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A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States
Emma Pierson, Camelia Simoiu, Jan Overgoor +4
To assess racial disparities in police interactions with the public, we compiled and analyzed a dataset detailing over 60 million state patrol stops conducted in 20 U.S. states bet…
Fast Threshold Tests for Detecting Discrimination
Emma Pierson, Sam Corbett-Davies, Sharad Goel
Threshold tests have recently been proposed as a useful method for detecting bias in lending, hiring, and policing decisions. For example, in the case of credit extensions, these t…
Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness
Sam Corbett-Davies, Emma Pierson, Avi Feller +2
Algorithms are now regularly used to decide whether defendants awaiting trial are too dangerous to be released back into the community. In some cases, black defendants are substant…