3 papers
econ.GN2025
Choosing and Using Information in Evaluation Decisions
Katherine B. Coffman, Scott Kostyshak, Perihan O. Saygin
We use a controlled experiment to study how information acquisition impacts candidate evaluations. We provide evaluators with group-level information on performance and the opportu…
econ.GN2025
Down to the Last Strike: The Effect of the Jury Lottery on Criminal Convictions
Scott Kostyshak, Neel U. Sukhatme
How much does luck matter to a criminal defendant in a jury trial? We use rich data on jury selection to causally estimate how parties who are randomly assigned a less favorable ju…
econ.EM2018
Shape-Enforcing Operators for Point and Interval Estimators
Xi Chen, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val +2
A common problem in econometrics, statistics, and machine learning is to estimate and make inference on functions that satisfy shape restrictions. For example, distribution functio…