4 papers
The Impact of Differential Feature Under-reporting on Algorithmic Fairness
Nil-Jana Akpinar, Zachary C. Lipton, Alexandra Chouldechova
Predictive risk models in the public sector are commonly developed using administrative data that is more complete for subpopulations that more greatly rely on public services. In…
Estimating the Likelihood of Arrest from Police Records in Presence of Unreported Crimes
Riccardo Fogliato, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Zachary Lipton +3
Many important policy decisions concerning policing hinge on our understanding of how likely various criminal offenses are to result in arrests. Since many crimes are never reporte…
Homophily and Incentive Effects in Use of Algorithms
Riccardo Fogliato, Sina Fazelpour, Shantanu Gupta +2
As algorithmic tools increasingly aid experts in making consequential decisions, the need to understand the precise factors that mediate their influence has grown commensurately. I…
On the Validity of Arrest as a Proxy for Offense: Race and the Likelihood of Arrest for Violent Crimes
Riccardo Fogliato, Alice Xiang, Zachary Lipton +2
The risk of re-offense is considered in decision-making at many stages of the criminal justice system, from pre-trial, to sentencing, to parole. To aid decision makers in their ass…