3 papers
stat.AP2024
Automated Reminders Reduce Incarceration for Missed Court Dates: Evidence from a Text Message Experiment
Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Joe Nudell +4
Millions of Americans must attend mandatory court dates every year. To boost appearance rates, jurisdictions nationwide are increasingly turning to automated reminders, but previou…
cs.LG2024
Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making
Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu +2
In an attempt to make algorithms fair, the machine learning literature has largely focused on equalizing decisions, outcomes, or error rates across race or gender groups. To illust…
stat.AP2024
Mitigating Included- and Omitted-Variable Bias in Estimates of Disparate Impact
Jongbin Jung, Sam Corbett-Davies, Johann D. Gaebler +2
Managers, employers, policymakers, and others often seek to understand whether decisions are biased against certain groups. One popular analytic strategy is to estimate disparities…