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Scarcity and Predictive Uncertainty: Implications for Societal Resource Allocation
Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler, Sanmay Das
An emerging literature examines the critical question of when and how prediction can be useful in allocating scarce societal resources. We examine a novel variant of this question:…
Can LLMs Rank? A Tale of Triads and Triage
Gaurab Pokharel, Shafkat Farabi, Patrick J. Fowler +1
From housing allocation for households experiencing homelessness to triage in emergency departments, LLMs are increasingly being considered as judges of consequential decisions tha…
Budgeting Discretion: Theory and Evidence on Street-Level Decision-Making
Gaurab Pokharel, Sanmay Das, Patrick J. Fowler
Street-level bureaucrats, such as caseworkers and border guards routinely face the dilemma of whether to follow rigid policy or exercise discretion based on professional judgement.…