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Measuring Public Institutions and their Agents: Disparities and Agreement, with Application to Asylum Decisions in the U.S. Immigration Courts
Jonathan Auerbach, Michael E. Sobel
Public institutions derive their legitimacy from the professionalism and impartiality of their agents. In order to maintain standards of conduct, the performance of an agent is oft…
Scattered spring: How climate change disrupts the synchrony of biological events
Jonathan Auerbach, Andrew Gelman, E. M. Wolkovich
Many biological processes, including plant leafout and flowering, occur once cumulative temperatures reach a threshold, a relationship known as the thermal-sum model. In this way,…
Forecasting the Urban Skyline with Extreme Value Theory
Jonathan Auerbach, Phyllis Wan
The world's urban population is expected to grow fifty percent by the year 2050 and exceed six billion. The major challenges confronting cities, such as sustainability, safety, and…
A Hierarchical Bayes Approach to Adjust for Selection Bias in Before-After Analyses of Vision Zero Policies
Jonathan Auerbach, Christopher Eshleman, Rob Trangucci
American cities devote significant resources to the implementation of traffic safety countermeasures that prevent pedestrian fatalities. However, the before-after comparisons typic…
Age-aggregation bias in mortality trends
Andrew Gelman, Jonathan Auerbach
In a recent article in PNAS, Case and Deaton show a figure illustrating "a marked increase in the all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United…