4 papers
Revisiting Fairness Impossibility with Endogenous Behavior
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, John W. Patty
In many real-world settings, institutions can and do adjust the consequences attached to algorithmic classification decisions, such as the size of fines, sentence lengths, or benef…
Classification in Equilibrium: Structure of Optimal Decision Rules
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, John W. Patty
This paper characterizes optimal classification when individuals adjust their behavior in response to the classification rule. We model the interaction between a designer and a pop…
Accuracy Is (Generically) Bad For Compliance
John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn
We demonstrate that the set of cost distributions under which the optimal strategy for maximizing compliance (or more generally, effort) in a binary choice environment is identical…
Optimal classification with endogenous behavior
Elizabeth Maggie Penn
I consider the problem of classifying individual behavior in a simple setting of outcome performativity where the behavior the algorithm seeks to classify is itself dependent on th…