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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…
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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…