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Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening
Madison Coots, Soroush Saghafian, David Kent +1
There is active debate over whether to consider patient race and ethnicity when estimating disease risk. By accounting for race and ethnicity, it is possible to improve the accurac…
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…
Blocks as geographic discontinuities: The effect of polling place assignment on voting
Sabina Tomkins, Keniel Yao, Johann Gaebler +4
A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with identifying and traveling to a polling place.…
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…
A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States
Emma Pierson, Camelia Simoiu, Jan Overgoor +4
To assess racial disparities in police interactions with the public, we compiled and analyzed a dataset detailing over 60 million state patrol stops conducted in 20 U.S. states bet…
Simple rules for complex decisions
Jongbin Jung, Connor Concannon, Ravi Shroff +2
From doctors diagnosing patients to judges setting bail, experts often base their decisions on experience and intuition rather than on statistical models. While understandable, rel…