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Introduction to the Symposium on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

We live in the digital century.

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.

Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data

Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged traffic infractions, including a combination of speeding and eq

Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States

Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs but effective solutions require the redistribution of vaccines, technology, and other scarce resources from h

Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized and appropriated unprecedented spending and tax expenditures to decarbonize the Americ

Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking about Citizenship on the US Census

Many topics social scientists study are sensitive in nature.

A multisource database tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the communities of Boston, MA, USA

A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work.

Adaptive Sampling Strategies to Construct Equitable Training Datasets

In domains ranging from computer vision to natural language processing, machine learning models have been shown to exhibit stark disparities, often performing worse for members of traditionally unders

When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact “At Scale”

Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning

Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is necessary but insuffic