In observational studies of discrimination, the most common statistical approaches consider either the rate at which decisions are made (…
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
In Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, I offer both a conceptual analysis of legitimacy, the power-liability view, and a…
Previous research focused on popular US Supreme Court rulings expanding rights; however, less is known about rulings running against…
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways…
In this paper, we consider the statistical foundations for empirical tests of disparate impact. We begin by considering a recent, popular…
In almost every state, courts can jail those who fail to pay fines, fees, and other court debts—even those resulting from traffic or other…
In studies of discrimination, one popular strategy is to estimate disparities after adjusting for observed covariates, typically with a…
How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya…
The field of fair machine learning aims to ensure that decisions guided by algorithms are equitable. Over the last decade, several formal,…