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,…
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Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an…
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship…
Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American…
In designing risk assessment algorithms, many scholars promote a “kitchen sink” approach, reasoning that more information yields more…