Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONWhat are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions…
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…
In the dominant paradigm for designing equitable machine learning systems, one works to ensure that model predictions satisfy various…
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and…
Many scholars, engineers, and policymakers believe that algorithmic fairness requires disregarding information about certain…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONCivil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes,…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
A prosecutor’s decision to charge or dismiss a criminal case is a particularly high-stakes choice. There is concern, however, that these…