More than 40% of US high school students have access to Naviance, a proprietary tool designed to guide college search and application…
To what extent do partisan media influence political attitudes and behavior? Although recent methodological advancements have improved…
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by…
In studies of discrimination, one popular strategy is to estimate disparities after adjusting for observed covariates, typically with a…
The field of fair machine learning aims to ensure that decisions guided by algorithms are equitable. Over the last decade, several formal,…
LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal…
Predictive algorithms are now commonly used to distribute society’s resources and sanctions. But these algorithms can entrench and…
Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Millions of people in the U.S. every year are required to attend mandatory court dates as their cases proceed through the criminal legal…