The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles,…
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is…
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that…
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the…
Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe…
2022, Book: "Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is…
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and…
The Decriminalization and Policing Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…