Paid sick leave is essential for worker well-being and the public health, yet the United States does not have a federal law guaranteeing…
We document a sharp rise in gunshots coupled with declining 911 call volume across thirteen major US cities in the aftermath of the murder…
In this paper, we consider the statistical foundations for empirical tests of disparate impact. We begin by considering a recent, popular…
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by…
In this working paper, Stephen Goldsmith and Ryan Streeter argue that the Republican Party is philosophically adrift, and it has been for a…
Human decision-makers frequently override the recommendations generated by predictive algorithms, but it is unclear whether these…
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered…
In studies of discrimination, one popular strategy is to estimate disparities after adjusting for observed covariates, typically with a…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya…