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Feature: How U.S. Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes

Maya Sen assesses the institutional and compositional features of U.S. federal courts that tend to bias them toward conservative policy outcomes.

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Feature: The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain

Dani Rodrik and Gordon Hanson document how vertical policy supply chains distribute resources from federal and state governments to recipients at the local level.

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Feature: How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?

Lotem Bassan-Nygate theorizes that by shaming human rights violators abroad, governments can improve their image at home but may encourage tolerance toward certain domestic violations.

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Feature: Thinking (about Peace Science) in Time

Erica Chenoweth speaks to colleagues in the peace science community, reflecting on the world events that have shaped their scholarship and how researchers might think about the current geopolitical moment.

Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates

Coots, Madison, Kristin Linn, Sharad Goel, Amol Navathe, and Ravi Parikh. "Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates." Annual Review of Public Health (forthcoming).

Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor

Ladin, Keren, John Cuddeback, O. Kenrik Duru, Sharad Goel, et al. "Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor." NPJ Digital Medicine 7.290 (2024).

The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants

Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel. "The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants." Scientific Reports 14 (2024).

The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants

Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay C. Page, and Sharad Goel. "The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-023, August 2023.

Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening

Coots, Madison, Soroush Saghafian, David Kent, and Sharad Goel. "Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening." June 2023.

Popular Support for Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Resource Allocation: A Case Study in Online Advertising to Increase Welfare Program Awareness

Koenecke, Allison, Eric Giannella, Robb Willer, and Sharad Goel. "Popular Support for Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Resource Allocation: A Case Study in Online Advertising to Increase Welfare Program Awareness." April 17, 2023.

Racial bias as a multi-stage, multi-actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention

Grossman, Joshua, Julian Nyarko, and Sharad Goel. "Racial bias as a multi-stage, multi-actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1 (March 2023): 86-133.

Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data

Cai, William, Johann Gaebler, Justin Kaashoek, Lisa Pinals, Samuel Madden, and Sharad Goel. "Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data." PNAS Nexus 1.4 (September 2022).

A Causal Framework for Observational Studies of Discrimination

Gaebler, Johann, William Cai, Guillaume Basse, Ravi Shroff, Sharad Goel, and Jennifer Hill. "A Causal Framework for Observational Studies of Discrimination." Statistics and Public Policy 9.1 (2022): 26-48.

Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making

Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu, Emma Brunskill, and Sharad Goel. "Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making." February 2022.

Breaking Taboos in Fair Machine Learning: An Experimental Study

Nyarko, Julian, Sharad Goel, and Roseanna Sommers. "Breaking Taboos in Fair Machine Learning: An Experimental Study." EAAMO '21: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021.

Surveilling Surveillance: Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data

Sheng, Hao, Keniel Yao, and Sharad Goel. "Surveilling Surveillance: Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data." Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, 221-230.

Blind Justice: Algorithmically Masking Race in Charging Decisions

Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Joe Nudell, Keniel Yao, Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, Julian Nyarko, and Sharad Goel. "Blind Justice: Algorithmically Masking Race in Charging Decisions." Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery, July 2021, 35-45.

The accuracy, equity, and jurisprudence of criminal risk assessment

Goel, Sharad, Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Skeem, and Christopher Slobogin. "The accuracy, equity, and jurisprudence of criminal risk assessment." Research handbook on Big Data Law. Ed. Roland Vogl. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 9-28.