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2 days ago · Over the past few weeks I’ve read Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell, On the Clock: What Low Wage Work Did to Me and How It Makes America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.
5 days ago · See, e.g., Joshua B. Fischman and Max M. Schanzenbach, Racial Disparities Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The Role of Judicial Discretion and Mandatory Minimums, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 9 (4): 729–64 (2012); David S. Abrams., Marianne Bertrand, and Sendhil Mullainathan, Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
1 day ago · The range of prominent scholars he has advised includes multiple Clark Medal winners (Steven Levitt, PhD 1994; Raj Chetty, PhD 2003), multiple MacArthur “genius” award winners (Sendhil Mullainathan, PhD 1998; Heidi Williams, PhD 2010), dozens of scholars who are now tenured faculty members at top five universities in the US and worldwide and numerous social scientists who hold leadership ...
5 days ago · Abstract. Academic engagement with industry is now practiced by more scientists than ever before. Despite broad consensus regarding the positive effect on senior and successful scientists’ research productivity, its effects on early career scientists have remained insufficiently investigated.
5 days ago · There is still little guidance on the suitability of specific fair-ml techniques across contexts. While a growing body of work considers the circumstances and moral frameworks under which the use of particular quantitative fairness metrics can be justified (Friedler et al., 2016; Heidari et al., 2019; Card and Smith, 2020; Leben, 2020a; Binns, 2020; Hertweck et al., 2021; Hedden, 2021), the ...
3 days ago · Sendhil Mullainathan (B.A. 1993) – behavioral economist at Harvard, co-founder of MIT Poverty Action Lab, MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" recipient (2002), Infosys Prize (social sciences) recipient (2018)
5 days ago · INTRODUCTION. Police interactions with the general public can shape community attitudes towards the police, influencing their ability to prevent and solve crimes (e.g. Jefferson and Walker 1993; Weitzer and Tuch 2002; Brunson and Miller 2006; Sharp and Atherton 2007; Tankebe 2012; Miller and D’Souza 2016; Slocum and Wiley 2018; Braga et al. 2019; Brunson and Wade 2019).
