On the use of outcome tests for detecting bias in decision making

IA Canay, M Mogstad, J Mountjoy - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The decisions of judges, lenders, journal editors, and other gatekeepers often lead to
significant disparities across affected groups. An important question is whether, and to what …

Testing economic models of discrimination in criminal justice

JB Gelbach - Available at SSRN 3784953, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper I derive several straightforward restrictions imposed by the Becker model of
discrimination in the highway search and pre-trial release contexts. I explain how these …