Fall 2019

Jens Ludwig, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it hard for the legal system to know...

Jennifer Doleac, Associate Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University. We evaluate how adopting risk assessment tools (algorithmic predictions of future offending) affects sentencing, recidivism and race/age disparities for felony offenders. We find...

Julia Burdick-Will, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, Johns Hopkins University. High levels of school mobility are a problem in many urban districts. Many of these same districts are also dealing with high rates of violent crime. In this...