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Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the … interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a deviation from profit maximization. Future … slippages between statistical notions of bias and misclassification errors, economic notions of profit, and normative notions of …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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