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作者：Rittenhouse, Katherine; Putnam-Hornstein, Emily; Vaithianathan, Rhema
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Auckland University of Technology
摘要：Equity concerns are a primary constraint in the adoption of algorithms across various settings. We ask how providing decision-makers with a predictive risk model affects racial disparities in the context of the child protection system. We exploit the implementation of the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST), a tool that aims to help child protection workers decide which allegations of maltreatment to screen in for investigation. We find that the AFST reduced disparities in screening decisio...
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作者：Parker, Susan T.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：In the last decade, one of the most substantial changes to firearm policy is the widespread adoption of permitless concealed carry laws. Since 2015, more than 20 states have adopted a permitless carry law. Permitless carry laws allow firearm owners to carry a concealed handgun in public without first obtaining a license and undergoing a background check. This article estimates the causal impact of permitless carry laws on crime using stacked event study estimators. I find that violent crime in...
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作者：Bell, Elizabeth; Jilke, Sebastian
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Georgetown University
摘要：Administrative burden represents political choices embedded in policy design that affect how people perceive and experience government. While policymakers frequently invoke fraud prevention to justify imposing burdens in welfare programs, this rhetoric embodies an unacknowledged normative judgment about the relative costs of fraud and abuse versus program exclusion for eligible beneficiaries. This study quantifies this access-fraud trade-off in means-tested social welfare programs through a co...
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作者：Muniz-Fernandez, Alvaro
作者单位：University of Oviedo
摘要：Despite governments' efforts to raise fertility through family-support policies, birth rates continue to decline in high- and middle-income countries. Some policies designed for other purposes, however, may function as implicit childcare subsidies. This article examines the impact of reducing such support on fertility by exploiting a large-scale reform in Spain that shortened the elementary school day, shifting from full-day to morning-only sessions. Using provincial-level data from 1981 to 20...
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作者：Lehrer, Nadine
作者单位：Chatham University
