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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Disparate Impact"”.
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
An extensive body of literature has described the influence of neighborhood characteristics, including socio-economic deprivation, residential turnover, and racial/ethnic composition on gun crime. There have been limited efforts, however, to examine the extent to which these effects might vary …
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Disparate impact? An explorative review of recent changes in federal financial aid and its impact on minority college student enrollment trends
… at institutions of higher learning, and the impact of seemingly race-neutral Federal Financial Aid laws on the rate of declining enrollment. Scholars and legislators have just begun to discuss the discriminatory effect, intentional or not, that these laws may cause for students, and may thus …
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High Stakes Testing in Louisiana: An Analysis of the Disparate Impact on Black and White Eighth Grade Students and the Perspectives of Parents
<p>Standards based reform (SBR) measured by LEAP for the 21st Century (LEAP 21), the high stakes testing program in Louisiana, was explored across rural, suburban, and urban school community types. Differences in scores of Black and White eighth graders on LEAP 21 were analyzed using a multivariate …
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State Adolescent Reproductive Health Policies and their Impact on Teen Pregnancy Outcomes
… regression analysis, this study analyzes the impact of state-level adolescent reproductive health statutes on rates of teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion rates. This study also analyzes the impact that adolescent reproductive health policy outputs have had on teenage pregnancy outcomes …
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Bristol Place Neighborhood Plan: urban renewal in post-Kelo fiscal policy space
… has been the deleterious and disproportionate impact on African American residents of central city neighborhoods. The evolution of urban renewal policy represents a powerful manifestation of state-led land revalorization and socio-spatial stratification with such disparate impacts that the …
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Judgment Day: Big Data as the Big Decider
… or technology that could produce or reinforce disparate impact on individuals, how we engage in those deliberations modifies human judgment in some way. This thesis analyzes discourses around the implementation of Big Data our justice and finance systems. Through a risk assessment algorithm …
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Revenue policing, social control, and neoliberalism
… new phenomenon in the United States. Nor is the disparate impact of criminal justice activity on segments of U.S. society such as poor or homeless citizens, minority populations including black and latinx populations, and LGBTQ+ communities. Despite these findings, there has been little attention …
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Achieving Differential Privacy and Fairness in Machine Learning
… We develop a DPSGD-F algorithm to remove the disparate impact of differential privacy on model accuracy w.r.t. each group. </p>
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A critical tax theory approach to income tax relief for black-middle class taxpayers contributing to the support of family
… by South African taxpayers. That way, the disparate impact, and unintended consequences of the income tax benefits on those that use these benefits are avoided to an extent.
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On the role of natural laboratories and natural experiments in elucidating cloud-aerosol-climate interactions: A story of ships, smoke, and shutdowns
… properties were not detectably affected. The disparate impact is tied to differential economic impacts of the shutdown, in which transportation underwent much more drastic declines than industry and power generation. Anomalously warm and humid meteorological conditions and complex chemical …
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Methods to Improve Fairness and Accuracy in Machine Learning, with Applications to Financial Algorithms
… higher-mean counterparts. I prove that this disparate impact can occur even when sensitive data and group identifiers are omitted from training, but that it can be resolved if instead data are enriched. In particular, I demonstrate that data acquisition for lower-mean groups can increase …
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Essays on household finance and credit market regulation
… employers but controversial for its perceived disparate impact on racial minorities. Exploiting geographic, temporal, and job-level variation in which workers are covered by these bans, we analyze these bans' effects in two datasets: the panel dimension of the Current Population Survey (CPS); …