Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence

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Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments (2016, background): “…we would like to note that there is a large body of literature showing that data-driven risk assessment instruments tend to be more accurate than professional human judgements [13, 14], and investigating whether human-driven decisions are themselves prone to exhibiting racial bias [15, 16].”
Fast Threshold Tests for Detecting Discrimination (2017, background): “The primary goal of such work is to determine whether decision-makers apply different standards to groups defined by race, gender, or other protected attributes—what economists call taste-based discrimination (Becker, 1957).”