It was great to be part of this effort lead by Alex Chohlas-Wood w/Madison Coots, Joseph Nudell, Julian Nyarko Todd Rogers and Sharad Goel. It’s exciting to see text messages can reduce incarceration due to missed court dates— adding evidence to the benefit of these low cost interventions.

.Computational Policy Lab is testing behaviorally-informed reminders to reduce pretrial incarceration. Early results show a 20% drop in pre-trial incarceration. Hear from the Public Defenders' office about why this work is so important: impact.stanford.edu/article/can-te…

Our paper "The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness" — long in draft form — is now out in JMLR! We show common error rate measures are often misleading indicators of algorithmic bias, and argue it's better to evaluate algorithms by looking at their effects. 5harad.com/papers/fair-ml…

In a short companion piece (in Nature Computational Science), Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Julian Nyarko and I work to distill the core technical ideas in a way that we hope is more accessible to a broad audience of practitioners and policymakers. 5harad.com/papers/designi…

The Stanford University Report just featured our research on using automated reminders to reduce pretrial incarceration — alongside two other terrific Stanford Impact Labs funded efforts thinking about how to achieve both research impact and social impact! news.stanford.edu/report/2023/11…

Postdoc alert! Ideal for a social or behavioral scientist interested in new evaluation methods (virtual reality simulations) and public policy (criminal justice)! Come work w/me & Center for Innovations in Community Safety Evan Barba apply.interfolio.com/141988

Paul Reeping Nicole Manhattan Institute Rachel Meltzer TWU Local 100 MTA Cutting through the polarizing debate about subway safety, professors Aaron Chalfin Alex Chohlas-Wood Morgan C Williams Jr take a look at the data and conclude that New Yorkers may even be safer underground than on the streets. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/under…