Algorithmic recommendations and human discretion

V Angelova, WS Dobbie, C Yang - 2023 - nber.org
Human decision-makers frequently override the recommendations generated by predictive
algorithms, but it is unclear whether these discretionary overrides add valuable private …

Implicit bias training for police: Evaluating impacts on enforcement disparities.

RE Worden, CJ Najdowski, SJ McLean… - Law and Human …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The purpose of this study was to estimate the behavioral impacts of training police
officers in implicit bias awareness and management. Hypotheses: Training police in implicit …

Skills and Human Capital in the Labor Market

DJ Deming, MI Silliman - 2024 - nber.org
This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a
particular focus on higher-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review …

Sexual harassment in public spaces and police patrols: Experimental evidence from urban india

S Amaral, G Borker, N Fiala, A Kumar, N Prakash… - 2023 - nber.org
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police
patrol program on sexual harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration …

Driving While Broke: The Role of Class Signals in Police Discretion

JL Knode, TM Carter, SE Wolfe - Justice Quarterly, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is ongoing debate over the latitude of discretion police officers have when conducting
stops and searches. While necessary due to resource limitations and need for individualized …

Predicting police misconduct

G Stoddard, DJ Fitzpatrick, J Ludwig - 2024 - nber.org
Whether police misconduct can be prevented depends partly on whether it can be predicted.
We show police misconduct is partially predictable and that estimated misconduct risk is not …

Officer-involved killings of unarmed Black people and racial disparities in sleep health

AS Venkataramani, EF Bair, J Bor… - JAMA internal …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Racial disparities in sleep health may mediate the broader health outcomes of
structural racism. Objective To assess changes in sleep duration in the Black population …

Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers

D Harris, O Borcan, D Serra, H Telli, B Schettini… - 2022 - ora.ox.ac.uk
We investigate whether ethics and integrity training can improve values, attitudes and
behavior of police officers. We conducted a field experiment in Ghana, where we randomly …

How behavioral science interventions can disrupt the cycle of bias in AI-assisted police work

AG Dittmann, KSH Dobson… - Behavioral Science & …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
When making decisions in high-pressure situations, police officers experience cognitive
demands and often lack access to data about the people with whom they are interacting …

Contingent belief updating

C Aina, A Amelio, K Brütt - 2023 - econstor.eu
We study how contingent thinking-that is, reasoning through all possible contingencies
without knowing which is realized-affects belief updating. According to the Bayesian …