no code implementations • 1 Jun 2022 • Daniel Björkegren, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Samsun Knight
When a policy prioritizes one person over another, is it because they benefit more, or because they are preferred?
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2022 • Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock, Omowunmi Folajimi-Senjobi, Jacqueline Mauro, Suraj R. Nair
Digital loans have exploded in popularity across low and middle income countries, providing short term, high interest credit via mobile phones.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2020 • Daniel Björkegren, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Samsun Knight
An increasing number of decisions are guided by machine learning algorithms.
1 code implementation • ICML 2020 • Esther Rolf, Max Simchowitz, Sarah Dean, Lydia T. Liu, Daniel Björkegren, Moritz Hardt, Joshua Blumenstock
Our theoretical results characterize the optimal strategies in this class, bound the Pareto errors due to inaccuracies in the scores, and show an equivalence between optimal strategies and a rich class of fairness-constrained profit-maximizing policies.