Fairness in Contextual Resource Allocation Systems: Metrics and Incompatibility Results

no code implementations • 4 Dec 2022 • Nathanael Jo, Bill Tang, Kathryn Dullerud, Sina Aghaei, Eric Rice, Phebe Vayanos

We study critical systems that allocate scarce resources to satisfy basic needs, such as homeless services that provide housing.

counterfactual Fairness

Learning Resource Allocation Policies from Observational Data with an Application to Homeless Services Delivery

no code implementations • 25 Jan 2022 • Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos, Kathryn Dullerud, Eric Rice

The resources are assigned in a first come first served (FCFS) fashion according to an eligibility structure that encodes the resource types that serve each queue.

Causal Inference Fairness +1