no code implementations • 27 Jan 2024 • Tasfia Mashiat, Alex DiChristofano, Patrick J. Fowler, Sanmay Das
We show that the risk scores are, in fact, useful, enabling a theoretical team of caseworkers to reach more eviction-prone properties in the same amount of time, compared to outreach policies that are either neighborhood-based or focus on buildings with a recent history of evictions.
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2023 • Gaurab Pokharel, Sanmay Das, Patrick J. Fowler
When they do apply discretion to assign households to more intensive interventions, the marginal benefits to those households are significantly higher than would be expected if the households were chosen at random; there is no similar reduction in marginal benefit to households that are discretionarily allocated less intensive interventions, suggesting that caseworkers are improving outcomes using their knowledge.
