Research

Research is built on the Hopkins standard —analytically astute, evidence-based, and focused on solving public problems.

Christian Fong

Anticipating the consequences of filibuster reforms

“Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.”
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Nicholas Caputo, Gillian K. Hadfield, & Seth Lazar

Legal alignment for safe and ethical AI

How can legal rules, principles, and methods can be leveraged to address problems of alignment and inform the design of AI systems that operate safely and ethically?
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  1. A Presidency Transformed, A Democracy in Danger 

    A Presidency Transformed, A Democracy in Danger 

    In this article, we want to provide a summary of our book’s core argument and draw out its implications for Trump’s second term as well as for the years after Trump leaves center stage.

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  2. Identification and Inference for Algorithmic Frontiers with Selective Labels

    Identification and Inference for Algorithmic Frontiers with Selective Labels

    We obtain point identification and propose a debiased machine learning estimator, derive its asymptotic distribution, and show how this can be used to carry out inference for the FA-frontier.

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  3. Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.

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  4. Open Data Index for Schools (ODIS)

    A first-of-its-kind national research resource that links nearly 23,000 U.S. public high schools to the economic, educational, health, housing, and crime conditions of the communities they serve.

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  5. Social cognition and interpersonal violence

    Social cognition and interpersonal violence

    Social cognitions could play an important role in violence and may be modifiable through intervention.

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  6. Lost in Transition: How Trade Adjustment Assistance came up short (and where it succeeded)

    Lost in Transition: How Trade Adjustment Assistance came up short (and where it succeeded)

    By prioritizing robust reforms to our existing unemployment and workforce systems that benefit all workers — not just those who can prove that their jobs were eliminated due to AI — Congress can help the U.S. workforce retool without repeating the mistakes of TAA.

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  7. Insuring Risks Large and Small: The Role of Preferences and Limited Consideration

    Insuring Risks Large and Small: The Role of Preferences and Limited Consideration

    Limited consideration is indispensable for credible inference and welfare analysis of choice under risk in field environments.

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  8. Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

    Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

    While LLMs should be kept well clear of formal democratic decision-making processes, we think they can instead strengthen the informal public sphere—the arena that mediates between democratic governments and the polities that they serve, in which political communities seek information, form civic publics, and hold their leaders to account.

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  9. Problem Solving Criminal Justice

    Problem Solving Criminal Justice

    The period of problem solving in criminal justice appears to be over, driven by increasing public concern about crime and repolarization in response to social movement activism.

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