Simone Zhang
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Article
What is the Bureaucratic Counterfactual? Categorical Versus Algorithmic Prioritization in U.S. Social Policy
By: Rebecca Johnson, Simone Zhang
Appeared In: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
This paper outlines the benefits and drawbacks of using predictive models to allocate scarce social resources relative to social policy's dominant status quo approach, manual category-based prioritization.