Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation

Robert Bornholz & James J. Heckman
Working Paper 10946
DOI 10.3386/w10946
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This paper examines the economic and statistical foundations of proposed tests for discrimination. We focus on extension of disparate impact doctrine to new domains.

  • Robert Bornholz and James J. Heckman, "Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation," NBER Working Paper 10946 (2004), https://doi.org/10.3386/w10946.

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Bornholz, Robert and James J. Heckman. "Measuring Disparate Imparct and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48, 1 (2005): S95-S122.

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