Allegheny County supports research that increases knowledge, improves practice and informs policy in the field of human services. The following is a select list of publications and working papers from external researchers that use Allegheny County data.
- Angelova, Victoria and Dobbie, Will and Yang, Crystal, Algorithmic Recommendations and Human Discretion (September 2023). NBER Working Paper No. w31747, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4589709.
- Anwar, Shamena, Shawn Bushway, and John Engberg. “The impact of defense counsel at bail hearings.” Science Advances 9, no. 18 (2023): eade3909. https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.ade3909.
- De-Arteaga, Maria, Riccardo Fogliato, and Alexandra Chouldechova. “A Case for Humans-in-the-Loop: Decisions in the Presence of Erroneous Algorithmic Scores.” In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, edited by Regina Bernhaupt, Florian Mueller, David Verweij, and Josh Andres, 1–12. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08035.
- Eichmeyer, Sarah, and Christina Kent. “Parenthood in Poverty.” Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2022. https://saraheichm.github.io/saraheichmeyer/parenthood_in_poverty.pdf.
- Field, Anjalie, Amanda Coston, Nupoor Gandhi, Alexandra Chouldechova, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, David Steier, and Yulia Tsvetkov. 2023. Examining risk of racial biases in NLP tools for child protective services.” FAccT ‘23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. June 2023. Pages 1479–1492. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594094
- Grimon, Marie-Pascale. “Effects of the Child Protection System on Parents.” 2023. https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1744023/FULLTEXT02.pdf.
- Kawakami, Anna, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Hao-Fei Cheng, Logan Stapleton, Yanghuidi Cheng, Diana Qing, Adam Perer, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Haiyi Zhu, and Kenneth Holstein. “Improving Human-AI Partnerships in Child Welfare: Understanding Worker Practices, Challenges, and Desires for Algorithmic Decision Support.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, edited by Simone Barbosa, Cliff Lampe, Caroline Appert, David A. Shamma, Steven Drucker, Julie Williamson, and Koji Yatani, 1-18. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02310.
- Rittenhouse, Katherine, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, and Rhema Vaithianathan. “Algorithms, Humans and Racial Disparities in Child Protection Systems: Evidence from the Allegheny Family Screening Tool.” June 19, 2023. https://krittenh.github.io/katherine-rittenhouse.com/Algorithms%20Humans%20Racial%20Disparities.pdf.
- Stapleton, Logan, Min Hun Lee, Diana Qing, Marya Wright, Alexandra Chouldechova, Ken Holstein, Zhiwei Steven Wu, and Haiyi Zhu. “Imagining new futures beyond predictive systems in child welfare: A qualitative study with impacted stakeholders.” In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 1162-1177. 2022. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08928.
- Vaithianathan R, Putnam-Hornstein E, Chouldechova A, Benavides-Prado D, Berger R. Hospital Injury Encounters of Children Identified by a Predictive Risk Model for Screening Child Maltreatment Referrals: Evidence From the Allegheny Family Screening Tool. JAMA Pediatr.ics 2020;174(11):e202770. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2770. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2769075