Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation

Robert Bornholz and James Heckman

No 10946, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the economic and statistical foundations of proposed tests for discrimination. We focus on extension of disparate impact doctrine to new domains.

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Date: 2004-12
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Published as 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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