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Cory McCartan
Description: Cory McCartan is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Penn State University. He works on methodological and applied problems in the social sciences, including legislative redistricting, racial disparities, and missing data.
Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed (2023). With Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho, and Kosuke Imai. Software and replication code ; Poster
The estimation of racial disparities in health care, financial services, voting, and other contexts is often hampered by the lack of individual-level racial information in administrative records. In many cases, the law prohibits the collection of such information to prevent direct racial discrimination. As a result, many analysts have adopted Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), which combines individual names and addresses with the Census data to predict race. Although BISG tends to produce well-cal
Individual and Differential Harm in Redistricting (2022). Under Review. With Christopher T. Kenny. Replication code
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Cory McCartan