Megan T. Stevenson

“Pretrial Detention and the Value of Liberty” (with Sandra G. Mayson).
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“Algorithmic Social Engineering” (with Bo Cowgill), (2020).
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“Misdemeanors by the Numbers” (with Sandra Mayson), 61 B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020).
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“Algorithmic Risk Assessment and the Double-Edged Sword of Youth” (with Christopher Slobogin).
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“Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes,” 34 J.L. Econ. & Org. 511 (2018).
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“Assessing Risk Assessment in Action,” 103 Minn. L. Rev. 303 (2018).
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“The Scale of Misdemeanor Justice” (with Sandra Mayson), 98 B.U. L. Rev. 731 (2018).
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“The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention” (with Paul Heaton and Sandra Mayson), 69 Stan. L. Rev. 711 (2017).
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“Breaking Bad: Mechanisms of Social Influence and the Path to Criminality in Juvenile Jails,” 99 Rev. of Econ. & Statistics 824 (2017).
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Working Papers:

“Jailed While Presumed Innocent: The Demobilizing Effects of Pretrial Detention” (with Anne McDonough, Ted Enamorado, Tali Mendelberg)

“Bail, Jail, and Pretrial Misconduct: The Influence of Prosecutors” (with Aurelie Ouss)
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“Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans” (with Jennifer Doleac)
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“A Decomposition of Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention” 

“The Risk the Justifies Detention” (with Sandra Mayson)

“Tests of Random Assignment to Peers in the Face of Mechanical Negative Correlation: An Evaluation of Four Techniques” 

“Better Bargaining: Using Machine Learning to Decrease Sentence Disparities” (with David Abrams, Aurelie Ouss, Colin Sullivan and Brian Collopy)