Equality-Minded Treatment Choice

Equality-Minded Treatment Choice∗

The goal of many randomized experiments and quasi-experimental studies in economics is to inform policies that aim to raise incomes and reduce economic inequality. A policy maximizing the sum of individual incomes may not be desirable if it magnifies economic inequality and post-treatment redistribution of income is infeasible. This paper develops a method to estimate the optimal treatment assi...

Equality and Private Choice

Choice, Circumstance, and the Value of Equality

Symmetry: Between Indecision and Equality of Choice

The training of a neural network is an intricate balance between knowledge, randomness and symmetry. Symmetry can both be beneficial and detrimental to the learning process by respectively equality of choice and indecision. The paper provides a critical review and classification, and offers a constructive procedure to handle problem-indigenous symmetries.

An Equality Approach to Reproductive Choice: R. v. Sullivan

is more easily (though inaccurately) characterized as involving already privileged women who simply want to "have it all." Further, cases such as 35. R. v. Turpin, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1296, 1331. 36. Id. at 1331-32. 37. The Medical Practitioners Act, R.S.B.C. ch. 254, § 72(2)(d) (1979) defines the performance of midwifery as the practice of medicine. It is an offense to practice medicine if not reg...