Exemplary Paper Award for Hoda Heidari, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, and Karen Levy at ACM EC 21

Weighing the likelihood of an outcome, or the nature of risk, is decidedly difficult — especially when those decisions involve complex systems. How should a policymaker compare the health risks of concentrating pollution in a local environment versus diffusing the pollution more globally? How should societies allocate scarce resources like...