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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
We will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to identify the causal impact of our intervention on pretrial release rates and pretrial good conduct rates (on average and on racial disparities).
Randomization and Data Collection: We will use a two-step randomization plan. The first step is to randomize judges into two mutually exclusive groups following a short planning stage. The first group of judges will continue making decisions under the status quo and will serve as the control group for the study. The second group of judges will receive all three interventions and will serve as the main treatment group for the study. Judges will remain in these two groups for twenty-four to thirty months in total, depending on final sample size, which will maximize our statistical power for estimating the impact of the full set of interventions on medium-run outcomes. Additional groups of judges who join the experiment at a later time period will also be randomized into the treatment or control group based on the two-step randomization plan. Half of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the treatment group and the other half to the control group. In the case of an odd number, N, of additional judges and an odd number of original judges, ⌊N/2⌋+1 of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the group with a smaller group of original judges and ⌊N/2⌋ of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the larger group of original judges. Both during and after the intervention, we will obtain publicly-available administrative data on pretrial release decisions and good conduct outcomes at the case level.
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After
We will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to identify the causal impact of our intervention on pretrial release rates and pretrial good conduct rates (on average and on racial disparities).
Randomization and Data Collection: We will use a two-step randomization plan. The first step is to randomize judges into two mutually exclusive groups following a short planning stage. The first group of judges will continue making decisions under the status quo and will serve as the control group for the study. The second group of judges will receive the intervention and will serve as the main treatment group for the study. Judges will remain in these two groups for twenty-four to thirty months in total, depending on final sample size, which will maximize our statistical power for estimating the impact of the full set of interventions on medium-run outcomes. Additional groups of judges who join the experiment at a later time period will also be randomized into the treatment or control group based on the two-step randomization plan. Half of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the treatment group and the other half to the control group. In the case of an odd number, N, of additional judges and an odd number of original judges, ⌊N/2⌋+1 of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the group with a smaller group of original judges and ⌊N/2⌋ of the additional judges will be randomly assigned to the larger group of original judges. Both during and after the intervention, we will obtain publicly-available administrative data on pretrial release decisions and good conduct outcomes at the case level.
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