Author: Nikola Banovic

Exposing Error in Poverty Management Technology: A Method for Auditing Government Benefits Screening Tools

This paper introduces a method for auditing benefits eligibility screening tools in four steps: 1) generate test households, 2) automatically populate screening questions with household information and retrieve determinations, 3) translate eligibility guidelines into computer code to generate ground truth determinations, and 4) identify conflicting determinations to detect errors.

• University of Michigan
• 2020