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Mr Tsong-Hong Tenn (Stanford University): Equal Outcomes, Equal Treatment, and Meritocracy: A Trilemma
We study institutional policies assigning decisions based on a materially relevant characteristic correlated with a protected characteristic. We show that the three common anti-discrimination standards—equal outcomes, equal treatment, and meritocracy—form a trilemma: only trivial policies that treat all individuals equally satisfy all three standards, while any pair of the three standards permits non-trivial policies. We then characterize the optimal policies under each pair of the three standards. In the context of admissions where the decision is binary, these optimal policies become a two-t...
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Event Date：2026.08.27
[Register now] Mr Tsong-Hong Tenn (Stanford University): Equal Outcomes, Equal Treatment, and Meritocracy: A Trilemma We study institutional policies assigning decisions based on a materially relevant characteristic correlated with a protected characteristic. We show that the three common anti-discrimination standards—equal outcomes, equal treatment, and meritocracy—form a trilemma: only trivial policies that treat all individuals equally satisfy all three standards, while any pair of the three standards permits non-trivial policies. We then characterize the optimal policies under each pair of the three standards. In the context of admissions where the decision is binary, these optimal policies become a two-t... APL Event Date：2026.08.27