Regression with race-modifiers: towards equity and interpretability
Kowal, D. R.
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The pervasive effects of structural racism and racial discrimination are well-established and offer strong evidence that the effects of many important variables on health and life outcomes vary by race. Alarmingly, standard practices for statistical regression analysis introduce racial biases into the estimation and presentation of these race-modified effects. We advocate abundance-based constraints (ABCs) to eliminate these racial biases. ABCs offer a remarkable invariance property: estimates and inference for main effects are nearly unchanged by the inclusion of race-modifiers. Thus, quantitative researchers can estimate race-specific effects "for free"--without sacrificing parameter interpretability, equitability, or statistical efficiency. The benefits extend to prominent statistical learning techniques, especially regularization and selection. We leverage these tools to estimate the joint effects of environmental, social, and other factors on 4th end-of-grade readings scores for students in North Carolina (n = 27, 638) and identify race-modified effects for racial (residential) isolation, PM2.5 exposure, and mothers age at birth.
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