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Incorporating Equity into Decision-Support Models

Society
United States
Started October 20, 2026

This dissertation develops and applies an analytical architecture for integrating equity into quantitative decision-support models

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Equity-focused decision-support models may lead to conflicts among stakeholders with competing interests.
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Equity-focused models risk substituting ideological preferences for technical rigour and sound evidence.
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Decision-support models must explicitly incorporate equity metrics to ensure fair resource allocation.
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Agencies should publish the distributional impacts of decisions across income, race, geography, and other demographic lines as routine practice.
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Decision-support models must show how different groups are affected by policy choices, whether or not equity is the primary goal.
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Equity should be a secondary consideration in decision-support models, not a primary driver of outcomes.
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Policymakers should understand which populations benefit and which lose under each policy option before deciding.
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Equity considerations should be balanced with efficiency in decision-support models to achieve optimal outcomes.
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Decision-support models should prioritize equity in public health to address systemic disparities.
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Quantitative decision models should explicitly measure and optimise for equity outcomes, not treat equity as a side constraint.
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