STRATA: A Name-and-Geography Race Inference Model for Fair Lending and Housing Equity Applications
arXiv:2504.21259v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate imputation of race and ethnicity (R&E) is essential for fair lending compliance under ECOA, HMDA, and the Community Reinvestment Act, where up to 15% of mortgage applications carry missing race data and regulated institutions bear responsibility for identifying disparities on those records. Existing proxy methods, including Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), exhibit systematic misclassification biases linked to socioeconomic s
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Regulation
Retrieved: 21 July 2026
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