For a given budget, location, panel size, and unique quotas, how can we design a recruitment plan that will maximize response rates and the representativeness of the sample?

Develops an optimization framework for selecting alternate participants for citizens’ assemblies to minimize expected demographic imbalance when dropouts occur. The method uses historical data to estimate dropout likelihood and provides theoretical guarantees regarding sample requirements and est...

Panelot is a not-for-profit sortition tool that facilitates random citizen selection for deliberative panels in a way that is representative of the population and fair to volunteers. It operates through a two-step process: first generating a fair distribution across multiple panels meeting demogr...