money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule …. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in the spirit of Condorcet, a symmetric composition of committees is not always … committees. However, in the special case of only two skill levels, it is optimal to compose the committees evenly. …

We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …

real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is …