to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …

In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the … of risky decision making …

: Procedural decision making and skill performing procedures. Higher procedural skill increases the use of intensive procedures … across the board, while better decision making results in fewer intensive procedures for the low risk, but more for the high … can be identified using administrative data and that improving decision making would reduce C-section rates by 15.5% in …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …