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not to be true there is no significant difference in average decision lags. Furthermore, and also surprisingly, there is … no significant difference in the decision lag when groups decisions are made by majority rule versus when they are made …
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A central feature of dynamic collective decision-making is that the rules that govern the procedures for future … decision-making and the distribution of political power across players are determined by current decisions. For example … dynamic collective decision-making: (1) a social arrangement is made stable by the instability of alternative arrangements …
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We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is …
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Decision regulations help long-run preferences prevail by allowing consumers to partially commit to their long-run goals …, making it harder for a momentary impulse to reverse past decisions. In the cigarette market, examples of Early Decision … Early Decision regulations demonstrates that Early Decisions are optimal when consumer preferences are heterogeneous …
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Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to...
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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This paper combines a model of parental school choice with randomized school lotteries in order to understand the effects of being assigned to a first-choice school on academic outcomes. We outline a simple framework in which those who place the highest weight on academics when choosing a school...
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In 1994 the city of Tel Aviv replaced its existing school integration program based on inter-district busing, with a new program that allowed students to choose freely between schools in and out of district. This paper explores the impact of this program on high school outcomes while...
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based on fairness, and was a critical argument in Boston's decision to change the mechanism. We then discuss the …
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Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy...
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