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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 …
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In this paper we analyze the problem of whether and/or when to replace a leader (agent) when no monetary rewards are available, and it is the leader's competence rather than effort that is being evaluated. The only decisions that the leader takes over time are whether to undertake risky but...
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This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …
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analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...
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decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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posit that decision makers make errors of judgement (for example, they sometimes select bad projects while rejecting good … extensions of our approach. Among them are the analysis of internal structure of firms, selection of managers (by other managers …
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