We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001 …-track professors, but is ten percentage points lower than the share of women among assistant professors. Finally, within conference …

Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This …

that firms that "cast" their conference calls by disproportionately calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the …

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 …

analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …

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 …

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 …