. Counterfactual analysis shows that committees add value through aggregating private assessments, but that gains to larger committees … their assessments also have lower precision, mixed committees may not be optimal. …

committees. Subjects get private signals about the state of world, send binary messages, and finally vote under either majority … reasoning), but strikingly overestimate their pivotality when voting (contradicting plain lying aversion). That is, committees …

This paper analyzes truthtelling incentives in pre-vote communication in heterogeneous committees. We generalize the …

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. …

This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-makingprocesses in a world where agents must … be motivated to collect information. Committees improvethe quality of decision-making by providing information and by …