Using the multiple Emmy Award-winning television game show, Cash Cab, as a pseudo-laboratory, we find that the presence (or addition) of one powerful or influential female in (or to) a small (previously homogeneous male) group significantly reduces the group’s willingness to take qualitatively...

This paper considers a situation in which students with heterogeneous ability types are grouped into different competitions for performance ranking. A planner can group the students and design prize structure in each competition in order to maximize the weighted total performance subject to a...

We develop a framework of group corruption via back-door negotiations between an outside initiator and an authority of decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and determine under such a structure how bargaining...

All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...

Goal-setting is a common practice to motivate effort. However, little is known about the effectiveness of group goal difficulty on shirking depends on team dynamics, such as group identity. We study the question under a mixed incentives setting where a combination of a tournament incentive and a...

Collective intelligence (CI) captures a team’s ability to work together across a wide range of tasks and can vary significantly between teams. Extant work demonstrates that the level of collective attention a team develops has an important influence on their level of CI. An important question,...

Team-managed mutual funds exhibit a disposition effect: they are reluctant to sell losers relative to winners. This propensity is costly as winners sold outperform losers held by 56bp during the next quarter relative to stocks with similar size, book-to-market, and momentum characteristics....

Even in school districts with relatively permissive approaches to defining and embodying gender, the identities of transgender and gender variant students are often governed by complex regulatory protocols. Ensuring that a student is able to live their gender at school can involve input from a...

A correct aggregation of stakeholders’ preferences is a vital aspect in solving problems associated with natural resources. In fact, there is no one solution that permits the incorporation of those preferences into techniques that, in turn, may address multiple objectives in the management of...