management position. However, if non-contractible managerial decision rights give rise to private benefits and preference … managerial decision rights and performance-based promotions leads to a situation often referred to as the Peter principle … performance-based promotions and restricting managerial decision rights. …

Existing theoretical and experimental studies have established that unanimity is a poor decision rule for promoting … responsibility for the committee's decision is equally distributed across all agents. We test our predictions in a controlled … are ultimately more likely to make the optimal decision. Idiosyncratic payoffs such as a moral bias thus present a …

This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about … objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters … voters' intrinsic preferences or because of rigidities in the political process. The theory predicts that providing mixed …

This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of …

Actors in various settings have been increasingly relying on algorithmic tools to support their decision-making. Much … - decision-makers cannot verify the quality of such goods, even after "consuming" them. Based on this finding, we test two … algorithm, it remarkably decreases human decision-making performance. In the second treatment, we reveal the task's correct …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household …-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …

decision, and could thus explain part of the cross-country differences in homeownership rates. To isolate the effect of …-versus-buy decision. …