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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Maddalena Ronchi - Northwestern University
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nGender diversity and teams' decision-making\n\n\nAbstract:\nWe investig
 ate how gender composition of teams affects the decision-making process and
  the quality of decisions, using a novel database on the universe of colleg
 ial rulings from a sample of first- and second-instance criminal courts in 
 Italy. Leveraging the quasi-random allocation of both judges and cases to j
 udicial teams, we document three main findings. First, all-women teams have
  higher conviction rates than both mixed-gender and all-men teams. Second, 
 all-men teams converge faster to a decision than any other team composition
 . Third, decisions made by all-men teams are more likely to be incorrect, a
 s indicated by a higher likelihood of being appealed and subsequently overt
 urned, whereas no significant difference in decision quality is observed be
 tween mixed-gender and all-women teams. To explain these results, we propos
 e a framework of team decision-making where individuals differ in both pref
 erences and diagnostic skills. The observed relationship between conviction
  and overturn rates, together with the analysis of written judicial opinion
 s, supports the conclusion that variations in effort, rather than preferenc
 es, drive our results.\n
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