Iaryczower, Matias and Shi, Xiaoxia and Shum, Matthew (2018) Can Words Get in the Way? The Effect of Deliberation in Collective Decision Making. Journal of Political Economy, 126 (2). pp. 688-734. ISSN 0022-3808. doi:10.1086/696228. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180418-093907358
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Abstract
We quantify the effect of deliberation on the decisions of US appellate courts. We estimate a model in which strategic judges communicate before casting their votes and then compare the probability of mistakes in the court with deliberation with a counterfactual of no communication. The model has multiple equilibria, and preferences and information parameters are only partially identified. We find that there is a range of parameters in the identified set—when judges tend to disagree ex ante or their private information is imprecise—in which deliberation can be beneficial; otherwise, deliberation reduces the effectiveness of the court.
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| Additional Information: | © 2018 by The University of Chicago. Online: Mar. 07, 2018. We are grateful to Maria Goltsman, Navin Kartik, Alessandro Lizzeri, Adam Meirowitz, Greg Pavlov, Alejandro Robinson Cortes, Leeat Yariv, and seminar participants at Columbia, Emory, Erasmus University’s Workshop in Political Economy 2012, Higher School of Economics (Russia), New York University, Princeton, Seoul National, Singapore Management, Sogang, Stanford (Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics 2012), University College London, Chicago, Montréal, Penn, Western Ontario, and Washington University for comments. Financial support from National Science Foundation grants SES-1061326 (Iaryczower) and SES-1061266 (Shum) is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Alex Bolton, Benjamin Johnson, and Emerson Melo for excellent research assistance. Data are available in a zip file. | ||||||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/696228 | ||||||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Matias Iaryczower, Xiaoxia Shi, and Matthew Shum, "Can Words Get in the Way? The Effect of Deliberation in Collective Decision Making," Journal of Political Economy 126, no. 2 (April 2018): 688-734. https://doi.org/10.1086/696228 | ||||||||||||
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| Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 18 Apr 2018 21:14 | ||||||||||||
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