1. Gender and Behavioural Biases in Team Decision Making: Evidence from a Monetary Policy Experiment (with Colin Green, Jacopo Magnani, and Yabin Wang)

Presented at SES 2026; COPE 2025; the 17th Nordic Conference in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Abstract: We study how gender and behavioral biases shape group decision-making in a monetary policy context through a laboratory experiment. In the in-lab experiment, participants set interest rates under varying economic conditions to stabilize inflation and unemployment. We use a minimal committee structure where subjects are randomized into pairs where one is assigned as a chair and the other as an advisor. Our focus is on how committee gender composition influences decision-making. We demonstrate that committees outperform individuals, but that this gain is conditional on gender composition. Male-chair–female-advisor committees significantly underperform. Through a sequential decomposition of adjustment behavior, we show that while female advisors in these pairs move significantly toward the optimal rate, male chairs are less responsive to their advice. These results have implications for the performance of monetary policy committees as female membership increases, while male chairs often retain final decision-making powers.

2. Gender Wages, Performance Pay and Family Formation (with Colin Green, John S. Heywood)

3. Gender Inequality in Access, Applying and Hiring to Professional Occupations