Youth bulges in developing countries may carry both a potential for growth via demographic
dividends, and ticking political time bombs, depending on the success of authorities in …

This paper combines dynamic social choice and strategic experimentation to study the
following question: How does a society, a committee, or, more generally, a group of …

The job-search problem of couples differs in significant ways from that of singles. We
characterize the reservation wage strategies of a couple that perfectly pools income to …

This paper analyzes a sequential search model with adverse selection. We study
information aggregation by the price—how close the equilibrium prices are to the full …

We present a dynamic model of sequential information acquisition by a heterogeneous
committee. At each date, agents decide whether to vote to adopt one of two alternatives or …

Most labor market search models ignore the fact that decisions are often made at the
household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating a household search model …

A committee decides by unanimity whether to accept the current alternative or to continue
costly search. Each alternative is described by a vector of distinct attributes and each …

We model a corporate board evaluating a chief executive officer (CEO) of uncertain
management ability. Each director receives a noisy private signal about CEO ability, after …

We introduce a framework for studying collective search by teams. Discoveries are
correlated over time and governed by a Brownian path, where search speed is jointly …

Searching for the best worker, a reliable supply alternative, or the most profitable investment
is frequently delegated to an agent. This article develops a theory of delegated search. We …