University Library Search and Screen Committees

Information Aggregation in Search Committees

This paper examines how information is aggregated by a committee that has to decide when to end search. Each period, committee members observe private signals about the current alternatives, then vote whether to accept one of these alternatives or continue searching. In a pure common values setting, we extend the result of Austen-Smith and Banks (1996) to this dynamic environment: the only voti...

Reducing Bias in Academic Search Committees.

Facultymembers are often called on to serve and participate on search committees for deans, department chairs, leaders of centers of excellence, and seniorlevel positions in medical schools, academic hospitals, and health systems. These search committees are generally charged not only to find qualified candidates but also to consider diversity and inclusion in the process. The demographics of t...

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Psychology -Social) COGNITIVE STRUCTURE: A COMPARISON OF TWO THEORIES AND MEASURES OF INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY

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