Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Tuesday May 1st

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Olivier Darmouni
Title Not Available

Thursday May 3rd

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Warren 311
Marketing Seminar - David Reiley (Pandora)
Title Not Available

2:15pm to 3:45pm - Grace Dodge 363
Finance Seminar - Tyler Muir
Do Intermediaries Matter for Aggregate Asset Prices? (with Valentin Haddad)

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday May 1st

12:30pm to 2:00pm - NYU Psychology Room 551
Social Psychology Brown Bags - Diana Tamir (Princeton University)
Title Not Available

2:40pm to 4:00pm - 19 W 4th Street, Room 517
Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Cendri Hutcherson (University of Toronto)
Neurocomputational Insights into Social Decision Making, Morality, and Self-Control

Article of the Week
Judges as susceptible to gender bias as laypeople -- and sometimes more so
At the behest of a group of trial court judges, a postdoctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation conducted a study comparing legal decision making among laypeople and sitting trial court judges. Participants made decisions about how to resolve two different cases: a shared custody case and a workplace discrimination case. The researchers varied the race and gender of the litigants in each mock case. Participants then filled out a survey designed to measure their personal attitudes related to race and gender. The researchers found that sitting judges were more likely than laypeople to award additional parenting time to mothers. They also found that the more the judges held "traditional" views regarding gender roles, the more likely they were to find in favor of a woman in a custody case and against a woman bringing a workplace discrimination case.