We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (eg,
employers) hold about men and women. We find the confidence gap is contagious, causing …

When people receive new information, sometimes they revise their beliefs too much, and
sometimes too little. We show that a key driver of whether people overinfer or underinfer is …

We present the first experimental evidence that the timing of informativeness influences
motivated reasoning: Participants place more weight on information that aligns with their …

Peer review is the cornerstone of scientific publishing in economics, but data issues have
inhibited past efforts to study it. To address this challenge, we combine insights from a novel …

Uncertain information is frequently confirmed or retracted after people have initially heard it.
A large existing literature has studied how people change their beliefs in response to new …

This work focuses on misinformation and on voters' behaviour and addresses questions that
have direct implication for policy. Chapter 1: How does media coverage of research articles …