In their recenty published article "Obscured Transparency? Compensation Benchmarking and the Biasing of Executive Pay," Prof. Di Prete and Benjamin Elbers, together with co-author Mathijs De Vaan (UC, Berkeley, find that firms select peer groups strategically in order to justify higher pay for the CEO and that upward bias in compensation peer groups is highly predictive of an increase in CEO compensation.
Professor of Economics and Political Science Alessandra Casella's research into voting systems was featured in a piece in New Scientist. Professor Casella and her co-PI were able to demonstrate how, with some alternative voting systems, minority voting decisions which support strong preferences may yield greater overall satisfaction from all voters.
Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness
Historian Mae Ngai is featured in the new podcast series of the Tenement Museum entitled How to be an American. In related audio news, Professor Ngai’s seminal history of undocumented immigration is now available via Audiobooks.com,libro.fm, and Audible.com.
Museum Announces Podcast Series: ‘How to Be American’
Sociologist David Stark has been named a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin for the 2019-20 academic year. The title of his project is “Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams.”
Read more about Wissenschaftskolleg and find a full list of current Fellows here
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