Daniel Chen
Toulouse Institute for Advanced Studies
MF 505
21 allée de Brienne
31015 Toulouse Cedex 6, France
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Institutional Affiliation: Toulouse Institute for Advanced Studies
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| February 2016 | Decision-Making under the Gambler's Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires
with Tobias J. Moskowitz, Kelly Shue: w22026
We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and major league baseball umpire pitch calls. The evidence is most consistent with the law of small numbers and the gambler's fallacy – people underestimating the likelihood of sequential streaks occurring by chance – leading to negatively autocorrelated decisions that result in errors. The negative autocorrelation is stronger among more moderate and less experienced decision-makers, following longer streaks of decisions in one direction, when the current and previous cases share similar characteristics or occur close in time, and when decision-makers face we... Published: Daniel L. Chen & Tobias J. Moskowitz & Kelly Shue, 2016. "Decision Making Under the Gambler’s Fallacy: Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol 131(3), pages 1181-1242. citation courtesy of 
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| March 2013 | Editors' introduction
with Daniel Hungerman
in Economics of Religion and Culture, Daniel Hungerman and Daniel L. Chen, editors
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