Linda Babcock

Starr Litigation Services (2007)

Linda Babcock, Henry S. Farber, Cynthia Fobjan, Eldar Shafir

Summer Institute on negotiation and dispute resolution in the July and August, 1992, where this

Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases.

Babcock, Linda, Loewenstein, George

The authors review studies conducted by themselves and coauthors that document a 'self-serving' bias in judgments of fairness and demonstrate that the bias is an important cause of impasse in...

Bargaining unit composition and the returns to education and tenure.

Linda Babcock, John Engberg

Using data on collectively bargained outcomes in Pennsylvania schools in 1983-89, the authors find a strong relationship between the returns to education and tenure and the distribution of those...

Bargaining unit composition and the returns to education and tenure.

Linda Babcock, John Engberg

Using data on collectively bargained outcomes in Pennsylvania schools in 1983-89, the authors find a strong relationship between the returns to education and tenure and the distribution of those...

Split-Award Tort Reform and Settlement Outcomes: An Experimental Investigation

Maxim Nikitin, Linda Babcock, Claudia M. Landeo

In an attempt to reduce the liability insurance costs of firms, several US states have implemented many different kinds of tort reform. Some reforms take the form of caps or limits on punitive damage...

Choosing the Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons in Negotiations That Reflect a Self-Serving Bias.

Babcock, Linda, Wang, Xianghong, Lowenstein, George

The authors explore the role that choice of comparison groups plays in explaining impasse in teacher contract negotiations. They hypothesize that the negotiators select 'comparable' districts in a...

Do You a Favor? Social Implications of High Aspirations in Negotiation

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Babcock, Linda, Lai, Lei

Study explores implications of high aspirations for potential future cooperation with one’s negotiating counterpart. Participants were 134 undergraduate students acting as buyers or sellers in a...

It Depends Who Is Asking and Who You Ask: Social Incentives for Sex Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiation

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Babcock, Linda, Lai, Lei

Two experiments show that sex differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations may be explained by differential treatment of men and women when they attempt to negotiate. In Experiment 1,...

Constraints and Triggers: Situational Mechanics of Gender in Negotiation

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Babcock, Linda, McGinn, Kathleen L.

Authors propose two categories of situational moderators of gender in negotiation: situational ambiguity and gender triggers. Reducing the degree of situational ambiguity constrains the influence of...

Damage Caps, Motivated Anchoring, and Bargaining Impasse.

Pogarsky, Greg, Babcock, Linda

This paper reports results from a bargaining experiment testing the effect on settlement rates of a damage cap set much higher than the value of the underlying claim. We presented 462 student...

Damage Caps and Settlement: A Behavioral Approach.

Babcock, Linda, Pogarsky, Greg

Since 1970, at least 30 states have enacted legislation capping the damages plaintiffs can recover in a lawsuit. Guided by previous research on suit and settlement, we outline a simple framework for...

Relational Accounts: An Answer for Women to the Compensation Negotiation Dilemma

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Babcock, Linda

Women face a compensation negotiation dilemma in which they have to weigh the economic benefits of asking for higher pay with the social risks of defying prescriptive sex stereotypes (Bowles,...