This article explores the places and local social relations in small cities as the setting and context for adult learning. By referencing social capital theory and the concept of informal learning spaces, we discuss empirical examples that illustrate the mutual influences of the local...

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an “accelerant” in many aspects of social life, in that it sped up existing social trends rather than fostering entirely new behaviors. This has been particularly evident in relation to technology use. We examine intergenerational technology guidance—how...

I investigate how employers react to uncertainties about the productivity of workers and use information strategically to set wages. I study the implications of these choices on the decisions of workers and employers to terminate or pursue job relationships. I account for asymmetries in...

Spectrum auctions in the United Kingdom have been mostly successful in achieving their objectives, suggesting that potential lessons can be learned for auctions elsewhere, given the mixed picture worldwide of positive and negative experiences. Good auction design benefits from learning both...

This paper studies sequential social learning when people learn about others' actions through coarse signals. Agents arrive in cohorts sequentially. Each agent chooses an action upon observing a private "state-signal'' about a payoff-relevant state of the world and "action-signals'' that...

We propose a distributed randomized policy iteration algorithm for infinite horizon dynamic programming problems for which the control at each stage is m-dimensional. The traditional policy iteration algorithm involves performing a minimization over an m-dimensional constraint set and has a...

School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning over time. The findings show that test scores in math for...

Many studies have focused on the generalized second price (GSP) auction under uncertainty, particularly with unknown private valuation, Bayesian-Nash equilibrium, social welfare loss and reserve price. However, the learning path for players in the GSP auction remains inadequately addressed. As a...