fall in inflation in the 1980s was attributed to the changing beliefs informing monetary policy. To explain the escape in …

learning by policymakers, who update their beliefs on the basis of their own experience and of the policies adopted by other … explains more than 90% of the variability of capital account policies. We find that over time beliefs about the growth effects … have changed slowly and not smoothly from negative to positive. However, at the outset of the Great Recession beliefs on …

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious … but sometimes erode religious beliefs; (ii) a government, endogenously in power, that can allow such innovations to spread …

This paper presents evidence on the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a wide range of values and beliefs of …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook …

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

educational bureaucracy. It is documented that the beliefs of that bureaucracy differ substantially from those of the broader … entropy defines how predictable one’s occupation is as a function of one’s beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …’s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …