We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning …

learning as a two-armed bandit problem and highlight the interaction between learning (experimentation) and production. We …

the nature of the task at the second date further shows that learning is unencumbered by a change in environment. Our …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed … heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat has little impact, suggesting heat directly disrupts learning … simple benefit-cost tests. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that years learning by one percent. Hot …

infinite-horizon learning, and subjective expectations with Euler-equation learning. Under rational expectations, the model … necessitates of large, possibly unrealistically so, degrees of myopia. The same result persists under infinite-horizon learning …, given that agents are still remarkably farsighted. But, under Euler-equation learning, the model can fit the data with only …

-social behaviors. This study investigates a large-scale behavioral intervention designed to actively leverage social learning and peer …