The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning … opportunities to learn about the strategies played by observed which amplifies the impact of altruism on observational learning …

interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other groups, the micro-founded theory we develop predicts that a country … use for 223 countries, we compute measures of overall fractionalization and local learning, and investigate their relation … causal relation between local learning and public goods. Local mixing therefore mitigates the negative impact of a country …

(income) inequality. We show that in a second-best setting, in which learning effort is not observable, improving the quality …

consumption options and show how optimal regulation evolves over time. In our base setting where social and private learning … learning incentives diverge, we show that it will be optimal to temporarily increase the tax rate beyond net marginal external … damages to induce optimal learning, before reducing the tax rate to the steady-state level. Alternatively, one needs to …

there is a clean energy source that is a perfect substitute and exhibits learning-by-doing (LBD). If the marginal extraction …

social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The …