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different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning based on level-k reasoning. We find …
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understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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news), whether learning performance is better or worse when people are actively investing in a security or passively … observing the security’s payoffs, and whether there are personal characteristics that correlate with learning performance. The …. Within individual, learning from gains versus losses, or during active versus passive involvement, are not perfectly …
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literature on learning. …
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We present an experiment for the study of learning in a complex task which requires both memorisation and the ability …
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Bateson. Learning requires to recognize a series of situations as identical and then to observe the effect of given variables … hypothesis to be continuously tested. This vision of bounds and learning has many implications for the debate on rationality and …
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The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being mismatched at the mean of the conditional wages...
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We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven hundred children in a variety of strategic...
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We investigate whether short-term everyday stressors leads to unhealthier dietary choices among low socioeconomic status mothers. We propose a novel stress protocol that aims to mimic everyday stressors experienced by this population, involving time and financial pressure. We evaluate the impact...
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Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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