Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

inherently unobservable sources of heterogeneity learning ability and workers' inter-temporal preferences (discounting) both of …