children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food … but are important to consider when designing an experiment as causal effects of treatments can be attenuated if the …

argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs … of an exogenously administered change in beliefs in both of these dimensions on the motivation to learn. We find that …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

political competition is too high or too low. We first build a simple game theoretic model to capture the effect of electoral … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …

We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the … intelligent, productive and equipped with adequate data and specialized computer programs, we find large learning effects …