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compete with imperatives (general moral rules or precepts) as alternative modes of communication to persuade agents to behave …
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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, while the second...
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
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This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message …
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employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always … uncertain about their productivity, the separating level of education is ambiguously related to the speed of employer learning …
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networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …
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In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close agap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy atthe beginning of the tournament...
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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 …
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Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
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expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks the variance of the individual belief distributions. Guided by a simple …
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