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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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children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference …-in-differences analysis show that nutritional knowledge measured through a quiz increases among neighboring untreated mothers relative to a … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …
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We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information … identification of information transmission is exogenous worker mobility between firms. We find that the spread of information is …
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information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning …Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are … compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., whether potential employers have the same …
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.To 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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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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private returns to education within the employer learning framework of Farber and Gibbons [1996] and Altonji and Pierret [2001 …
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We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...
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A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...
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machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter …
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