We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover … gender difference in learning (only) in the household …

pharmaceutical advertising, allows us to model individual prescription decisions. Second, we distinguish across-patient learning of a … drug?s general efficacy from the within-patient learning of the match between a drug and a patient. Our results suggest … January 2002, doctors held a strong prior belief about the efficacy of Celebrex, Vioxx, and Bextra. As a result, the learning …

Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently … shows that there is a fundamental statistical identification problem in trying to separate learning from exogenous … technological change and that the estimated learning coefficient will generally be biased upwards. Second, we present two empirical …

-squares learning process, determinacy of a rational expectations (RE) equilibrium is sufficient but not necessary for learnability of … information assumption, which gives the agents only lagged information on endogenous variables during the learning process, the …

is unobserved, and he optimally learns from observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and … of modern policy-relevant models. As in most Bayesian learning problems, the optimal policy typically includes an … approximation to the BOP. We provide some simple examples to illustrate the role of learning and experimentation in an MJLQ …

been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it … women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process … what is found in the data. The S shape results from the dynamics of learning. I calibrate the model to several key …

investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian learning. Two individuals with different priors observe the same infinite … implications for economic behavior in a range of circumstances. We illustrate how the type of learning outlined in this paper …