learning in guiding selective attention and market dynamics. We confirm that attention focuses on options that quickly achieve …

search, or consumer learning …

social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise …, social learning appears to be an important determinant of sales in the movie industry, accounting for 38% of sales for the …

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 …

We examine the role of generalized constant gain stochastic gradient (SGCG) learning in generating large deviations of …

learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and … unobserved characteristics. We find large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores, especially among …

We examine how a social stigma of seeking information can inhibit learning. Consider a Seeker of uncertain ability who …