sources of heterogeneity (both of which can clearly account for the variation in wages and wage growth rates): learning …

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

learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form … implications of these models. The data is inconsistent with models including a substantial amount of learning. On the other hand …

by a worker for learning those skills. This measure arises naturally in a dynamic model of occupational choice and human … capital accumulation with multidimensional skills and Bayesian learning about one's ability to learn skills. Not only does …