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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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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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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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beliefs with experience are central to understanding behavior and learning in the IRPD. Beliefs strongly predict cooperation …
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We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the … intelligent, productive and equipped with adequate data and specialized computer programs, we find large learning effects …
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We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to …, we find evidence of employer learning for each skill type, for college and high school graduates, and for blue and white … collar workers. Moreover, we find that the extent of employer learning – which we demonstrate to be directly identified by …
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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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This paper studies the design of optimal contracts in dynamic environments where agents learn by doing. We derive a condition under which contracts are fully incentive compatible. A closed-form solution is obtained when agents have CARA utility. It shows that human capital accumulation...
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We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information …
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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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