This paper studies the effect of social learning on political outcomes in a model of informative campaign advertising … information, on voters' learning about candidates running for office, and on the polarization of the electoral outcome. In …

avoidance by 50%. In a social learning context in wave 2, we find participants place 33% more weight on ingroup than outgroup …

avoidance by 50%. In a social learning context in wave 2, we find participants place 33% more weight on ingroup than outgroup …

define asymptotic learning as the fraction of agents taking the correct action converging to one in probability as a society … grows large. Under truthful communication, we show that asymptotic learning occurs if (and under some additional conditions … receive and distribute a large amount of information. Asymptotic learning therefore requires information to be aggregated in …

peer splits. These results are consistent with social learning from peers' actions and outcomes. The unique features of the …