-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …

direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …

occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …

understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …