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who did not. Our findings suggest that reducing fetal IDD has significant benefits for child cognition: Protection from … illness, suggesting that IOC improves schooling through its effect on cognition rather than its effect on health. However … and suggest a potentially important role of variation in rates of learning disability in explaining cross-country growth …
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Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in non-parental care due to policy reforms and expansion of early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects of high-quality center-based care on children's cognitive growth. Yet we know little about the effects of center care...
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A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...
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We survey work using Bayesian learning in macroeconomics, highlighting common themes and new directions. First, we … present many of the common types of learning problems agents face---signal extraction problems---and trace out their effects … information. Models differ in their motives for information acquisition and the cost of information, or learning technology …
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Interventions to promote learning are often categorized into supply- and demand-side approaches. In a randomized … experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand …
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experience-based learning and sketch a simple model of its role in the stock market based on Malmendier et al. (2020a,b). I then …
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We explore a model of non-Bayesian information aggregation in networks. Agents non-cooperatively choose among Friedkin-Johnsen type aggregation rules to maximize payoffs. The DeGroot rule is chosen in equilibrium if and only if there is noiseless information transmission...leading to consensus....
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We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …
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.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …
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represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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