Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …

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 …

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 …

experience-based learning and sketch a simple model of its role in the stock market based on Malmendier et al. (2020a,b). I then …

We explore a model of non-Bayesian information aggregation in networks. Agents non-cooperatively choose among Friedkin …

We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …

.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …

represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas … productive wells for firms that carefully choose whom to copy -- but also a decline in innovation among the most productive firms …-off between the potential benefits of information diffusion and transparency, and the potential costs of reduced innovation …

We develop a model to analyze information aggregation and learning in housing markets. In the presence of pervasive … of a neighborhood. Our model provides a novel mechanism for amplification through learning in which noise from the …