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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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investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian learning. Two individuals with different priors observe the same infinite … behavior in a range of circumstances. We illustrate how the type of learning outlined in this paper interacts with economic …
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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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Mastery learning - the process by which students must demonstrate proficiency with a single topic before moving on - is … implement it into a classroom setting. This study evaluates a program to encourage greater mastery learning through technology … coaching in how to use Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) for helping students follow a customized roadmap of incremental …
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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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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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represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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triggers large asset-price jumps. We show that the learning choice is critically determined by preference parameters and the …
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We survey the recent literature on learning in financial markets. Our main theme is that many financial market … uncertain and subject to learning. We discuss phenomena related to the volatility and predictability of asset returns, stock …
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Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently … shows that there is a fundamental statistical identification problem in trying to separate learning from exogenous … technological change and that the estimated learning coefficient will generally be biased upwards. Second, we present two empirical …
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