opportunities to learn about the strategies played by observed which amplifies the impact of altruism on observational learning …We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning …

The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …

learning, and even idiosyncratic variation. Our paper cautions that the slider task will be underpowered for uncovering a …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

consumption options and show how optimal regulation evolves over time. In our base setting where social and private learning … learning incentives diverge, we show that it will be optimal to temporarily increase the tax rate beyond net marginal external … damages to induce optimal learning, before reducing the tax rate to the steady-state level. Alternatively, one needs to …