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

We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical … improvements from learning are faster where market signals are noisier …

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 …

by the strength of a private learning channel from prices, arising from the multidimensional sources of asymmetric … information, in relation to the usual public learning channel. When the private learning channel is strong (weak) in relation to …