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understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information … identification of information transmission is exogenous worker mobility between firms. We find that the spread of information is …
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would increase further by 2 percentage points in the absence of search frictions. Providing students with full information …
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The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have bubbles in financial markets and any surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent...
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information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning …. Thus outside firms retain sizeable expectation errors due to asymmetric information. -- employer learning ; asymmetric …Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are …
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matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. -- smoking ; matching ; bargaining … ; learning ; health …
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private returns to education within the employer learning framework of Farber and Gibbons [1996] and Altonji and Pierret [2001 …
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construct a dynamic Bayesian occupational choice model with sequential decisions under ambiguity due to imperfect information …
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Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions - namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn - and this may explain some of...
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
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