. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or partially unshroud add-on prices. Results show that consumer education may … increase welfare; however, it may also decrease welfare if education is insufficient to alter the equilibrium information and …

metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but …

institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters …

investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …

Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … tracking – grouping students of similar ability – is complicated by the fact that tracking is typically accompanied by changes … peer-to-peer teaching and ability tracking. While peer-to-peer teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, the …

In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private … all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

initial uncertainty in the external market but the possibility of subsequent learning about match-specific productivity, we …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students … the intervention affects schooling trajectories, with better performing students being assigned into more academically …

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …