of ethanol exposure did not interfere with rats' ability to behave according to economic theory. In the first experiment … original levels. In the second experiment rats responded to increased ethanol prices but not to a cue signaling future price …

This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and …

scores in terms of a student's position in a widening distribution of knowledge. If a standard deviation in test scores in … later grades translates into a larger difference in knowledge, an intervention's effect on normalized test scores may fall … even as its effect on knowledge does not. We evaluate this hypothesis by fitting a model of education production to …

This study examines the effect of experience and knowledge on weather insurance adoption. First, we conduct insurance …

We conduct a laboratory experiment on the determinants of beliefs about own and others' ability across different …

predictions. Here we evaluate the first major global legalization experiment in an internationally banned market, where a … monitoring system established before the experiment enables us to observe the behavior of illegal suppliers before and after …-time legal sale of ivory stocks to China and Japan in 2008 was designed as an experiment, but its global impact has not been …

We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …

This paper examines the role of knowledge elites in modernization. At the eve of the French Revolution, in the spring … particularly high in regions that had a thick knowledge elite, measured by subscribers to the famous Encyclopédie in the 1770s …. Historical evidence suggests that this pattern is driven by the spirit of enlightenment of French knowledge elites. Pre …