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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

interesting and potentially important object of study because the most valuable assets of these firms take the form of knowledge … - particularly knowledge of the needs and interests of clients. We argue that the two most distinctive organizational features of …

The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps … disease. However, such knowledge is arguably only a necessary condition for targeting these objectives. In this paper, we … describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no …