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We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover … gender difference in learning (only) in the household …
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We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …
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a quality upgrade one of these inputs requires a period of learning before it can be used effectively, then in general … wasteful to tie up funds in the other inputs which will be underutilized until the date learning is over. We provide evidence …
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pharmaceutical advertising, allows us to model individual prescription decisions. Second, we distinguish across-patient learning of a … drug?s general efficacy from the within-patient learning of the match between a drug and a patient. Our results suggest … January 2002, doctors held a strong prior belief about the efficacy of Celebrex, Vioxx, and Bextra. As a result, the learning …
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Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently … shows that there is a fundamental statistical identification problem in trying to separate learning from exogenous … technological change and that the estimated learning coefficient will generally be biased upwards. Second, we present two empirical …
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-squares learning process, determinacy of a rational expectations (RE) equilibrium is sufficient but not necessary for learnability of … information assumption, which gives the agents only lagged information on endogenous variables during the learning process, the …
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is unobserved, and he optimally learns from observations of the economy. This is a classic problem of learning and … of modern policy-relevant models. As in most Bayesian learning problems, the optimal policy typically includes an … approximation to the BOP. We provide some simple examples to illustrate the role of learning and experimentation in an MJLQ …
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been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it … women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process … what is found in the data. The S shape results from the dynamics of learning. I calibrate the model to several key …
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