This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge …

This paper provides an investigation of the role of momentum and social learning in sequential voting systems. In the …, demonstrating a significant departure from the ideal of quot;one person, one vote.quot; We then address several alternative, non-learning …

.39 and 0.23 standard deviations, respectively, after four years. We also identify important gender learning gaps with boys …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning may mitigate this effect. Student fixed … learning time. New nationwide, school-level measures of air-conditioning penetration suggest patterns consistent with such … infrastructure largely offsetting heat's effects. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that year's learning by …

distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial in which … make a significant difference in student learning. We additionally conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis, which … substitution by laptops may be a cost-effective manner to provide classroom learning content …

learning. We compute system-wide measures using administrative data from the country of Colombia that link social security … and learning productivities are far from perfectly correlated, with private institutions receiving relatively higher … rankings under earning measures than under learning measures; 2) earning measures are significantly more correlated with …