investments in education technology continue to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education … education, and (4) online learning. While this review focuses on literature from developed countries, it also draws upon …In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As …

by a worker for learning those skills. This measure arises naturally in a dynamic model of occupational choice and human … capital accumulation with multidimensional skills and Bayesian learning about one's ability to learn skills. Not only does …

treatment effects in education. To begin, we present a simple model of student learning that incorporates permanent as well as … transitory learning gains. Using this model, we demonstrate how the parameter of interest - the persistence of a particular … measurable education input - can be recovered via instrumental variables as a particular local average treatment effect. We …

We study the perfect Bayesian equilibrium of a model of learning over a general social network. Each individual … characterize the conditions under which there will be asymptotic learning -- that is, the conditions under which, as the social … unbounded (meaning that the implied likelihood ratios are unbounded), there will be asymptotic learning as long as there is some …

social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise …, social learning appears to be an important determinant of sales in the movie industry, accounting for 38% of sales for the …

We present results about the effects of observing others' choices, called observational learning, on individuals … experimental design aims to distinguish observational learning effect from saliency effect (because observing others' choices also … theoretical predictions, some modest evidence that observational learning effect was stronger among infrequent customers. We also …

represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas …

Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …-adjusted educational attainment among the working age population based on their health status during the time they did their education …

market. We propose a simple learning model where agents can invest in the acquisition of financial knowledge. Differential …. People with higher lifetime earnings, higher education, higher cognitive abilities, defined contribution as opposed to …