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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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improvements.Consistent with learning models of the adoption decision, we find positive treatment effects on farmers' estimated … predicting persistence of impacts of temporary technology adoption subsidies, in particular due to learning effects …
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Performance-raising practices tend to diffuse slowly in the health care sector. To understand how incentives drive adoption, I study a practice that generates revenue for hospitals: submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals could raise their Medicare...
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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 …
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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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This paper develops a theory of expectations-driven business cycles based on learning. Agents have incomplete knowledge …
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