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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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, endogenous learning here eliminates that effect …
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who did not. Our findings suggest that reducing fetal IDD has significant benefits for child cognition: Protection from … illness, suggesting that IOC improves schooling through its effect on cognition rather than its effect on health. However … and suggest a potentially important role of variation in rates of learning disability in explaining cross-country growth …
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Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in non-parental care due to policy reforms and expansion of early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects of high-quality center-based care on children's cognitive growth. Yet we know little about the effects of center care...
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A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...
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We survey work using Bayesian learning in macroeconomics, highlighting common themes and new directions. First, we … present many of the common types of learning problems agents face---signal extraction problems---and trace out their effects … information. Models differ in their motives for information acquisition and the cost of information, or learning technology …
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experience-based learning and sketch a simple model of its role in the stock market based on Malmendier et al. (2020a,b). I then …
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We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores …
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triggers large asset-price jumps. We show that the learning choice is critically determined by preference parameters and the …
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