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Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, employees with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is...
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This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects … and temporary salience effects. Instead, it supports a learning model in which agents update their priors on the expected …
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This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects … and temporary salience effects. Instead, it supports a learning model in which agents update their priors on the expected …
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A novel field experiment shows that learning activities in pairs with a greater spread in abilities lead to better …
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Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in lower-inflation contexts have...
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photography. We leverage a randomized controlled experiment to induce exogenous variation in attention and recognition to specific …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to …
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common to preferences in this class. We illustrate our approach by analyzing data from a large scale experiment conducted … with a sample of participants randomly drawn from the Dutch population. We find that behavior of players in the experiment … determinant of decisions in our experiment. -- belief-dependent preferences ; guilt aversion ; reciprocity ; partial …
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