We present a field study of social learning. The setting is a pair of adjacent fast food restaurants serving very … is found, consistent with the social learning hypothesis, that relative queue length has a significant effect at the …

explosion of social media has significantly increased the scope and impact of social learning among consumers. This paper … studies observational learning in networks of friends versus strangers. A consumer decides whether to adopt a product after …-network becomes more effective. Underlying these results are two competing effects of network heterogeneity on social learning …

Social learning often occurs between groups with different levels of experience. Yet little is known about the ideal … novices learning from experienced, a particular form of probabilistic imitation is selected. Novices should imitate any …

knowledge. To asses the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …