and punishment. We test the model s predictions in a laboratory experiment and find that the combination of reward and … reinforcement learning. …

identifies the behavioral response to rank incentives (i.e., the incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank …). We find that rank incentives not only boost performance in the related assignment, but also increase the average grade … all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …

exposure or experience can cause learning and hence better detection of deception. We investigate using data culled from events … individual from within a group all claiming to be that individual. Our sample showed evidence of learning, suggesting that …

; promotion ; firing ; contract ; experiment ; learning … three mechanisms with the appropriate distribution of prizes. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment and … behavior in all mechanisms is consistent with basic directional and reinforcement learning. -- tournament ; reward ; punishment …

More than three decades of intense interest in and scholarship about the determinants of student learning of economics … success. Based on data from a natural experiment, we estimate the gains in student cognitive achievement in an introductory … learning that they can implement …

cycle model of occupational choices based on workers learning about their type and sorting themselves to the best job match …

these interactions, there are learning spillovers: coworkers learn general skills from each other that increase future … their own education. Next, I show that learning spillovers are empirically relevant. Using matched administrative data from …