Wiley Online Library : Econometrica
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Production and Learning in Teams

To what extent is a worker's human capital growth affected by the quality of his coworkers? To answer this question, we develop and estimate a model in which the productivity and the human capital growth of an individual depend on the average human capital of his coworkers. The measured production function is supermodular: The marginal product of a...

Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:06
Randomization Tests for Peer Effects in Group Formation Experiments

Measuring the effect of peers on individuals' outcomes is a challenging problem, in part because individuals often select peers who are similar in both observable and unobservable ways. Group formation experiments avoid this problem by randomly assigning individuals to groups and observing their responses; for example, do first-year students have better...

Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:06
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Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:06
Attributes: Selective Learning and Influence

An agent selectively samples attributes of a complex project so as to influence the decision of a principal. The players disagree about the weighting, or relevance, of attributes. The correlation across attributes is modeled through a Gaussian process, the covariance function of which captures pairwise attribute similarity. The key trade-off in sampling...

Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:06

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