Is it possible to stimulate women's income-generating activities by relaxing their financial
and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? We …

We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation
microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in
which conflicting interests prevent effective communication between spouses about the …

We provide evidence of a powerful barrier to social learning: people are much less sensitive
to information others discover compared to equally-relevant information they discover …

When people exchange ideas, both truths and falsehoods can proliferate. We study the role
of explanations for the spread of truths and falsehoods in 15 financial decision tasks. We pay …

We study how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an
informationprovision experiment with a representative sample of households from Germany …

Much work on intellectual humility has focused on its epistemic benefits. We suggest that
displaying (or failing to display) intellectual humility also has effects on how others perceive …

While men and women make joint decisions about fertility, the fact that women typically give
birth may produce gendered spheres of learning about a non-trivial cost of childbearing in …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We
analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large …

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in
improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job …