In their examination of ESL teachers' questions in the classroom, Long and Sato (1983)
found that teachers ask significantly more display questions, which request information …

Models of signaling, adverse selection, and moral hazard make it clear that differences in
information can lead to inefficiency. Workers may invest in nonproductive education to …

The asking and answering of questions is part of almost any conversational exchange, but it
is particularly characteristic of classroom interaction. In contrast to the use of questions …

The relationship between ethnicity and patterns of student classroom participation was
investigated in two university English as second language classrooms. Data were collected …

This paper studies strategic information transmission in a finite horizon environment where,
each period, a privately informed expert sends a message and a decision-maker takes an …

We present a dynamic model of sequential information acquisition by a heterogeneous
committee. At each date, agents decide whether to vote to adopt one of two alternatives or …

Information plays a vital role for decision making. However, it is often the case that those in
charge of making decisions do not possess decision-relevant information which instead …

Cheap-talk lies are at risk of being detected. We investigate the implications of this fact in a
communication game in which players have no common interests and messages are cheap …

We show that in multi-sender communication games where senders imperfectly observe the
state, if the state space is large enough, then there can exist equilibria arbitrarily close to full …

The lack of hard evidence in allegations about sexual misconduct makes it difficult to
separate true allegations from false ones. We provide a model in which victims and potential …