📈Result 2.2: After a discussion (i.e., Guess 2 performance), this advantage disappears. ❌
➡️ Information pooling is successful in the presence of expertise! [7/10]

📈Result 2.1: Before discussion (i.e., Guess 1 performance), initial information advantage exists. ✅
[6/10]

Gendered domain: a novel “guess-the-price” task, each spouse guess the prices of male and female type product baskets [5/10]

📉Result 1: Relative to receiving signals on their own, spouses' signals are less accounted for by 21%.

➡️Households indeed fail to pool information. [4/10]

Gender-neutral domain: in a ball-in-urn task, I vary the source of new information to be either self or spouse. [3/10]

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🚨 JMP Alert 🚨

Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse?

In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise.

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