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RESEARCHARTICLE Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
Poverty Impedes Cognitive FunctionAnandi Mani,1 Sendhil Mullainathan,2*Eldar Shafir,3*Jiaying Zhao4 The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate Poverty . We hypothesizethat Poverty directly Impedes Cognitive Function and present two studies that test this , we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitiveperformance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the Cognitive functionof farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitiveperformance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich.
Experiment 3 added incentives to experiment 1: In addition to the standard participation fee, participants earned $0.25 for every correct re-sponseonbothtasks.Performanceinexperiment 3(n = 100 participants) is summarized in Fig. 2. As before, the poor performed similarly to the rich in the easy condition [Raven’s: t(46) = 0.26,
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