Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Sendhil Mullainathan, August 2013, Paper. "The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle..." May require purchase or user account.