Response to comment on "poverty impedes cognitive function"

Anandi Mani; Sendhil Mullainathan; Eldar Shafir; Jiaying Zhao

doi:10.1126/science.1246799

Response to comment on "poverty impedes cognitive function"

Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jiaying Zhao

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Wicherts and Scholten criticized our study on statistical and psychometric grounds. We show that (i) using a continuous income variable, the interaction between income, and experimental manipulation remains reliable across our experiments; (ii) our results in the cognitive control task do not appear driven by ceiling effects; and (iii) our observed post-harvest improvement is robust to the presence of learning.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1169e
Journal	Science
Volume	342
Issue number	6163
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246799
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Response to comment on "poverty impedes cognitive function"

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