Response to comment on "Poverty impedes cognitive function".

Mani, Anandi; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Shafir, Eldar; Zhao, Jiaying · Science · 2013

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Abstract

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.

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