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Sticking with Your Vote : Cognitive Dissonance and Voting
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2006
In traditional models, votes are an expression of preferences and beliefs. Psychological theories of cognitive dissonance suggest, however, that behavior may shape preferences. In this view, the very act of voting may influence political attitudes. A vote for a candidate may lead to more...
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When Information Conflicts with Obligations : the Role of Motivated Cognition
Wang, Ao; Wang, Shaoda; Ye, Xiaoyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. Consistent with an interpretation of motivated cognition, students who receive the material distort the statistics about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435143
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457528
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Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2000
This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from multiple years of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Maternal labor supply during the first three years of the child's life is predicted to have a small negative effect on...
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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Black, Sandra E. - 2008
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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Schools, Skills, and Synapses
Heckman, James J. - 2008
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464582
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Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …, we instrument for family size using twin births and sex composition. IV estimates using sex composition as an instrument … show no negative effect of family size; however, IV estimates using twins imply that family size has a negative effect on …
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Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods … explains about 3% of the within-family variance of IQ. When we control for birth endowments, the estimated birth order effects … birth order effects occur because later-born children are more affected by family breakdown …
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The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment
Kaestner, Robert - 1995
In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive …
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The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Juhn, Chinhui - 2015
We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease …
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