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Mullainathan & Shafir

Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao demonstrated experimentally that financial scarcity reduces fluid intelligence and executive function1. executive function is the mediator through which scarcity impairs decisions2.

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Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao demonstrated experimentally that financial scarcity reduces fluid intelligence and executive function

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“Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao (2013, *Science*, "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function")”
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executive function is the mediator through which scarcity impairs decisions

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“if executive function is the mediator through which scarcity impairs decisions (Mullainathan & Shafir's core thesis)”
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"the ADHD × scarcity multiplicative interaction is a tractable empirical claim that follows from existing theory but has not been directly tested"
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"ADHD amplifies scarcity effects"
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