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On this episode of The Report Card, Nat interviews Christina Brown and Heather Schofield, two of the authors of Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital. Nat, Christina, and Heather discuss what cognitive endurance is and why it's important, PISA, an elaborate field experiment in India, disparities in American schools, shortening standardized tests, students in Pakistan, mazes and tangrams, what schools can do differently to build cognitive endurance in students, AP exams, long medical shifts, whether an extra year of schooling makes a difference for cognitive endurance, the ideal age to build cognitive endurance, and more.Christina Brown is a development economist who will be joining the University of Chicago’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023, and Heather Schofield is an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Their coauthors on Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital are Supreet Kaur and Geeta Kingdon.Show Notes:Cognitive Endurance as Human CapitalInducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani SchoolsThe Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban PoorRamadan Fasting and Agricultural Output

On this episode of The Report Card, <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Nat</a> interviews <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/christinabrownecon/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Brown</a> and <a href="https://heatherschofield.net" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Heather Schofield</a>, two of the authors of <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30133/w30133.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital</a>. Nat, Christina, and Heather discuss what cognitive endurance is and why it's important, PISA, an elaborate field experiment in India, disparities in American schools, shortening standardized tests, students in Pakistan, mazes and tangrams, what schools can do differently to build cognitive endurance in students, AP exams, long medical shifts, whether an extra year of schooling makes a difference for cognitive endurance, the ideal age to build cognitive endurance, and more.Christina Brown is a development economist who will be joining the University of Chicago’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023, and Heather Schofield is an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Their coauthors on Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital are <a href="https://www.supreetkaur.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Supreet Kaur</a> and <a href="https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=GGKIN45" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Geeta Kingdon</a>.Show Notes:<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30133/w30133.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital</a><a href="https://christinalbrown.github.io/Christina_Brown_JMP_Teacher_Sorting.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools</a><a href="https://heatherschofield.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/revised_sleep_paper-16.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor</a><a href="https://heatherschofield.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/schofield-ramadan-and-agricultural-output.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ramadan Fasting and Agricultural Output</a>

Christina Brown and Heather Schofield on Cognitive Endurance