Poverty Impedes Cognitive FunctionPoverty Impedes Cognitive Function Anandi Mani,1 Sendhil Mullainathan,2 * Eldar Shafir,3 * Jiaying Zhao4 The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive per
