Job market compensation for cognitive reflection ability

Rodrigo Leite, Ricardo Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Gomes Jelihovschi and Jamil Civitarese

Research in Economics, 2020, vol. 74, issue 1, 87-93

Abstract: Using a sample of 12,982 Brazilian professional accountants collected in 2012, we show that reflective accountants receive higher job compensation (wages) compared to their impulsive peers. Results are robust to matching on gender, age, education, number of children, place of residence, and job-related covariates. Results were also replicated in a sample of 1,932 professional accountants collected in 2017 with a different cognitive reflection scale, showing the persistence and robustness of the effect either to an alternative proxy for cognitive reflection and a different timeframe.

Keywords: Cognitive reflection; Wages; Job market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 M51 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2020.02.002

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