final flash

Question 1

Walter Mischel

Answer 1

marshmallow test

Question 2

Terrie Moffitt (2011)

Answer 2

more self-control = better outcomes

Question 3

Eric Turkheimer

Answer 3

Three Laws of Behavioral Genetics.

1. All behavioral traits are heritable
2. Shared environment is smaller than genetic influence
3. Unshared environment explains much of the rest.

Question 4

Ritchie & Tucker-Drob

Answer 4

more school = increased IQ

Question 5

Protzko

Answer 5

fade-out effect

Question 6

Frisell

Answer 6

lower IQ = more violent crime

Question 7

Sariaslan

Answer 7

low family income doesn’t change outcomes

Question 8

Akee

Answer 8

Cherokee receiving regular casino income payments

Question 9

Cesarini

Answer 9

sudden wealth does not reduce crime

Question 10

Alesina

Answer 10

China’s Cultural Revolution

elite’s regained advantage within two generations

Question 11

Bleakley & Ferrie

Answer 11

Descendants of Cherokee Land Lottery winners.

no difference in wealth or literacy compared to non-winners.

Question 12

Jaffee

Answer 12

antisocial fathers worsen outcomes.

Question 13

Jay Belsky

Answer 13

unpredictable childhoods lead to faster strategy

Question 14

Alfred Binet

Answer 14

foundation for IQ tests

Question 15

Quasi-experiment

Answer 15

Uses cutoffs (like age or test scores) to compare groups

Question 15

PIRLS 2001

Answer 15

girls score higher on reading exams

Question 16

1990 Physicians study

Answer 16

doctors have no real pay gap. people just have more experience and they get paid more

Question 17

Ly et al. 2017

Answer 17

men and women earn almost the same once you control for hours worked and productivity in that job

Question 18

Bolotnyy and Emanuel

Answer 18

bus study - women earn less mainly from less overtime and different shifts; gap fades after adjusting

Question 19

Kleven

Answer 19

Child Penalty

Question 19

Booth and van Ours

Answer 19

many dutch women work part time and like it; housework still mostly done by women

Question 20

Voyer and Voyer

Answer 20

girls and women get higher grades in school across subjects and countries

Question 21

SMPY Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth

Answer 21

very high early math talent predicts stem phds and patents

Question 22

Hsu and Schombert

Answer 22

students need a basic math level to do well; very low sat math almost never gets top grades

Question 23

Templer and Tomeo

Answer 23

fields with higher gre math and more math use have more men; low-math fields have more women

Question 24

Neal & Johnson

Answer 24

black–white wage gap gets much smaller after controlling for afqt scores; early skills matter a lot

Question 25

Heckman

Answer 25

goes against neal and johnson because discrimination shaped the early skills

Question 26

Fryer

Answer 26

says today’s racial gaps mostly come from skill and opportunity gaps

Question 26

Roth, Huffcutt & Bobko

Answer 26

finds small racial gaps in job performance, larger on cognitive tasks, suggesting real skill differences

Question 27

McKay & McDaniel

Answer 27

whites do better than blacks in job performance

Question 28

Bertrand & Mullainathan

Answer 28

auid study. white names get more call backs

Question 29

Torrellano-Bover

Answer 29

interned japanese got good jobs after

Question 30

interned japanese

Answer 30

interned japanese got good jobs after

Question 31

Sowell

Answer 31

blacks didn'k arrive with this ghetto-ness