Time of Day and High Stakes Cognitive Assessments

A. Gaggero, Denni Tommasi
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A variety of external conditions may affect individual performances in high stakes cognitive assessments, with potentially lasting consequences on earnings and career. We provide the first causal evidence that the time of the day is an important condition affecting the performance at the moment of an evaluation. Exploiting a setting in which cognitive assessments are quasi-randomly assigned at a different time of day, we find that peak performance occurs in the early afternoon. The estimated time of day effects follow specific patterns consistent with the circadian rhythm, which suggests that biological factors are important determinants of performances even in economically meaningful settings.
一天中的时间和高风险认知评估
各种外部条件可能会影响个人在高风险认知评估中的表现,对收入和职业生涯产生潜在的持久影响。我们提供了第一个因果证据,证明一天中的时间是影响评估时表现的重要条件。利用在一天中的不同时间进行准随机的认知评估的设置,我们发现最佳表现出现在下午早些时候。估计的时间效应遵循与昼夜节律一致的特定模式,这表明即使在经济上有意义的环境中,生物因素也是表现的重要决定因素。
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