BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Seminar,Class/ Workshop DESCRIPTION:Germán Reyes\, Cornell University\, PhD Student\n\nCognitive En durance\, Talent Selection\, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital\ n\nCognitive endurance—the ability to sustain performance on a cognitively- demanding task over time—is believed to be a crucial productivity determina nt. However\, a lack of data on this variable has limited researchers' abil ity to understand its role in college and labor markets. This paper uses co llege-admission-exam records from 15 million Brazilian high school students to measure cognitive endurance based on changes in performance throughout the exam. By exploiting exogenous variation in the order of exam questions\ , I show that students are 7.1 percentage points (or 18.7%) more likely to correctly answer a given question when it appears at the beginning of the d ay versus the end. Motivated by this result\, I develop a portable method t o decompose test scores into fatigue-adjusted ability and cognitive enduran ce. I then merge these measures into a higher education census and the earn ings records of the universe of Brazilian formal-sector workers to quantify the association between endurance and long-run outcomes. I find that cogni tive endurance has a statistically and economically significant wage return . Regression-adjusting for fatigue-adjusted ability and other student chara cteristics\, a one-standard-deviation higher endurance predicts a 5.4% wage increase. I also document positive associations between endurance and coll ege attendance\, college quality\, college graduation\, firm quality\, and other outcomes. Finally\, I examine how the exam length affects the sorting of students to colleges due to systematic differences in endurance across students. I estimate that an exam reform that reduces the test length would reduce income-based test-score gaps and increase the predictive validity o f the exam for long-run outcomes. I discuss the implications of these findi ngs for the use of cognitive assessments for talent selection and investmen ts in interventions that build cognitive endurance. \n\n------------------- ------------------------\n\nWe strongly encourage in-person attendance in 1 41 Sage. However\, we recognize that there will be Covid-related reasons wh y people sometimes cannot attend in-person\, and thus a remote attendance o ption will also be available.\n\nIf you are interested in participating rem otely in this workshop\, please register at:\n\nhttps://cornell.zoom.us/mee ting/register/tJwude2hpzwtGt2W5EsLWbuc3WQGg7OyWUFE\n\nNote: Registration is limited to the Cornell community\n\nNote: If you have previously registere d for the Fall 2022 Behavioral Economics Workshop\, there is no need to re- register—you will use the same Behavioral Economics Workshop link for the e ntire semester.\n\nNote: The Behavioral Economics Workshop and the BEDR Wor kshop use separate links\; hence\, you still must register for the Behavior al Economics Workshop even if you have already registered for the BEDR Work shop. DTEND:20221101T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260306T183716Z DTSTART:20221101T151500Z GEO:42.445889;-76.483246 LOCATION:Sage Hall\, 141 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Joint Behavioral Economics Workshop and Labor Economics Workshop: G ermán Reyes UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_40421509737174 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/joint_behavioral_economics_workshop_an d_labor_economics_workshop_german_reyes END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR