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Heather Schofield

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First Name:Heather
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Last Name:Schofield
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RePEc Short-ID:psc925
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http://heatherschofield.net
Terminal Degree:2014 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (United States)
http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/
RePEc:edi:gscorus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Carvalho, Leandro & de Walque, Damien B. C. M. & Lund, Crick & Schofield, Heather & Somville, Vincent & Wei, Jingyao, 2025. "Psychological Barriers to Participation in the Labor Market : Evidence from Rural Ghana," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11271, The World Bank.
  2. Christina L. Brown & Supreet Kaur & Geeta Kingdon & Heather Schofield, 2022. "Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital," NBER Working Papers 30133, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Pedro Bessone & Gautam Rao & Frank Schilbach & Heather Schofield & Mattie Toma, 2020. "The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor," NBER Working Papers 26746, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Barrett, Christopher B. & Schofield, Heather, 2026. "On risk-based poverty traps," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).
  2. Carvalho, Leandro & de Walque, Damien & Lund, Crick & Schofield, Heather & Somville, Vincent & Wei, Jingyao, 2026. "Psychological barriers to participation in the labor market: Evidence from rural Ghana," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
  3. Christina Brown & Supreet Kaur & Geeta Kingdon & Heather Schofield, 2025. "Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 140(2), pages 943-1002.
  4. Pedro Bessone & Gautam Rao & Frank Schilbach & Heather Schofield & Mattie Toma, 2021. "The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 136(3), pages 1887-1941.
  5. Heather Schofield & Atheendar S. Venkataramani, 2021. "Poverty-related bandwidth constraints reduce the value of consumption," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118(35), pages 2102794118-, August.
  6. Frank Schilbach & Heather Schofield & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2016. "The Psychological Lives of the Poor," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(5), pages 435-440, May.
  7. Schofield, Heather & Loewenstein, George & Kopsic, Jessica & Volpp, Kevin G., 2015. "Comparing the effectiveness of individualistic, altruistic, and competitive incentives in motivating completion of mental exercises," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 286-299.

Chapters

  1. Emma Boswell Dean & Frank Schilbach & Heather Schofield, 2017. "Poverty and Cognitive Function," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Poverty Traps, pages 57-118, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Heather Schofield & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2008. "The psychology of nutrition messages," Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, in: Beyond Health Insurance: Public Policy to Improve Health, pages 145-172, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 3 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (2) 2020-03-02 2022-07-18
  2. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2020-03-02 2025-12-15
  3. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (2) 2020-03-02 2022-07-18
  4. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2020-03-02 2022-07-18
  5. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (1) 2022-07-18
  6. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2022-07-18
  7. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2022-07-18
  8. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2025-12-15

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