{"id":10831,"date":"2020-10-27T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2020-10-27T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:46:20","slug":"celebrating-success-dr-smriti-sharma-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2020\/10\/27\/celebrating-success-dr-smriti-sharma-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Success: Dr Smriti Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <strong>Dr Smriti\u00a0Sharma\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0her paper &#8216;Effect of peers and rank on cognition, preferences and personality&#8217;\u00a0which will be\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em> shortly<em>. <\/em>This is coauthored with Utteeyo Dasgupta (Wagner College, USA), Subha Mani (Fordham University, USA) and Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster University, UK).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: We exploit the variation in admission cut-offs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted females, and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, while males in selective colleges experience a decline in extraversion and conscientiousness. We find differences in peer quality and rank concerns to be driving our findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Smriti\u00a0Sharma\u00a0on\u00a0her paper &#8216;Effect of peers and rank on cognition, preferences and personality&#8217;\u00a0which will be\u00a0published in\u00a0Review of Economics and Statistics shortly. This is&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2020\/10\/27\/celebrating-success-dr-smriti-sharma-4\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[399,502],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-celebrating-success","tag-review-of-economics-and-statistics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10832,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}