Social status and motivated beliefs
通过理论模型、队列研究数据和两个控制实验，证明社会地位通过影响个体对自身能力的信念形成，进而决定经济成就，揭示了社会地位如何通过内在心理约束阻碍经济成功。
This paper shows that social status determines economic achievement through a psychological mechanism. Specifically, social status influences the way individuals form beliefs about their abilities and these beliefs are, in turn, crucial for achievement. A theoretical framework formalizes this mechanism. Data from a cohort study and from two controlled experiments corroborate its existence and quantify its magnitude. This study highlights the role of social status in creating constraints that are internal to the individual and that have the potential to impair economic success.