We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured … the role of economic constraints, we experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems, using priming … techniques. We find that thinking about poverty increases the preference to consume entertainment early and to delay work. Using …

Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more … poverty. However, both empirical and experimental evidence show no clear pattern such as would suggest that the poor are … from households living in poverty and extreme poverty wherein they participated in a baseline risk experiment that was the …

effectively design behaviorally informed interventions aimed at tackling energy poverty …Behavioral Economics has in recent years played a key role in informing the design of non-price interventions aimed at … applied setting have centered around the development of norm-based interventions. The success that these interventions have …

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty-induced attention …

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, but also, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty …

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, but also, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty …

We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured … the role of economic constraints, we experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems, using priming … techniques. We find that thinking about poverty increases the preference to consume entertainment early and to delay work. Using …