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Modeling natural resources scarcity and proverty effects on fertility in Honduras, Nepal, and Tanzania

Ayoub, Ayoub Shaban - 2008

high population growth. According to the vicious circle theory, natural resource scarcity coupled with poverty leads to … leads to a further increase in natural resource scarcity, creating a "feedback loop." This is the first study to use micro … failed to address endogeneity in the relationship between natural resource scarcity and population growth. This study was …

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Groups discipline resource use under scarcity

Diekert, Florian; Brekke, Kjell Arne - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 92 (2022) 1, pp. 75-103

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Blinded by worries : sin taxes and demand for temptation under financial worries

Burlacu, Sergiu; Kažemekaitytė, Austėja; Ronzani, Piero - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 92 (2022) 1, pp. 141-187

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Poverty identity and preference for challenge : evidence from the U.S. and India

Banker, Sachin; Bhanot, Syon P.; Deshpande, Aishwarya - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 76 (2020), pp. 1-21

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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays

Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019

The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra …

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Selective insensitivity for losses but not gains in decision making under risk among the poor

Ronzani, P.; Savadori, L.; Folloni, Giuseppe; Mittone, Luigi - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 77 (2018), pp. 96-106

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Effects of poverty on impatience : preferences or inattention?

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilova, Julie; … - 2018

We study two psychological channels how poverty may increase impatient behavior - an effect on time preference and reduced attention. We measured discount rates among Ugandan farmers who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. We find that experimentally induced...

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Cognitive droughts

Lichand, Guilherme; Mani, Anandi - 2020

Poverty involves both low income levels and high income uncertainty. Do both these dimensions of being poor capture attention in ways that distort decision-making and trap people in poverty? We examine these issues using real-life shocks faced by farmers in Brazil: random payday variation...

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Psychological effects of poverty on time preferences

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021

We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. To circumvent the role of economic constraints, we experimentally...

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Cognitive droughts

Lichand, Guilherme; Mani, Anandi - 2020

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