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The Shape of Temptation : Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of goods that generate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for any previous...
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Crime, Transitory Poverty, and Isolation : Evidence from Madagascar
Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between poverty and crime. Following a disputed presidential election, fuel …, in Madagascar, is a form of organized crime. Theft, thus, appears to be used by some of the rural poor as a risk coping …, geographical isolation is associated with certain forms of crime …
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Negative Rainfall Shocks Increase Levels of the Stress Hormone Cortisol Among Poor Farmers in Kenya
Chemin, Matthieu - 2013
Does poverty lead to stress? Despite several studies showing correlations between socioeconomic status and levels of the stress hormone cortisol, it remains unknown whether this relationship is causal. We used random weather shocks in Kenya to address this question. Our identification strategy...
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Tackling Energy Poverty Through Behavioral Change : A Pilot Study on Social Comparison Interventions in Social Housing Districts
Caballero, Nicolas - 2020
Behavioral Economics has in recent years played a key role in informing the design of non-price interventions aimed at promoting energy conservation behaviors in residential areas. Some of the most influential contributions of the discipline in an applied setting have centered around the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827423
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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
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Giving to Poverty Relief Charities : The Impact of Beliefs and Misperceptions Towards Income Redistribution in a Real Donation Experiment
Luccasen, III, R. Andrew - 2017
Many Americans hold erroneous beliefs regarding the level of inequality in the United States and the efforts the federal government makes to alleviate poverty. In general, they overestimate the extent of poverty relief undertaken by government. Given that poverty relief programs are a public...
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Exposure to Poverty and Productivity
Gonzalez, Victor (contributor);  … - 2016
We study whether poverty can induce affective states that decrease productivity. In a controlled laboratory setting, we find that subjects randomly assigned to a treatment, in which they view a video featuring individuals that live in extreme poverty, exhibit lower subsequent productivity...
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Philanthropy, Welfare Capitalism or Radically Different Global Economic Model : What Would It Take to End Global Poverty within a Generation Based on Historical Growth Patterns?
Edward, Peter - 2015
This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being that this historical data can inform understanding and...
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On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
Hojman, Daniel; Kast, Felipe - 2014
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with loss aversion. We characterize the partial ranking over income dynamics...
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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality
Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023
While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...
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