It’s Not a Lack of Self-Control that Keeps People Poor
When considering poverty, our national conversation tends to overlook systemic causes. Instead, we often blame the poor for their poverty.
September 24th, 2015
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August 04th, 2015
Three Ways Behavioral Science Can Help End Poverty
Can behavioral science help end poverty? We think so, and we have a few ideas.
May 27th, 2015
What’s a Beer Worth? New Research Shows How Scarcity Affects Your Answer
Picture yourself on a beach. You are basking in the hot sun, feeling incredibly thirsty. Fortunately, there’s a bar at the resort where you’re staying. It’s pricey, but it’s just a few steps away. How much are you willing to pay for a cold beer?
January 26th, 2015
ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions
It’s well documented that the consequences of childhood poverty are immediate and long-lasting. By their first day in school, children in poverty score worse than their middle and upper class peers on nearly every developmental measure from language use to attention skills.
September 09th, 2014
Materially False: A Q&A with Tim Kasser about the Pursuit of the Good Life through Goods
As Madonna astutely noted in her 1984 song, we live in a material world.
August 04th, 2014
The Rejected Student Who Didn’t Complain
Consider the following two types of Ivy League admissions programs designed to grant special access to students: Affirmative action and legacy admissions.
November 14th, 2013
Textbook of the Future?
College education is too expensive, and textbooks are part of the problem. This is the thinking that motivated two psychologists to create an online platform to provide up-to-date, fully-customizable text books, for free.
October 03rd, 2013
Can Government Help Citizens Spend “Happy Money”?
There’s a puzzle that’s plagued psychologists, economists, and policy makers for decades.
September 12th, 2013
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
In this exclusive excerpt of their new book Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explore the concept of scarcity: its ubiquity, its challenges, and its silver lining.
