Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity
theory proposes that poverty itself induces a scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If
so, reducing financial concerns could by itself increase productivity. We test this hypothesis …

Background The concept of a financial scarcity mindset has raised much attention as an
explanation for poor decision-making and dysfunctional behavior. It has been suggested …

Youth unemployment remains extremely high throughout the developing world, at times
coexisting with unmet demand for labour and high job turnover. We examine one possible …

Food security is increasingly a societal concern, also in developed economies. While
originally developed through a nutritional lens, food security is also increasingly …

Youth unemployment remains high throughout the developing world, at times coexisting with
unmet demand for labor and high job turnover. This paper examines one possible …

Disadvantaged students perform differentially worse when randomly given a financially
salient mathematics exam. For students with socioeconomic indicators below the national …

We investigate the link between poverty and decision-making in a sample of farmers in
Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items …

Whereas several studies find that financial scarcity has a detrimental impact on cognitive
functioning, some studies find no relationship and others even report beneficial effects. To …