On the psychology of poverty

Science, 2014

755 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/54b9b8090f3e763017574fa6c24542e9b1f54cf8

Citations in the corpus

• Psychological characteristics and household savings behavior: The importance of accounting for latent heterogeneity (2018, positive): “Research has found a positive relationship between self-control and higher income (Haushofer and Fehr, 2014), and various authors have attempted to explain this phenomenon.”
• Entrepreneurship responding to adversity: Equilibrating Adverse Events and Disequilibrating Persistent Adversity (2020, positive): “As a result of their poverty, living conditions, and work, these individuals face serious health issues (Haushofer & Fehr, 2014; Wyk & Bradshaw, 2017).”
• Squeezed: Coping with Constraint through Efficiency and Prioritization (2015, positive): “…in the psychology of constraint, especially uncontrollable constraint, which has been shown to produce stress, negative affect, diminished cognitive capacity, discounting of the future, and a focus on the near term (Haushofer and Fehr 2014; Mani et al. 2013; Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir 2012).”
• A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, neutral): “Haushofer and Fehr (2014) provide insights into the psychology of poverty by summarizing evidence that suggests poverty-related stress causes negative affective states (including sadness and anger), which increase short-sighted and risk-adverse decision-making and other economic behaviors that…”
• THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA (2016, neutral): “We had hypothesized that cash transfers would lead to an increase in psychological well-being, specifically to a reduction in stress and cortisol levels (Haushofer and Fehr 2014).”
• Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, neutral): “Poverty remains a problem worldwide (Mani et al., 2013; Haushofer and Fehr, 2014; Zhang et al., 2015).”
• Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective (2015, neutral): “At a physiological level, the stress induced by living in poverty has been shown to elevate cortisol levels, which in turn raises individuals’ discount rates and amplifies present bias (Haushofer and Fehr 2014).”
• Parenting style as an investment in human development (2018, positive): “…In short, “the evidence indicates that poverty causes stress and negative affective states which in turn may lead to short-sighted and risk-averse decisionmaking, possibly by limiting attention and favoring habitual behaviors at the expense of goal-directed ones (Haushofer and Fehr 2014, p. 862).”
• The causes and consequences of household financial strain: A systematic review (2019, positive): “, 2013) and favouring habitual behaviours over ones more appropriate to changed circumstances (Haushofer and Fehr, 2014).”
• Financial literacy and fraud detection* (2019, positive): “For example, Mani et al. (2013), Haushofer & Fehr (2014), Deck & Jahedi (2015), Schilbach et al. (2016) show that economic decisions worsen with increases in cognitive load.”
• Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps (2016, positive): “Second, poverty-reinforcing behaviors could emerge endogenously due to stress and induced change in preferences (Haushofer & Fehr 2014).”
• Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China (2018, neutral): “The international community has never stopped to narrow the rural-urban gap and eliminate poverty (Mani et al., 2013; Haushofer and Fehr, 2014; Zhang et al., 2015; Tollefson, 2015).”