The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor

By Abhijit Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan. 2010

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Empirical and Policy Implications (2013, background): “That mechanism yields natural resource degradation poverty traps wherein small farmers endowed with marginal or fragile soils have no incentive to apply fertilisers or to invest in soil conservation measures, creating a downward spiral of deteriorating soils, lower productivity and persistent povert”
Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods: A Review of Global Evidence (2014, unknown): “Alcohol and tobacco have been referred to as “temptation goods” (Dasso and Fernandez 2013), a term used by Banerjee & Mullainathan (2010) to refer to “goods that generate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for any previous self that anticipates that they will be consumed in…”
Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps (2016, background): “However, as Barrett & Carter (2013) note, multiple equilibria can emerge if the behavior can be changed through “nudges” (Banerjee & Mullainathan 2010, Thaler & Sunstein 2009).”
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia (2011, background): “Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster and Kinnan (2010) randomly phase in access to joint-liability microcredit in the Indian city of Hyderabad.”
Locus of Control and Savings (2016, methodology): “…self-control if willpower is more costly when consumption is low (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988), if imperfect credit markets limit the usefulness of self-control (Bernheim et al., 2013), or if the marginal propensity to spend on temptation goods falls as consumption rises (Banerjee & Mullainathan, 2010).”
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster (2013, methodology): “This adjustment may manifest in altered consumption, e.g., via changes in eating habits (Subramanian and Deaton (1996); Jensen and Miller (2008)), or it may manifest as a reduction in investments, such as to human capital (Mincer (1958); Jensen (2000); Banerjee and Mullainathan (2010))6.”
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves (2013, unknown): “Grant Miller CHP/PCOR Stanford University”
Self-Control and the Development of Work Arrangements (2010, unknown): “Bandiera et al. (2009) find evidence that workers’ productivity is influenced by the relative productivity of their friends whereas the results we describe are for randomly assigned peers— friends or otherwise.”