Some Consequences of Having Too Little

By Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir. Science, 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Scarcity Polarizes Preferences: The Impact on Choice among Multiple Items in a Product Class (2015, background): “…research showing that a general sense of resource scarcity versus abundance activated in a previous context or formed through deprivation history persists in subsequent, unrelated consumer decision contexts (Griskevicius et al. 2013; Laran and Salerno 2012; Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir 2012).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, methodology): “For example, the poor’s increased willingness to take high-interest loans to meet today’s needs irrespective of the loans’ deferred costs may arise from the attentional neglect to future planning that scarcity gives rise to (Shah et al., 2012).”
On the Psychology of Scarcity: When Reminders of Resource Scarcity Promote Selfish (and Generous) Behavior (2015, background): “…focus toward the resource that is scarce (e.g., a poor individual’s mind will be more occupied by money-related thoughts than a rich individual; Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir 2012) and (ii) that resource scarcity increases the value associated with the resource that is scarce (e.g., money…”
Emergency Saving and Household Hardship (2016, background): “The need to focus on economic survival combined with the increased availability of alternative high-cost credit that may encourage overborrowing or shorten time horizons, makes saving a low priority (Laibson 1997; Schreiner and Sherraden 2007; Shah et al. 2012).”
Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence (2014, background): “Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012) provide another potential explanation in which scarcity causes individuals in poverty to devote more mental effort to meeting daily needs, leaving less attentional resources for other problems—such as perhaps thinking about how to grow their firm.”
The Dark Side of Scarcity Promotions: How Exposure to Limited-Quantity Promotions Can Induce Aggression (2016, positive): “We also theoretically contribute to recent scarcity findings (e.g., Shah et al. 2012) by demonstrating that scarcity promotions can lead consumers to engage in dangerous and antinormative behavior towards others.”
Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya ∗ (2013, neutral): “April 20, 2015”