Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

By Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir. 2013

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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The ethics of nudging: An overview (2020, background): “Yet people of lower socioeconomic status often have comparatively less cognitive bandwidth to spare and sometimes—out of necessity—rely on more short-term decision-making (Morton, 2017; Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013; Tully, 2019).”
The dark side of meaning-making: How social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking (2017, background): “Interracial tensions (Edu, 2014), social and economic inequality (Swencionis & Fiske, 2016), and poverty (Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013) create the type of exclusionary environments in which conspiracy theories and superstitious beliefs are likely to flourish.”
Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, neutral): “On the other hand, future feelings seem vague and uncertain.. 30 Mullainathan and Shafir, 2013; Mani et al., 2013.”
A bricolage perspective on service innovation (2017, background): “As a counterproductive side effect, resource scarcity can also lead to a tunnel effect, in which individuals neglect factors that might be important for innovation (Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013).”
Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad (2015, background): “Given the constraints that innovators in emerging economies face, a particularly productive line of inquiry would be to examine how these significant limitations can, in certain cases, spur creative action (see also Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013).”
How Financial Constraints Influence Consumer Behavior: An Integrative Framework (2018, background): “For example, consumers cope with resource scarcity by becoming more efficient with their resources (Mullainathan & Shafir, 2013) and attempting to reestablish control (Cannon et al., 2018).”
Psychological characteristics and household savings behavior: The importance of accounting for latent heterogeneity (2018, background): “Another recent perspective is that poverty forces people to spend time thinking about what they do not have, leaving less mental bandwidth for more abstract thought, such as planning for the future (Mullainathan and Shafir, 2013).”