Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?
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- Stefan Dercon & Kate Orkin & Mahreen Mahmud & Robert Garlick & Johannes Haushofer & Richard Sedlmayr, 2023. "Aspiring to a better future: can a simple psychological intervention reduce poverty?," CSAE Working Paper Series 2023-12, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
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JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DES-2023-10-30 (Economic Design)
- NEP-EXP-2023-10-30 (Experimental Economics)
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