International development policy is ripe for an overhaul.Behavioral science can help policy makers to spur changes in behaviors that are difficult to explain from a conventional economic perspective and impede economic development. The authors focus here on two well-documented, often coinciding psychological phenomena that have particularly wide ranging implications for development policy: present bias(favoring immediate rewards over long-term considerations)and...
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2017/01/01
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Documento de trabajo
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2017/10/03
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Overcoming behavioral obstacles to escaping poverty
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behavioral science