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The crippling thing about growing up poor that stays with you forever
The Washington Post: Poverty has a way of rearing its ugly head, slipping into the cracks in people’s lives when they’re young and then re-emerging later in life. Sometimes it happens in ways that are easily observable—what poor babies are
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How Inequality Leads to Obesity
Pacific Standard: Everyone who has ever turned to their friends Ben and Jerry for solace following a break-up is aware that painful emotions often lead to overeating. Yet when discussing the obesity epidemic among low-income
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Early Poverty Disrupts Link Between Hunger and Eating
How much you eat when you’re not really hungry may depend on how well off your family was when you were a child, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the
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Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor
PBS: Kristen Doerer: How does being poor affect people’s financial decisions? What factors affect their decision making? Dan Ariely: Well, none of us always make the best financial decisions. One of the big lessons from
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Poverty makes financial decisions harder. Behavioral economics can help
PBS: Last month, behavioral economist Dan Ariely and his team at the Center for Advanced Hindsight opened up the Common Cents Lab. Its goal is twofold: to examine how those living in poverty misspend their
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Older Adults Are Bigger Risk Takers in High-Poverty Countries
People’s propensity to take physical, social, legal, or financial risks typically decreases as they age, but not in countries with high poverty and income inequality, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal
