What is it about?
This article reviews the literature on the psychological effects of poverty to argue that the social safety net should be expanded. It argues that the punitive trend in welfare reform has likely made poverty traps worse.
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Why is it important?
Many people have wrongly assumed that the behavioural insights movement provides intellectual justification for harsh and paternalistic treatment of people on low incomes.
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This page is a summary of: Using Behavioural Insights to Argue for a Stronger Social Safety Net: Beyond Libertarian Paternalism, Journal of Social Policy, October 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0047279416000672.
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Resources
Beyond nudging: it’s time for a second generation of behaviourally-informed social policy
Post published on the London School of Economics British Politics & Policy blog, 10 November 2016
Policy Insights for Policy and Service Delivery: Scarcity
Presentation by Katherine Curchin and Nicholas Biddle to the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet, 8th October 2018.
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