Shorter Lives with Poor Health: The Toll on Spain’s Less Educated Population

Poor diet takes toll on health of US population.

Poor diet takes toll on health of US population A study tracking health over two decades finds a striking gap in the United States between length of life and quality of life. Americans are living sicker, longer, compared with populations in many other developed countries, where people are making strides in extending their years of good health. While life expectancy has increased, the stretch of...

U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.

Impact of savings groups on the lives of the poor.

Savings-led microfinance programs operate in poor rural communities in developing countries to establish groups that save and then lend out the accumulated savings to each other. Nonprofit organizations train villagers to create and lead these groups. In a clustered randomized evaluation spanning three African countries (Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda), we find that the promotion of these community-...

The Psychological Lives of the Poor.

There is growing interest in understanding the psychology of the poor—biases that may affect decision-making are of particular interest. The sheer diversity of potential biases—hyperbolic discounting, probabilistic, and judgmental errors just to name a few—poses a key challenge. These psychological biases cannot easily be put into a common unit such as money spent. However, two insights from ps...

The Economic Lives of the Microfinanced Poor

This paper uses a household survey conducted with 107 women in Mukono, Uganda receiving microcredit from BRAC, a globally renowned Microfinance Institution. Firstly, I aim to quantify differences between the residents of the district and the recipients of microcredit. Secondly, I will present descriptive analysis of the economic lifestyles of the BRAC respondents. Finally, I will analyze the re...