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The elusive constellations of poverty
Seger M Breugelmans1, Arnoud Plantinga2, Marcel Zeelenberg3
1Department of Social Psychology and Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER),Tilburg University,Warandelaan 2,5037 AB Tilburg,The Netherlands.s.m.breugelmans@uvt.nlhttps://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/s.m.breugelmans/.
Abstract:
Pepper & Nettle describe possible processes underlying what they call a behavioral constellation of deprivation (BCD). Although we are certain about the application of evolutionary models to our understanding of poverty, we are less certain about the utility of behavioral constellations. The empirical record on poverty-related behaviors is much more divergent and broad than such constellations suggest.
