Human beings tend to make irrational economic decisions when they are free to focus on the irrelevant details of the purchases they make. The reason was the fact that scarcity breeds rationality, found in a study by University of Chicago.
Their findings have implications for individuals facing their own budgetary choices and for policymakers working with budget constrained communities around the world.
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The researchers began their inquiry with a finding from a 1985 study that showed participants were willing to pay a premium to buy a beer from a fancy beach resort but offered less money for the same beer when it was available from a corner grocery store.
That study concluded that most people draw on contextual clues to determine how much they should pay for an item, with less regard than economics would suggest for an objective analysis of the intrinsic value of the purchase.
![Inconsistent Datasets Used by Policymakers and Scientists for Public Health Analyses]( "Inconsistent Datasets Used by Policymakers and Scientists for Public Health Analyses")
Datasets that are commercially available and contain a wealth of information about food and alcohol establishments are found to differ significantly.
Through a series of surveys, the researchers determined that people with less time or money to spare are better able to focus on what the purchase might be worth to them.
They wrote that when money is short, the utility bill or rent is top of mind. These concerns make trade-offs or opportunity costs highly accessible, buy one thing means giving up other things. People compare the beer to other demands on their budget like tomorrow's lunch of bus fare and these trade-offs do not depend on where the beer is purchased. These trade-offs lead them to ignore irrelevant contextual cues and instead rely on our own standards.
They were also able to determine that shortages of time and convenience had similar effects on reasoning. In practice, they conjecture, this might explain why policymakers who spend a lot of time highlighting the positive effects of mosquito bed nets in poor areas stricken by malaria are unsuccessful. Scarcity reasoning means that the intended recipients of this good advice must give far more weight to the prices of those nets, relative to their other needs.
Source: ANI
Inconsistent Datasets Used by Policymakers and Scientists for Public Health Analyses
Datasets that are commercially available and contain a wealth of information about food and alcohol establishments are found to differ significantly.
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Through a series of surveys, the researchers determined that people with less time or money to spare are better able to focus on what the purchase might be worth to them.
They wrote that when money is short, the utility bill or rent is top of mind. These concerns make trade-offs or opportunity costs highly accessible, buy one thing means giving up other things. People compare the beer to other demands on their budget like tomorrow's lunch of bus fare and these trade-offs do not depend on where the beer is purchased. These trade-offs lead them to ignore irrelevant contextual cues and instead rely on our own standards.
They were also able to determine that shortages of time and convenience had similar effects on reasoning. In practice, they conjecture, this might explain why policymakers who spend a lot of time highlighting the positive effects of mosquito bed nets in poor areas stricken by malaria are unsuccessful. Scarcity reasoning means that the intended recipients of this good advice must give far more weight to the prices of those nets, relative to their other needs.
Source: ANI
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