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It's not just about the future: The present payoffs to behaviour vary in degree and kind between the rich and the poor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Rebecca Sear  and
Susan B. Schaffnit
Rebecca Sear
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. rebecca.sear@lshtm.ac.ukhttp://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/sear.rebecca
Susan B. Schaffnit
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. rebecca.sear@lshtm.ac.ukhttp://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/sear.rebecca Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. susie.schaffnit@lshtm.ac.ukhttp://susieschaffnit.wixsite.com/schaffnit
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Abstract

Pepper & Nettle offer a nuanced and humane view on poverty that should be required reading for policy makers, particularly those interested in “behaviour change” policy. We suggest, however, that the emphasis on “future-discounting” in this paper downplays the importance of differences in the payoffs to behaviours in the present and how these payoffs may be realised in different currencies.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e342
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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