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Definitive data on what poor people buy when they’re just given cash
- DrScump 10y ago"...studies that surveyed whether respondents reported.." In other words, in these studies, they gave poor people money and then asked them what they spent it on, with no objective monitoring of actual spending. Is anybody surprised that the recipients did not report that they increased spending on alcohol or tobacco? This is a definition of "definitive data" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
- brudgers 10y agoWhen a scientist reports some new finding, the standard is not whether the government has been objectively monitoring their actual experiment. Instead the same assumption is in play: most people tend to tell the truth. Between the two contexts of science and poverty, the social and economic incentives toward misreporting are objectively higher in the former than the latter.