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Professor Eldar Shafir studies how scarcity leads to bad financial decisions, making poverty even harder to escape. He conducted some of his research in a shopping mall.

Psychology: Why Decisions Suffer When We Go Without

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Scarcity, says Professor Eldar Shafir, taxes the mind and makes it hard to think

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