scholarly journals Can Positive Psychology Improve Psychological Well-Being and Economic Decision-Making? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1345-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Baranov ◽  
Johannes Haushofer ◽  
Chaning Jang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Economic Decision Making

scholarly journals Behavioral Economics: A Primer and Applications to the UN Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being

Reports ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Robert Siegel ◽  
Katelyn Gordon ◽  
Linda Dynan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health And Well Being

Behavioral economics (BE) is a relatively new field within economics that incorporates insights from psychology that can be harnessed to improve economic decision making with the potential to enhance good health and well-being of individuals and societies, the third of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. While some of the psychological principles of economic decision making were described as far back as the 1700s by Adam Smith, BE emerged as a discipline in the 1970s with the groundbreaking work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. We describe the basic concepts of BE, heuristics (decision-making shortcuts) and their associated biases, and the BE strategies framing, incentives, and economic nudging to overcome these biases. We survey the literature to identify how BE techniques have been employed to improve individual choice (focusing on childhood obesity), health policy, and patient and healthcare provider decision making. Additionally, we discuss how these BE-based efforts to improve health-related decision making can lead to sustaining good health and well-being and identify additional health-related areas that may benefit from including principles of BE in decision making.

Women’s agency in household economic decision making in Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 767-780
Author(s):  
Njeri Kagotho ◽  
Michael G Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Economic Strengthening

The misalignment between economic strengthening opportunities and women’s agency is especially salient given the connection between women’s economic empowerment and household well-being. Using Kenya Demographic Health Survey 2014 data, we examine married women’s agency in household economic decision making. Women who are less likely to characterize abusive patterns of behavior as problematic and women reporting emotional abuse are less likely to report economic autonomy in the household. Furthermore, data indicate little congruence in perceptions of wife’s household economic autonomy between couples. These findings point to the need to understand the interplay among structural factors, gender, marital status, and the financial well-being of married persons.

Economic decision making under conditions of extreme time pressure and option overload: an eye-tracking study

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Reutskaja ◽  
Johannes Pulst-Korenberg ◽  
Rosemarie Nagel ◽  
Colin F. Camerer ◽  
Antonio Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Economic Decision Making
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