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dc.contributor.authorThe World Bank
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-09T22:48:08Z
dc.date.available2014-12-09T22:48:08Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationWashington: World Bank, 2015en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-0342-0
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-0344-4
dc.identifier.issn0163-5085
dc.identifier.issn0163-5085
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/374
dc.description.abstractEvery policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking actually works. This year’s World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behavior will make development policy more effective. The Report emphasizes what it calls “the three marks of everyday thinking.” In everyday thinking, people use intuition much more than careful analysis. They employ concepts and tools that prior experience in their cultural world has made familiar. And social emotions and social norms motivate much of what they do. These insights together explain the extraordinary persistence of some social practices, and rapid change in others. They also offer new targets for development policy. A richer understanding of why people save, use preventive health care, work hard, learn, and conserve energy provides a basis for innovative and inexpensive interventions. The insights reveal that poverty not only deprives people of resources but is an environment that shapes decision making, a fact that development projects across the board need to recognize. The insights show that the psychological foundations of decision making emerge at a young age and require social support. The Report applies insights from modern behavioral and social sciences to development policies for addressing poverty, finance, productivity, health, children, and climate change. It demonstrates that new policy ideas based on a richer view of decision-making can yield high economic returns. These new policy targets include: • the choice architecture (for example, the default option) • the scope for social rewards • frames that influence whether or not a norm is activated • information in the form of rules of thumb • opportunities for experiences that change mental models or social norms Finally, the Report shows that small changes in context have large effects on behavior. As a result, discovering which interventions are most effective, and with which contexts and populations, inherently requires an experimental approach. Rigor is needed for testing the processes for delivering interventions, not just the products that are delivered.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWorld Banken_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Development Report;
dc.subjectHealth Scienceen_US
dc.subjectHealth behavioren_US
dc.subjectHealth educationen_US
dc.subjectHealth promotionen_US
dc.titleWorld development report 2015: mind, society, and behavioren_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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