"Small Miracles" --Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy

Demeritt, Allison ; Hoff, Karla

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: ACHIEVEMENT;    AGED;    AGGRESSIVE;    ANXIETY;    ATTENTION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7197
RP-ID  :  WPS7197

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

One of the most fruitful advances inmodern economics has been the introduction of psychologicalrealism into the model of "economic man." TheWorld Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence abouthow humans actually think and make decisions into a coherentframework useful for designing development policy. Thispaper elaborates on the three principles of human thinkingthat constitute the report's intellectual framework:Human thinking is dual process -- automatic as well asdeliberative (thinking automatically); it is conditioned bysocial context and the salience of social identities(thinking socially); and it is shaped by mental models thatare socially constructed (thinking with mental models).Behavioral insights create scope for policy interventionsthat produce "miracles" from the perspective oftraditional economics.