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Economic Inequality and Risk Taking

经济不平等和冒险

基本信息

批准号：
1729446
负责人：
Brian Payne
金额：
$ 39.8万
依托单位：
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1729446&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Economic Inequality Risk Taking

项目摘要

In the last half century, economic inequality in the United States and in many other developed economies has increased dramatically. The top 0.1% of Americans now holds as much wealth as the bottom 90%. Researchers across the social sciences, and stakeholders across the political spectrum, have emphasized how growing inequality may pose threats to the social fabric of society and to the health and well-being of individuals within it. This project aims to understand how changes in the inequality of an income distribution affects the decision making of individuals. The specific hypothesis guiding this project is that higher levels of inequality encourage high risk / high reward decision strategies. Such strategies can have both benefits (for those who receive high rewards) and costs (for those who lose due to high risk). The project will use six behavioral experiments to establish the cause and effect relationship between inequality in economic outcomes and decision making strategies. The project will also employ an analysis of large-scale data from government sources (Census, US Department of Labor) and internet search data to examine the relationship between economic inequality and risk taking in everyday life. This "big data" approach will extend findings from the laboratory to consequential types of risky decisions, including financial decisions (such as taking pay day loans) as well as health decisions (such as smoking or drug use). This research will shed light on how and why economic inequality changes people's priorities when making decisions, with consequences for the health and well-being of individuals and societies.

在过去的半个世纪里，美国和许多其他发达经济体的经济不平等现象急剧增加。美国最富有的0.1%的人现在拥有的财富相当于最底层的90%。社会科学领域的研究人员和政治领域的利益相关者强调，日益严重的不平等可能对社会的社会结构以及社会中个人的健康和福祉构成威胁。本项目旨在了解收入分配不平等的变化如何影响个人的决策。指导这个项目的具体假设是，更高水平的不平等鼓励高风险/高回报的决策策略。这种策略既有好处（对于那些获得高回报的人），也有成本（对于那些因高风险而失败的人）。该项目将使用六个行为实验来建立经济结果不平等与决策策略之间的因果关系。该项目还将采用来自政府来源（人口普查，美国劳工部）和互联网搜索数据的大规模数据分析，以研究经济不平等与日常生活中的风险之间的关系。这种“大数据”方法将把实验室的发现扩展到各种风险决策，包括财务决策（如领取发薪日贷款）以及健康决策（如吸烟或吸毒）。这项研究将揭示经济不平等如何以及为什么会改变人们在决策时的优先事项，从而对个人和社会的健康和福祉产生影响。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（2）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Historical roots of implicit bias in slavery

DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1818816116
发表时间：
2019-06-11
期刊：
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Payne, B. Keith;Vuletich, Heidi A.;Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin L.
通讯作者：
Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin L.

Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality

减少收入不平等的认知障碍