Development Economics (Audio)

What do we know about how extremely poor families earn their money?  This video focuses on families earning $2 a day or less.

One of my favorite papers in development economics is an empirical look at how poor families spend their money; let's take a look at what that paper says.

Sometimes the poor have so many problems that all of them go unfixed.  Decision-making at the margin doesn't always operate in their favor and here is a look at why.

The stress of being poor can take a toll on decision-making and cognitive skills.  This video is a look at some recent research on how this might be a big problem.