Assumptions About Behavior and Choice in Response to Public Assistance: A Behavioral Decision Analysis

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 137-143

  Hall, Crystal C ^a   Galvez, Martha M ^b   Sederbaum, Isaac M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral economics; judgment and decision making; psychology; public policy; social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939576146     PISSN: 23727322     EISSN: 23727330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2372732214550833     Document Type: Article

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