Stress and cognitive burden associated with poverty constrain decision- making regarding investments in the future, which can in turn perpetuate poverty.

We investigate the relationship between food insecurity and psychological distress among a sample of poor households in Lebanon.

An experiment on social influence in risk-taking among endogenously formed groups in rural Malawi finds decisions by peers are most influential to participants.

Household economists have recently begun to use laboratory experiments to study behavior between spouses. While several connect inefficiency in the lab to specific constraints on decision-making (e.g.

Though the differential impacts of earned and unearned income have long been of interest to economists and policymakers, the study of this question is often conflated by other differences between the income streams.