Science v. World Poverty
July 31, 2015
The behavioral and social sciences have yielded benefits in the United States in areas such as national security, health care, and education, as described in Issues. In advances on the global stage, reported in the Wall Street Journal, new bands of scientific “randomistas” are adopting data-driven programs drawn largely from psychology and behavioral economics to help poor people save more, live better, and scramble up in their own way.