Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

• The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  People, Scarcity, Littles

  "Being poor changes your thinking about everything". Interview with Harold Pollack, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

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  New Year, Self, Years

  "Get Some Sleep, and Wake Up the G.D.P." by Sendhil Mullainathan, www.nytimes.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

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  Real, Pensamiento, Mundo

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• Coma mejor o haga más ejercicio, y verá los beneficios en semanas, meses o años. Duerme más y verás los beneficios mañana.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  Sleep, Years, Work Out

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• The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

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  Powerful, Tools, Ability

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• Ante la escasez de tiempo, apretamos las tareas en los recovecos de nuestro calendario, dejando cada vez menos tiempo para alternar entre ellas. El resultado es que cada vez somos menos productivos justo cuando más lo necesitamos.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  Leaving, Tasks, Needs

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