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Higher economic inequality intensifies the financial hardship of people living in poverty by fraying the community buffer.
Nature Human Behaviour ( IF 29.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-30 , DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0849-2
Jon M Jachimowicz 1 , Barnabas Szaszi 2 , Marcel Lukas 3 , David Smerdon 4 , Jaideep Prabhu 5 , Elke U Weber 6, 7, 8
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The current research investigates whether higher economic inequality disproportionately intensifies the financial hardship of low-income individuals. We propose that higher economic inequality increases financial hardship for low-income individuals by reducing their ability to rely on their community as a buffer against financial difficulties. This may occur, in part, because a frayed community buffer reduces low-income individuals’ propensity to seek informal financial support from others. We provide empirical support across eight studies (sample size N = 1,029,900) from the United States, Australia and rural Uganda, through correlational and experimental data, as well as an instrumental variable analysis. On average across our studies, a 1 s.d. increase in economic inequality is associated with an increase of financial hardship among low-income individuals of 0.10 s.d. We discuss the implications of these results for policies aimed to help people living in poverty buffer against the adverse effects higher economic inequality imposes on them.



中文翻译:

加剧的经济不平等加剧了社区缓冲的状况,加剧了贫困人口的经济困难。

当前的研究调查的是,较高的经济不平等程度是否加剧了低收入人群的经济困难。我们建议,较高的经济不平等状况会降低低收入者依靠社区的能力来缓解财务困难,从而增加其经济困难。之所以会发生这种情况,部分原因是磨损的社区缓冲区减少了低收入人士寻求他人非正式资金支持的倾向。我们提供八项研究的经验支持(样本量N = 1,029,900)来自美国,澳大利亚和乌干达农村,通过相关和实验数据以及工具变量分析。平均而言,在我们的研究中,经济不平等每增加1 sd,低收入人群的经济困难就会增加0.10 sd。我们讨论了这些结果对旨在帮助贫困人口减轻不利影响的政策的影响经济不平等加剧。

更新日期:2020-04-24
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