Cash aid has clear appeal in addressing poverty and food insecurity. it offers the recipient autonomy, and efficiency and ease of delivery for donors. This blog draws lessons from research into how recipients experience cash aid versus in-kind food aid, and offers advice on how to improve the experience for people in need … More Is “In Kind” Kinder than Cash?
Nudges to make tax credit claims easier as an anti-poverty tactic just shift attention from the gorilla. The promotion of policies based on tweaking choice architecture risks becoming a new ‘trickle down’ mantra, for the sake of very marginal gains. Tania Burchardt responds to the article in the October 2022 issue of the journal by Kendra Tully “Odd bedfellows: How choice architecture can enhance autonomy and mitigate inequality” … More Did you miss the gorilla? Choice architecture is not the solution to inequality