Cristina Bicchieri is the S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also director of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics (normsandbehavior.sas.upenn.edu/). She was knighted by the...
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we are conducting a longitudinal field experiment in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working mothers, a population who is especially likely to experience severe time poverty. Participants receive vouchers for services designed to reduce their burden of unpaid labor. The effect of these vouchers are compared against equivalently valued unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) and a neutral control condition. Using a pre-post design, we...
