诱惑
现金转账
现金
心理干预
公共经济学
安全网
经济
业务
财务
心理学
医学
环境卫生
社会心理学
精神科
作者
Ryan Dwyer,Anita Palepu,Claire Williams,Daniel Daly-Grafstein,Jiaying Zhao
标识
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2222103120
摘要
Homelessness is an economic and social crisis. In a cluster-randomized controlled trial, we address a core cause of homelessness—lack of money—by providing a one-time unconditional cash transfer of CAD$7,500 to each of 50 individuals experiencing homelessness, with another 65 as controls in Vancouver, BC. Exploratory analyses showed that over 1 y, cash recipients spent fewer days homeless, increased savings and spending with no increase in temptation goods spending, and generated societal net savings of $777 per recipient via reduced time in shelters. Additional experiments revealed public mistrust toward the ability of homeless individuals to manage money and demonstrated interventions to increase public support for a cash transfer policy using counter-stereotypical or utilitarian messaging. Together, this research offers a new approach to address homelessness and provides insights into homelessness reduction policies.
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