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Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan is an economist who studies behavioral economics, poverty and the use of data in decision making. With Eldar Shafir he wrote Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013), and with Anuj Shah and Shafir he published a 2012 study in Science on how scarcity changes behavior. Parts of the wider scarcity research are debated, which we note where relevant. This page lists our articles, quizzes and videos that draw on his work, with links to the original papers.

Quizzes on this topic

ScarcityScarcity Mindset ScoreHow does having too little money, time or energy change the way you think?This quiz looks at how a shortage of money, time or energy shapes your attention and choices, and through which door: tunneling on what is pressing, neglecting what is not, borrowing from later, a taxed mind, or a lack of slack. It describes how attention behaves under scarcity, not how well anyone is coping.10 questions · 4 min