Alan Dix Snip!t: Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol

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Snip summary	A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol — Quartz http://qz.com/...e-data-on-what-poor-people-buy-when-theyre-just-given-cash/?...

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A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the

Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol — Quartz: http://qz.com/...e-data-on-what-poor-people-buy-when-theyre-just-given-cash/?...

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Full snip	A recently published research paper (paywall) by David Evans of the World Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that giving money to the poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco and alcohol. Evans and Popova’s research is based on an examination of nineteen studies that assess the impact of cash transfers on expenditures of tobacco and alcohol. Not one of the 19 studies found that cash grants increase tobacco and alcohol consumption and many of them found that it leads to a reduction.

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A recently published research paper (paywall) by David Evans of the World Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that giving money to the poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco and alcohol. Evans and Popova’s research is based on an examination of nineteen studies that assess the impact of cash transfers on expenditures of tobacco and alcohol. Not one of the 19 studies found that cash grants increase tobacco and alcohol consumption and many of them found that it leads to a reduction.

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