This brief examines data from 20,095 students with one or more forms of basic needs insecurity (BNI) (i.e., food insecurity, housing insecurity, homelessness) from Trellis’ Fall 2020 Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS) with a special lens on their mental health. With more than one-third...

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of ¬ 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

This paper investigates peer effects in the academic achievement of Costa Rican students. Two measures of peer effects are used: (1) a measure of a schools' average socioeconomic status and (2) a measure of unsatisfied basic needs at district level. The estimation of a three-level hierarchical...

This research article seeks to specify and measure the determinants of multidimensional poverty in Colombia using the Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN) Index based on information from the latest available 2005 population census applying a spatial econometric approach. An exploratory analysis of the...

Nachhaltige Entwicklung hat sich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten zu einem allgegenwärtigen Terminus und einem der zentralen Leitbilder in Politik, Zivilgesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft entwickelt. Dabei besteht bis heute keine Einigkeit darüber, was unter nachhaltiger Entwicklung...

A sustainable and resilient economy is one that enables every individual to have full and equal access to what she/he needs to live a sufficient and flourishing life. Post-war welfare states went some way towards achieving such access, but they have been heavily undermined, both ideologically...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains (SCs) have been exposed to their greatest disruption in recent memory. This unprecedented situation has given rise to the concept of SC survivability, which is based on the need to find a new temporary equilibrium allowing to SCs to survive...

Unser wirtschaftliches Denken - über Konsum, Kapital, Profit - stammt aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Und ist unbrauchbar geworden. Wie die Historikerin Annette Kehnel anhand von Beispielen deutlich macht: Ein Blick auf die vormoderne Geschichte der Menschheit offenbart Anregungen für unsere...

Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London's Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume's first...

Achieving a sustainable consumption and production pattern is one of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals for 2030. To achieve this, it is necessary to consider the environmental burden from a product life cycle and the quality of life of the consumer. In this study, a systematic...

An appreciation of poverty that is as complete as possible constitutes an essential step in the analysis of the causes of poverty and in the formulation of policies to combat it. The monetary approach is not sufficient to capture the multiple aspects of poverty: a multidimensional analysis is...