A BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INSIGHT TO ECONOMIC LIVES OF THE POOR IN TURKEY: A CROSS-SECTION ANALYSIS FOR 2006 AND 2019

Authors : Feyza Ozdinc, Hüseyin Özel

Pages : 698-718

Doi:10.53092/duiibfd.1447476

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Publication Date : 2024-11-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic behavior patterns of the low-income level of people in Turkey. In order to investigate how economically disadvantaged people live in Turkey, a cross-section analysis will be conducted for 2006 and 2019 from the Household Budget Survey, a survey conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). Demographics, how the poor earn their money, how the poor spend their money and their economic and infrastructural environment are going to be explored by sorting data from three different data sets that are included in the Household Budget Survey. The need to study the poor in Turkey rose because like it is around the world poverty is an unresolved issue in this country. Given that the poverty issue remains unsolved, it has become necessary and inevitable to look from a new perspective. Thus, in this study a Behavioral Economics perspective is going to be used to explain the lives of poor people and some policy suggestions will be made.
Keywords : Yoksulluk, davranış kalıpları, kesit analizi, Refah