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

Year 2024, Volume: 14 Issue: 28, 698 - 718

Feyza Ozdinc , Hüseyin Özel

https://doi.org/10.53092/duiibfd.1447476

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

Poverty, behavioral patterns, Cross-section analysis, Welfare.

TÜRKİYE'DEKİ DÜŞÜK GELİR GRUBUNUN EKONOMİK HAYATLARININ DAVRANIŞSAL EKONOMİ AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ: 2006 VE 2019 YILLARI İÇİN KESİT ANALİZİ

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı Türkiye'deki düşük gelir grubunda bulunan insanların ekonomik davranış kalıplarını araştırmaktır. Ekonomik açıdan dezavantajlı kişilerin Türkiye'de nasıl yaşadığını araştırmak amacıyla Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) tarafından yürütülen Hanehalkı Bütçe Araştırması'ndan 2006 ve 2019 yılları için kesit analizi yapılacaktır.
Hanehalkı Bütçe Anketi'nde yer alan üç farklı veri setinden elde edilen veriler sıralanarak demografik bilgiler, yoksulların paralarını nasıl kazandığı, yoksulların paralarını nasıl harcadıkları, ekonomik ve altyapısal ortamları açıklanacaktır.
Yoksulluğun tüm dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de çözülmemiş bir sorun olması nedeniyle bu ülkede yoksulların araştırılmasına duyulan ihtiyaç artmış bulunmakta ve bu ihtiyaç her geçen gün derinleşmektedir. Yoksulluk sorununu henüz çözülemediğinden dolayı bu konuya yeni bir perspektiften bakmak gerekli ve kaçınılmaz hale gelmiş bulunmaktadır. Dolayısıyla bu çalışmada yoksul insanların yaşamlarını açıklamak için Davranışsal İktisat perspektifi kullanılacak ve bazı politika önerilerinde bulunulacaktır.

Keywords

Yoksulluk, davranış kalıpları, kesit analizi., Refah

Thanks

The head author expresses her gratitude to UNU-WIDER and Dr. Kalle Hirvonen for their contributions.

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