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Description: The Deliberative Lives project seeks to provide a rich, in-depth understanding of how households evaluate options and make decisions under financial scarcity. Qualitative and quantitative methods and diverse data collection strategies will be employed in order to both describe how deliberation unfolds under the constraints of poverty and to examine the contributions of particular socioeconomic, interpersonal, and psychological features that shape this process. This project is particularly innovative in its high frequency, dynamic approach to tracking the decision-making processes of low-income households over time and in its open and transparent approach to the research process.