Martin Lewis: How much the Govt expects parents to give their children while at university 2021/22
The new university term is starting for many, and millions of supposedly independent students will be heading off. In fact, though the system doesn't say students are independent, the system incorporates an expected 'parental contribution' to their finances.
Martin Lewis: I confess, I did a 'decoy effect' experiment on my Twitter and Facebook followers… and it may be why they're buying more Jaffa Cakes
Behavioural economics is a powerful science. Some retailers are undoubtedly using it to make us pay more to get less. One element is the 'decoy effect' – where a higher-priced item is sold, to make items next to it look like bargains. So I wanted to do a little experiment to test it.
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