We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological
research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention bottom up due to their high …

This article reviews recent results on technology adoption in developing countries, primarily
from field experiments. It focuses on studies that highlight three constraints to adoption …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Inattention is a central, unifying theme for much of behavioral economics. It permeates such
disparate fields as microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, public economics, and …

We show that most US food, drugstore, and mass-merchandise chains charge nearly
uniform prices across stores, despite wide variation in consumer demographics and …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they
take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so …

Consider a researcher estimating the parameters of a regression function based on data for
all 50 states in the United States or on data for all visits to a website. What is the …

Can low-cost marketing tools that are used to enhance business performance also
contribute to creating a better world? The authors investigate the role of online social media …

Building on a textbook description of associative memory, we present a model of choice in
which a choice option cues recall of similar past experiences. Memory shapes valuation and …