Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...

Behavioral economics, like “lived experience,” existed long before anyone thought a special and seemingly redundant name was required. To Adam Smith, economics was made of human behavior in all its ...

As the column’s name suggests, Thaler set out to challenge standard economic thinking by testing economic anomalies—in other words, what happens when our irrational, some might say human, selves are ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

While retirement and recordkeeping firms manage more than $40 trillion in assets, representing almost one-third of U.S. household financial wealth, a troubling disconnect persists: participant ...

Behavioral economics has emerged as an influential theoretical framework for analyzing household decision-making processes that impact environmental sustainability, social equity, and economic ...

This fall’s Foltyn Seminar brought together a leading expert in behavioral economics and key figures of community programs in Delaware to better understand how individuals make decisions and how those ...

Discover how behavioral economics blends insights from psychology and economics to explain why people often make irrational financial decisions. This clear and engaging video breaks down key concepts ...

In a conversation with The Regulatory Review, physician–economist Kevin Volpp discusses how behavioral economics can inform the design of interventions to promote healthier decision-making and improve ...

The latest readings on consumer sentiment are sounding alarms across the financial world. While hard data on the economy can be negative, only when consumer optimism drops do we see a decrease in ...

Behavioral economics offers valuable insights into why humans fall for phishing. Behavioral economics is a field of study applied to human behavior in an attempt to explain why we do the things we do.