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 …

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

This article explores the impact of the Russian-Ukraine war on the metals, conventional
energy, and renewable energy markets, by using an event research technique. The data …

In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and
misleading news on social media,,–. Academics and practitioners alike have asked why …

We synthesize the literature on the recent rise of populism. First, we discuss definitions and
present descriptive evidence on the recent increase in support for populists. Second, we …

Examining a shock to the salience of the sustainability of the US mutual fund market, we
present causal evidence that investors marketwide value sustainability: being categorized …

We provide evidence that classic lottery anomalies like probability weighting and loss
aversion are not special phenomena of risk. They also arise (and often with equal strength) …

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

Can machine learning improve human decision making? Bail decisions provide a good test
case. Millions of times each year, judges make jail-or-release decisions that hinge on a …

We examine whether professional money managers overreact to large climatic disasters.
We find that managers within a major disaster region underweight disaster zone stocks to a …