Editing Behavioral economics (section)

=== Development of Behavioral Economics ===
In 2017, Niels Geiger, a lecturer in economics at the [[University of Hohenheim]] conducted an investigation into the proliferation of behavioral economics.<ref name=":82">{{Cite journal |last=Geiger |first=Niels |date=2017 |title=The Rise of Behavioral Economics: A Quantitative Assessment |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0145553217000177/type/journal_article |journal=Social Science History |language=en |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=555–583 |doi=10.1017/ssh.2017.17 |s2cid=56373713 |issn=0145-5532}}</ref> Geiger's research looked at studies that had quantified the frequency of references to terms specific to behavioral economics, and how often influential papers in behavioral economics were cited in journals on economics.<ref name=":82"/> The quantitative study found that there was a significant spread in behavioral economics after Kahneman and Tversky's work in the 1990s and into the 2000s.<ref name=":82"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Citation Frequency in Economic Journals for Kahneman and Tversky's Studies on Behavioral Economics by 5-Year Periods<ref name=":82"/>
!
!1979 Paper
!1992 Paper
!1974 Paper
!1981 Paper
!1986 Paper
|-
|1974-78
|0
|0
|1
|0
|0
|-
|1979-83
|1
|0
|4
|3
|0
|-
|1984-88
|7
|0
|0
|1
|0
|-
|1989-93
|19
|1
|2
|6
|3
|-
|1993-98
|37
|16
|12
|7
|6
|-
|1999-2003
|51
|20
|5
|15
|11
|-
|2004-08
|80
|48
|18
|15
|16
|-
|2009-13
|161
|110
|59
|38
|19
|-
|Total Citations
|356
|195
|101
|85
|55
|}