At the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, researchers investigate how the science of behavioral economics can improve health outcomes.
What is Behavioral Economics?
Behavioral economics is a field of inquiry that uses principles of economics and psychology to understand how individuals make decisions and uses those insights to try to help people make choices that are consistent with their own long-term interests.
Who Are We?
Drawing on the expertise of faculty from across the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) conducts behavioral economics research aimed at reducing the disease burden from major U.S. public health problems. Originally founded within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, our mission is to inform health policy, improve healthcare delivery and increase healthy behavior.
Recent Publications
Events
HP/CHIBE Work-in-Progress Research Seminar
January 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at 416-417 Stemmler HallCourtney Boen, PhD Assistant Professor of Sociology, Axilrod Faculty Fellow of Sociology, University...
HP/CHIBE Work-in-Progress Research Seminar
February 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Colonial Penn CenterNeale Mahoney, PhD, ScD Professor of Economics I David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicag...
HP/CHIBE Work-in-Progress Research Seminar
February 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Colonial Penn CenterSally Clark Stearnes, PhD, MSc Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of North Caroli...
