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.


Where We Work
Since 2008, CHIBE has worked with a multitude of private and public sector partners to develop and test scalable and cost-effective interventions that have improved the health of tens of millions of individuals. We’ve worked with a variety of groups, including health systems, clinicians, communities, individuals, non-governmental organizations, consumer companies, governments, and health insurers.
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. Download our CHIBE one-pager here.
Recent Publications
Events
Leandro Carvahlo, PhD | HP X CHIBE Hybrid Research Seminar
February 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Hybrid: 1104 Blockley Hall or https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407“Genetics and Economic Success” with Leandro Carvalho, PhD | Economist at the Center f...
Christina Gibson-Davis, PhD | HP X CHIBE Hybrid Research Seminar
February 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Hybrid: 1104 Blockley Hall or https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407“Net Worth Poverty and Adult Health” with Christina Gibson-Davis, PhD, Professor of Publi...
Chloe East, PhD | CHIBE X LDI Research Seminar
March 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Colonial Penn Center AuditoriumChloe N. East, PhD | Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver 12:00p.m....