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. Learn more about CHIBE through our one-pager here.
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Events
Dylan Small, PhD @ HP/CHIBE Work-In-Progress Research Seminar
May 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Online“Neighborhood racial composition and gun homicides.” Virtual Seminar with Dylan Small, P...
Dear Pandemic: Those Nerdy Girls at the Infodemiology Frontlines
May 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at OnlineMay 26, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Zoom Hosted by FOCUS Dr. Alison Buttenheim is a co-founder and Chief Ma...
John Hoddinott, PhD @ HP/CHIBE Work-In-Progress Research Seminar Series
May 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm at Online“Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence f...
