Skip to content
Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
  1. Research

Publications

Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

A pilot randomized clinical trial of gamification to increase medication adherence

American Heart Journal
March 7, 2026
Alexander C Fanaroff, Kayla Clark, Leslie Reid-Bey, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Laurie Norton, Kevin G Volpp

A Machine Learning Model to Improve Risk Adjustment Accuracy in Medicare

Health Services Research
March 5, 2026
Daniel K. Shenfeld, Lindsay Warrenburg, Eli Silvert, Matthew Guido, Maggie Makar, Karen Joynt Maddox, Amol S. Navathe, Ravi Bharat Parikh, Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Private Equity Acquisition and Buprenorphine Prescribing

JAMA Network
March 2, 2026
Taylor Holdaway, Susan H Busch, Jackson Reimer, Tamara Beetham, David A Fiellin, Marissa King

Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment

Appetite
March 2, 2026
Sophia V Hua, Christina A Roberto, Emily Yam, Eliza Leone, Laura A Gibson, Eric B Rimm

The Effects Of Labor Unions On Nurse Staffing Ratios And Quality Of Care In US Nursing Homes, 2013-21

Health Affairs
March 1, 2026
Adam Dean, Jamie McCallum, Atheendar S Venkataramani, Paula Chatterjee, Norma B Coe, David Michaels

Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients: a qualitative sub-study of a randomized clinical trial

Social Science & Medicine
March 1, 2026
Laura A Gibson, Aaron Richterman, Aaliyah Randall, Jonathan Muruako, Beth Uzwiak, Eva Fabian, Harsha Thirumurthy, Christina A Roberto

Major US Formulary Change Triggers, but Does Not Sustain, Increases in Biosimilar Adalimumab Prescribing

Arthritis Care & Research
March 1, 2026
Eric T Roberts, Gabriela Schmajuk, Mackenzie Clark, Diana Ung, Jinoos Yazdany

Linkage of Emergency Department Patients With Public Benefits Navigators via Text Messages: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Health Forum
February 26, 2026
Austin S Kilaru, Aliza Haider, Joseph Harrison, Erica L Dixon, Lauren Southwick, Melissa Berkowitz, Charles Rareshide, Conor Carroll, Clayton Kaledin, Grace McDermott, Michael Mehta, Alisa J Stephens Shields, Wendy De La Rosa, Anish K Agarwal, Raina M Merchant

Clinician nudge to gynecologic oncology referral at suspected ovarian cancer diagnosis: a pilot study

Cancer Control
February 19, 2026
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, Shivan J Mehta, Tessa Cook, Charlie Chambers, Shavon Rochester, Hanna Zafar, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth A Howell, Anne Marie McCarthy, Justin Bekelman

On Anticipation Effect in Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials

Statistics in Medicine
February 10, 2026
Hao Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Katherine R Courtright, Scott D Halpern, Michael O Harhay, Monica Taljaard, Fan Li

Improving Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy for Patients Admitted for Asthma Exacerbation

Pediatric Quality and Safety
February 1, 2026
Katherine A Pumphrey, Jessica K Hart, Joseph J Zorc, Michelle B Dunn, Colleen M Shannon, Levon H Utidjian, Chén C Kenyon

Using big data to uncover the causes of dementia

Nature Health
January 30, 2026
Jason Fletcher, Atheendar Venkataramani & David H. Rehkopf

Potential prevalence of front-of-package labels on packaged foods in a supermarket chain in the Northeast United States under two proposed labeling systems

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
January 12, 2026
Joshua Petimar, C. Ross Hatton, Yutong Zhang, Alyssa J. Moran, Anna H. Grummon, Lauren P. Cleveland, Jason P. Block, Aviva A. Musicus

Sequential choice vs colonoscopy outreach for colorectal cancer screening: Design and rationale of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials
January 12, 2026
Shivan J. Mehta, Pamela A. Shaw, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin Brophy, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Abraham Segura, Jinming Tao, Christopher K. Snider, Colin Wollack, Sadie Friday, Katharine A. Rendle, Tamar Klaiman, Karen Glanz, Corinne Rhodes, David A. Asch

Characterising concerns and misinformation shaping global HIV vaccine confidence and demand: a structured literature search and content analysis

BMJ Global Health
January 8, 2026
Simamkele Bokolo, Megan Rabin, Sarah Penuela-Wermers, Candice Maylene Chetty-Makkan, Teniola I. Egbe, Harsha Thirumurthy, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Alison Buttenheim

The impact of restaurant menu eco labels on consumer meal selections: a randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
January 8, 2026
Alexandria E. Reimold, Jennifer Falbe, Brent F. Kim, Aviva A. Musicus, Nina Carr, Raychel Santo, Clara Cho, Cindy W. Leung, Christina A. Roberto, Julia A. Wolfson