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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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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 Synthesis of Evidence for Policy From Behavioural Science During COVID-19

Nature
December 13, 2023
Kai Ruggeri, Friederike Stock, S. Alexander Haslam, Valerio Capraro, Paulo Boggio, Naomi Ellemers, Aleksandra Cichocka, Karen M. Douglas, David G. Rand, Sander van der Linden, Mina Cikara, Eli J. Finkel, James N. Druckman, Michael J. A. Wohl, Richard E. Petty, Joshua A. Tucker, Azim Shariff, Michele Gelfand, Dominic Packer, Jolanda Jetten, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Katherine Baicker, Alia Crum, Kim A. Weeden, Lucy Napper, Nassim Tabri, Jamil Zaki, Linda Skitka, Shinobu Kitayama, Dean Mobbs, Cass R. Sunstein, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Anna Louise Todsen, Ali Hajian, Sanne Verra, Vanessa Buehler, Maja Friedemann, Marlene Hecht, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Ralitsa Karakasheva, Markus R. Tünte, Siu Kit Yeung, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Žan Lep, Yuki Yamada, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Lucía Macchia, Irina Soboleva, Eugen Dimant, Sandra J. Geiger, Hannes Jarke, Tobias Wingen, Jana B. Berkessel, Silvana Mareva, Lucy McGill, Francesca Papa, Bojana Većkalov, Zeina Afif, Eike K. Buabang, Marna Landman, Felice Tavera, Jack L. Andrews, Aslı Bursalıoğlu, Zorana Zupan, Lisa Wagner, Joaquín Navajas, Marek Vranka, David Kasdan, Patricia Chen, Kathleen R. Hudson, Lindsay M. Novak, Paul Teas, Nikolay R. Rachev, Matteo M. Galizzi, Katherine L. Milkman, Marija Petrović, Jay J. Van Bavel, Robb Willer

What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Habit Formation? Evidence From Exercise and Hygiene

PNAS
April 17, 2023
Anastasia Buyalskaya, Hung Ho, Katherine L. Milkman, Xiaomin Li, Angela L. Duckworth, Colin Camerer

A Guide to Megastudies

PNAS Nexus
October 7, 2022
Angela L. Duckworth, Katherine L. Milkman

A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit

American Journal of Health Promotion
October 4, 2022
Mitesh S. Patel, Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Seung Hyeong Lee, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Angela L. Duckworth

A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing To Boost Volunteering: The Trade-Off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility

Journal of Applied Psychology
September 15, 2022
Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Angela L. Duckworth

A Citywide Experiment Testing the Impact of Geographically Targeted, High-Pay-Off Vaccine Lotteries

Nature Human Behavior
September 1, 2022
Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Sean F. Ellis, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Alison M. Buttenheim, Angela L. Duckworth, Devin Pope, Ala Stanford, Richard Thaler & Kevin G. Volpp

Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates

PLOS ONE
March 30, 2022
Harsha Thirumurthy, Katherine L. Milkman, Kevin G. Volpp, Alison M. Buttenheim, Devin G. Pope

Effects of Ownership Text Message Wording and Reminders on Receipt of an Influenza Vaccination

JAMA Network Open
February 18, 2022
Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA; Katherine L. Milkman, PhD; Angela L. Duckworth, PhD; Dena M. Gromet, PhD; Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA; Gretchen Chapman, PhD

A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies

Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences in The United States of America
February 6, 2022
Katherine Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Mitesh Patel, Heather Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Jseph Kay, Timothy Lee, Jake Rothschild, Jonathan Bogard, Illana Brody, Christopher Chabris, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Jennifer Dannals, Noah Goldstein, Amir Goren, Hal Hershfield, Alex Hirsch, Jillian Hmurovic, Samantha Horn, Dean Karlan, Ariella S. Kristal, Cait Lamberton, Michelle N. Meyer, Allison H. Oakes, Maurice Schweitzer, Maheen Shermohammed, Joachim Talloen, Caleb Warren, Ashley Whillans, Kuldeep Yadav, Julian Zlatev, ,Ron Berman, Chalanda Evans, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Christopher Snider, Jann Spiess, Eli Tsukayama, Lyle Ungar, Christopher Van den Bulte, Kevin Volpp, Angela Duckworth

Effects of Ownership Text Message Wording and Reminders on Receipt of an Influenza Vaccination: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open
February 1, 2022
Alison Buttenheim, Katherine L. Milkman, Angela L. Duckworth, Dena M. Gromet, Mitesh Patel, Gretchen Chapman

When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity

Nature
January 20, 2022
Kirgios EL, Rai A, Chang EH, Milkman KL

Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

Nature
December 8, 2021
Milkman KL, Gromet D, Ho H, Kay JS, Lee TW, Pandiloski P, Park Y, Rai A, Bazerman M, Beshears J, Bonacorsi L, Camerer C, Chang E, Chapman G, Cialdini R, Dai H, Eskreis-Winkler L, Fishbach A, Gross JJ, Horn S, Hubbard A, Jones SJ, Karlan D, Kautz T, Kirgios E, Klusowski J, Kristal A, Ladhania R, Loewenstein G, Ludwig J, Mellers B, Mullainathan S, Saccardo S, Spiess J, Suri G, Talloen JH, Taxer J, Trope Y, Ungar L, Volpp KG, Whillans A, Zinman J, Duckworth AL.

Association Between Statewide Financial Incentive Programs and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

SSRN
September 3, 2021
Harsha Thirumurthy, Katherine L. Milkman, Kevin Volpp, Alison Buttenheim, Devin G Pope

An Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Large-Scale, High-Payoff Vaccine Regret Lotteries

SSRN
August 15, 2021
Katherine L. Milkman, Alison Buttenheim, Angela Duckworth, Kevin Volpp, Linnea Gandhi, Sean Ellis, Heather Graci, Dena Gromet, Rayyan Mobarak, Devin G. Pope, Ala Stanford, Richard H. Thaler

Using fresh starts to nudge increased retirement savings

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
July 22, 2021
John Beshears, Hengchen Dai ,Katherine L.Milkman. Shlomo Benartzi

A megastudy of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor’s appointment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 18, 2021
Milkman KL, Patel MS, Gandhi L, Graci HN, Gromet DM, Ho H, Kay JS, Lee TW, Akinola M, Beshears J, Bogard JE, Buttenheim A, Chabris CF, Chapman GB, Choi JJ, Dai H, Fox CR, Goren A, Hilchey MD, Hmurovic J, John LK, Karlan D, Kim M, Laibson D, Lamberton C, Madrian BC, Meyer MN, Modanu M, Nam J, Rogers T, Rondina R, Saccardo S, Shermohammed M, Soman D, Sparks J, Warren C, Weber M, Berman R, Evans CN, Snider CK, Tsukayama E, Van den Bulte C, Volpp KG, Duckworth AL.