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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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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 Randomized Trial of Theory-Informed Appeals for Organ Donor Registration Using Internet Advertisements

Kidney International Reports
September 12, 2020
Reese PP, Glanz K, Shah A, Mussell A, Levsky S, Shuda L, Shults J, Kessler JB

Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
July 6, 2020
Erika L Kirgios, Edward H Chang, Emma E Levine, Katherine L Milkman, Judd B Kessler

Partners and Alerts in Medication Adherence: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal of General Internal Medicine
March 15, 2018
Judd B. Kessler, PhD; Andrea B. Troxel, ScD; David A. Asch, MD, MBA; Shivan J. Mehta, MD, MBA; Noora Marcus, MA; Raymond Lim, MA; Jingsan Zhu, MS, MBA; William Shrank; Troyen Brennan, MD, MPH; Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

Field study of charitable giving reveals that reciprocity decays over time

National Academy of Sciences
February 7, 2018
Amanda Chuan; Judd B. Kessler, PhD; Katherine L. Milkman, PhD

Incentivizing Organ Donor Registration with Organ Allocation Priority

Health Economics
April 29, 2016
Avraham Stoler, Ph.D.; Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.; Tamar Ashkenazi, Ph.D.; Alvin E. Roth, Ph.D.; Jacob Lavee, M.D.

Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence Among Patients with Diabetes

Journal of General Internal Medicine
April 1, 2016
Peter P. Reese, M.D., M.S.C.E.; Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.; Jalpa A. Doshi, Ph.D.; Joelle Y. Friedman, M.P.A.; Adam S. Mussell, M.A.; Caroline Carney, B.A.; Jingsan Zhu, M.S., M.B.A.; Wenli Wang, M.S.; Andrea B. Troxel, Sc.D.; Peinie Young, Pharm.D.; Victor F. Lawnicki, Ph.D.; Swapnil N. Rajpathak, M.D., Dr.P.H.; Kevin G. Volpp, M.D., Ph.D.

Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care

Annals of Internal Medicine
January 19, 2016
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.; Peter A. Ubel, M.D.; Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.; Gregg S. Meyer, M.D., M.Sc., S.M.; Ralph W. Muller, M.A.; Amol S. Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.; Pankaj Patel, M.D., M.Sc.; Robert M. Pearl, M.D.; Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.; Lee B. Sacks, M.D.; Aditi P. Sen, Ph.D.; Paul Sherman, M.D., M.H.A.; Kevin G. Volpp, M.D., Ph.D.

When Will There Be a Gift Exchange?: Addressing the Lab-Field Debate with a Laboratory Gift Exchange Experiment

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4161
April 3, 2013
Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.

Finding the Cost of Control

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4188
April 1, 2013
Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.; Stephen Leider, Ph.D.

The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes

NBER Working Paper No. 18913
March 1, 2013
Keith M. Marzilli Ericson, Ph.D.; Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.

Organ allocation policy and the decision to donate

American Economic Review
August 1, 2012
Judd B. Kessler, Ph.D.; Alvin E. Roth, Ph.D.