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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.

The effects of government-led cash transfer programmes on behavioural and health determinants of mortality: a difference-in-differences study

The Lancet
November 10, 2025
Aaron Richterman, MD; Tra-My Ngoc Bùi, BA; Elizabeth F Bair, MS; Gregory Jerome, MD; Christophe Millien, MD; Jean Christophe Dimitri Suffrin, MMSc; Prof Jere R Behrman, PhD; Prof Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD

Natural Experiments to Inform Clinical Practice

NEJM Evidence
April 22, 2025
Atheendar S Venkataramani, Elizabeth F Bair

Repeal of Subminimum Wages and Social Determinants of Health Among People With Disabilities

JAMA Health Forum
November 1, 2024
Mihir Kakara, Elizabeth F Bair, Atheendar S Venkataramani

A Randomized Trial of Price Subsidies for Liquefied Petroleum Cooking Gas Among Low-Income Households in Rural India

World Development Perspectives
March 10, 2023
Marc Jeuland, Manish A. Desai, Elizabeth F. Bair, Nafeesa Mohideen Abdul Cader, Durairaj Natesan, Wilson Jayakaran Isaac, Sankar Sambandam, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Gurusamy Thangavel, Harsha Thirumurthy

Oral health and oral health care use among able-bodied adults enrolled in Medicaid in Kentucky after Medicaid expansion

The Journal of The American Dental Association
August 25, 2021
Tim T. Wang, Erica L. Dixon, Elizabeth F. Bair, William Ferrell, Kristin Linn, Kristen Underhill, Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Kevin Volpp

Health and Economic Outcomes Associated With COVID-19 in Women at High Risk of HIV Infection in Rural Kenya

JAMA Network
June 17, 2021
Nolan M. Kavanagh, Noora Marcus, Risper Bosire, Brian Otieno, Elizabeth F. Bair, Kawango Agot, Harsha Thirumurthy

Financial incentives and real-time adherence monitoring to promote daily adherence to HIV treatment and viral suppression among people living with HIV: a pilot study

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
January 15, 2021
Bien-Gund CH, Ho JI, Bair EF, Marcus N, Choi RJ, Szep Z, Althoff A, Momplaisir FM, Thirumurthy H.