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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.

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

A national randomized field experiment testing the impact of simulated usage-based insurance programs on driver safety

Accident Analysis & Prevention
December 1, 2025
Jeffrey P Ebert, Catherine C McDonald, Ruiying A Xiong, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Neda Khan, Maya Irving, Athena Lee, Arjun Patel, Sadie Friday, Brian Tefft, William J Horrey, Subhash Aryal, Michael O Harhay, M Kit Delgado

Peer and Patient Feedback to Increase Adherence to Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

JAMA Surgery
June 11, 2025
Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH, MS; Jeffrey P. Ebert, PhD; Ruiying Xiong, MS; Zarina S. Ali, MD, MS; Daniel Lee, MD; Frances Shofer, PhD; Yevgeniy Gitelman, MD; David Do, MD; Evan A. Spencer, MS; E. Madeline Grenader, BS; Fan Li, PhD; Michael O. Harhay, PhD, MPH; M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

Change in Default Prescription Length and Statin Prescribing Behavior

JAMA Internal Medicine
April 7, 2025
Mili Mehta, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Corinne M. Rhodes, Aria Xiong, Christopher K. Snider, E. Madeline Grenader, Michael O. Harhay, Nune Mehrabyan, Maryanne K. Peifer, Kevin G. M. Volpp, M. Kit Delgado

Nudging Clinicians to Promote Serious Illness Communication for Critically Ill Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Internal Medicine
March 17, 2025
Katherine R Courtright, Jaspal Singh, Erich M Dress, Brian Bayes, Michael O Harhay, Marzana Chowdhury, Yingying Lu, Kenneth M Lee, Dylan S Small, Casey Whitman, Jenny Tian, Vanessa Madden, Timothy Hetherington, Lindsay Placket, D Matthew Sullivan, Henry L Burke, Michael B Green, Scott D Halpern

Measuring Quality-Weighted Hospital-Free-Days in Acute Respiratory Failure: A Modified Delphi Study

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
March 20, 2024
Catherine L. Auriemma, Maayra I. Butt, Melanie Bahti, Jasmine A. Silvestri, Ellen Solomon, Michael O. Harhay, Tamar Klaiman, Marilyn M. Schapira, Frances K. Barg, Scott D. Halpern

The Impact of Health Care Algorithms on Racial and Ethnic Disparities : A Systematic Review

Annals of Internal Medicine
March 12, 2024
Shazia Mehmood Siddique, Kelley Tipton, Brian Leas, Christopher Jepson, Jaya Aysola, Jordana B Cohen, Emilia Flores, Michael O. Harhay, Harald Schmidt, Gary E. Weissman, Julie Fricke, Jonathan R. Treadwell, Nikhil K Mull

Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Network
January 16, 2024
Katherine R. Courtright, Vanessa Madden, Brian Bayes, Marzana Chowdhury, Casey Whitman, Dylan S. Small, Michael O. Harhay, Suzanne Parra, Elizabeth Cooney-Zingman, Mary Ersek, Gabriel J. Escobar, Sarah H. Hill, Scott D. Halpern