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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.

An Electronic Health Record–Based Tobacco Treatment System for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care

Pediatrics
March 17, 2026
Brian P. Jenssen, Abra M. Jeffers, Emara Nabi-Burza, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt Thayer, Bethany Hipple Walters, Douglas E. Levy, Robert W. Grundmeier, Olivier Drouin, Mark Vangel, Nancy A. Rigotti, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Alexander G. Fiks, Jonathan P. Winickoff

Adolescent and parent dyad perceptions on the utility and implementation ability to use cellphone-based technology to reduce distracted driving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Injury Prevention
March 11, 2026
Kevin Rix, Rachel Solomon, Mallory Lacy, M. Kit Delgado, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Douglas J. Wiebe, Catherine Claire McDonald

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

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

Using big data to uncover the causes of dementia

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

Effect of Gamification Plus Automated Coaching to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: The GAMEPAD Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of the American Heart Association
December 3, 2025
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Michael G. Levin, Scott M. Damrauer, Jay S. Giri, Neel P. Chokshi, Benjamin M. Jackson, and Mitesh S. Patel

A contemporary examination of the effect of driver training for reducing crash risk in novice adolescent drivers: protocol for the DRIVER study, a random assignment trial

Injury Epidemiology
December 1, 2025
Elizabeth A Walshe, Daniel Romer, Michael R Elliott, Keith S Baxelbaum, M Kit Delgado, Jeffrey P Ebert, Flaura K Winston

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

Use of Large Language Models to Determine the Surveillance Colonoscopy Interval: A Bi-institutional Validation Study

The American Journal of Gastroenterology
November 24, 2025
Vedant Acharya, Shivan J Mehta, Daniel A Sussman, Vignesh Kumaresan, Jonathan England, Tessa S Cook, S Barry Issenberg, Amar R Deshpande

Pragmatic Interventions to Boost Surveillance Mammogram Uptake Among an Overdue Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Internal Medicine
November 10, 2025
Soo-Chin Lee, Sasidharan Swarnalatha Lucky, Junxian Zhu, Samuel Ow, Lukas Loh, Jun Hui Tan, Siew Eng Lim, Zarinah Hairom, Shivan Mehta, Bee-Choo Tai, Boon-Cher Goh

Combining International Standards to Develop Clinical Decision Support for Parent Smoking Cessation in Pediatrics

Journal of Medical Internet Research
November 5, 2025
Jeritt G Thayer, Brian P Jenssen, Alexander G Fiks, Dean Karavite, Janani Ramachandran, Shannon Kelleher, Ekaterina Nekrasova, Jeremy E Drehmer, Emara Nabi-Burza, Jonathan P Winickoff, Robert W Grundmeier

Text Messaging and Video Stories to Support Hypertension Self-Management in Black Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open
November 5, 2025
Sarah L Cutrona, Sarah E McDannold, Kathryn L DeLaughter, Gemmae M Fix, Stephanie L Shimada, Barbara G Bokhour, Howard S Gordon, Charlene Pope, Bridget M Smith, Ndindam Ndiwane, Jessica Gardner, Diana C DeFelice, Ece S Bal, Judith A Long

Behavioral Interventions Improve Mailed Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Overdue Patients in a Randomized Trial

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
September 20, 2025
Shivan J Mehta, Pranay Nadella, Pamela A Shaw, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin Brophy, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Christopher K Snider, MaryAnne K Peifer, Corinne Rhodes, David A Asch

Effective Implementation of Population Health Outreach to Increase Breast Cancer Screening

Journal of General Internal Medicine
September 15, 2025
Maxim Yaskolko, Catherine Reitz, Christopher K. Snider, Stephanie Subbio, Caitlin Brophy, Shivan J. Mehta & Corinne Rhodes

Behavioral Economic Framing for Enrollment and Retention of Patients in Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring

JAMA Network
September 2, 2025
Shivan J. Mehta, Joseph Teel, Evelyn Okorie, Catherine Reitz, Alison Purcell, Christopher K. Snider, Kayla Clark, Rebecca C. Kersting, Karen Glanz, Mary Putt, Charles Rareshide, Kevin G. Volpp