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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.

Money, Medicine, and Motherhood: Developing a Cash Transfer for Pregnant Women with HIV in Rural Haiti

AIDS and Behavior
November 6, 2025
Aaron Richterman, Sindy Desire, Wendel Blaise, Elyse Derose, Alexis Moise, Lisa P Ward, Christophe Millien, Harsha Thirumurthy, Florence Momplaisir, Louise C Ivers

Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments During Pregnancy Were Associated With Decreased Odds Of Adverse Birth Outcomes

Health Affairs
October 1, 2025
Aditi Vasan, Jordan I. Wood, Xianqun Luan, Chén C. Kenyon, and Meredith Matone

Unfairness toward rural beneficiaries in Medicare’s hierarchical conditions categories score

Health Affairs Scholar
September 23, 2025
Ravi B Parikh, Kristin A Linn, Junning Liang, Sae-Hwan Park, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S Cousins, Caleb Hearn, Matthew Maciejewski, Amol S Navathe

Increasing Dental Varnish Rates in a Large Pediatric Care Network: A Quality Improvement Effort

Pediatrics
September 18, 2025
Brian P Jenssen, Gabrielle DiFiore, Tyler Doherty, Steve Callum, Stephanie Gilbert, Elena Huang, Lisa Biggs, Gregory Lawton

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Along the Treatment Cascade Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Metastatic Breast, Colorectal, Lung, and Prostate Cancers

Journal of Clinical Oncology
August 27, 2025
John K Lin, Jiangong Niu, Sharon H Giordano, Pengxiang Li, Rebecca A Snyder, Kaiping Liao, Meng Li, Ana Aparicio, William Chapin, Jianjun Zhang, Jenny Xiang, Nirosha Perera, Debanjan Pain, Carmen E Guerra, Jalpa A Doshi

Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health

The New England Journal of Medicine
July 26, 2025
Atheendar S Venkataramani, Pritpal S Tamber, Anthony Iton

Early SNAP Emergency Allotment Withdrawal and Household Food Insufficiency

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
June 11, 2025
C. Ross Hatton, Erin R. Hager, Alyssa J. Moran, Jason P. Block, Joshua Petimar

Access to Surgical Care After Newly Acquired Insurance Enrollment

Annals of Surgery
June 9, 2025
Angela T. Chen, Diane Haddad, Ella Eisinger, Mucio Kit Delgado, Joseph A. Kern, Lisa M. Knowlton, Deacon Lile, Anna U. Morgan, Omar I. Ramadan, Lin Xu, Elinore J. Kaufman

Incidence of food allergic reactions among adolescents engaged in food allergy management

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
June 1, 2025
Roxanne Dupuis, Jonathan M. Spergel, Terri F. Brown-Whitehorn, Andrea B. Troxel, Erica L. Kenney, Jason P. Block, Rachel Feuerstein-Simon, Xochitl Luna Marti, Cynthia J. Mollen, Zachary F. Meisel, Kevin G. Volpp, Steven L. Gortmaker, Carolyn C. Cannuscio

Association of Stratified Benchmarks With Financial Penalties in the ESRD Treatment Choices Model

JAMA
May 7, 2025
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Yuvaram N V Reddy, Yueming Zhao, Nuo Chen, Seojeong Hong, Yuntian Shi, Zhimeng Yan, Amol S Navathe

The role of dignity in food assistance: Participant experiences with a free meal kit program

Social Science & Medicine
April 26, 2025
Joslyn Brenton, Alyssa Tindall, Karen Glanz, Senbagam Virudachalam

Reducing Medicare Part D Out-of-Pocket Costs for Specialty Oral Anticancer Drugs Under the Inflation Reduction Act: Highlighting the Benefits of Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan

JCO Oncology Practice
April 25, 2025
Jalpa A Doshi, Pengxiang Li, Shravan Asthana, John K Lin

A series of randomized trials of behavioral economic interventions to increase racial and ethnic diversity of research participants:Rationale and design of ITERATE

American Heart Journal
March 29, 2025
Nirali Patel, Casey Whitman, Adina Lieberman, Shira Blady, Colleen Morse, Nawar Naseer, Joellen Weaver, Modele O Ogunniyi, Rachel Kohn, Kevin G Volpp, Scott D Halpern, Alanna A Morris, Alisa Stephens-Shields, Alexander C Fanaroff

Physician clinical decision modification and bias assessment in a randomized controlled trial of AI assistance

Nature
March 4, 2025
Ethan Goh, Bryan Bunning, Elaine C. Khoong, Robert J. Gallo, Arnold Milstein, Damon Centola, and Jonathan H. Chen

Jitegemee (rely on yourself): a cross-sectional study on acceptability, feasibility and design considerations for a personal savings intervention to reduce HIV risk among female sex workers in Siaya County, Kenya

BMJ Open
February 16, 2025
Kawango Agot, Nicky Okeyo, Jacob Onyango, Marylyn Ochillo, Gift-Noelle Wango, Moraa Arasa, Timothy Okello, Olivia Okumu, Shantana Carol, Bernard Ayieko, Harsha Thirumurthy

Rideshare services for transportation assistance in gynecologic oncology: a quality improvement study

BMC Health Services Research
February 14, 2025
Anna Jo Smith, Sam Pancoe, Mary Pat Lynch, Megan Wachlin, Kristina Powell, Stefanie N. Hinkle, Nathanael C. Koelper, Meredith Doherty, Justin E. Bekelman, Fiona Simpkins & Emily M. Ko