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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.

“High-In” front-of-package labeling of foods high in added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat: A randomized experiment

Appetite
October 20, 2025
Brittany Lemmon, Aviva A Musicus, Anna H Grummon, Marissa G Hall, Christina A Roberto, Eva Greenthal, Jennifer Falbe

Now is the time to recognize and respond to addiction to ultra-processed foods

Nature Medicine
July 25, 2025
Erica M. LaFata, Alyssa J. Moran, Nora D. Volkow & Ashley N. Gearhardt

A Work-Based, Fully Remote, and Peer-Supported Exercise Snack Behavior Change Intervention (MOV’D): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

JMIR Publications
July 8, 2025
Ashley Monteiro, Jessie Moore, Angela Duckworth, Rocky Aikens, James J. Gross, Dan Schwartz, Mike Baiocchi, Judith J. Prochaska, Marily Oppezzo

Front-of-Package Labeling and Stigma

JAMA Network Open
June 20, 2025
Aviva A. Musicus, Alyssa J. Moran

A Systematic Review of “Food Is Medicine” Randomized Controlled Trials for Noncommunicable Disease in the United States: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

AHA Journals
June 18, 2025
Hilary K Seligman, Sonia Y Angell, Seth A Berkowitz, Mitchell S V Elkind, Kurt Hager, Nathalie Moise, Hannah Posner, Jen Muse, Angela Odoms-Young, Ronit Ridberg, Andrea B Troxel, Amy L Yaroch, Kevin G Volpp

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

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

Wash-in and washout effects: mitigating bias in short term dietary and other trials

BMJ
April 22, 2025
David S Ludwig, Walter C Willett, Mary E Putt

Using a human-centered design framework and behavioral economic interventions to increase fruit and vegetable purchases in an online grocery store: Study design and methodologies

Contemporary Clinical Trials
April 17, 2025
Sophia V Hua, Tamar Klaiman, Samantha Coratti, Jenna White, Aileen John, Mary E Putt, Erica Dixon, Hannah Posner, Kevin G Volpp

What Is ‘Food Is Medicine,’ Really? Policy Considerations On The Road To Health Care Coverage

Health Affairs
April 1, 2025
Colin M. Schwartz, Alexa M. Wohrman, Emily J. Holubowich, Lisa D. Sanders, and Kevin G. Volpp

A Natural Experiment to Evaluate Changes in Kids’ Meal Beverages in Fast-food Restaurants Following a Healthy Default Policy, 2019-2022

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietrics
March 27, 2025
Angie L Cradock, Jessica L Barrett, Jason P Block, Amy A Bolton, Carolyn Bresnahan, Lisa Harnack, Stephanie McCulloch, Christina A Roberto, Kristine Wiant, Alyssa Moran

Behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: intervention coding of studies in the TOPCHILD Collaboration systematic review

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
February 5, 2025
Brittany J. Johnson, Paul M. Chadwick, Samantha Pryde, Anna Lene Seidler, Kylie E. Hunter, Mason Aberoumand, Jonathan G. Williams, Hei In Lau, Sol Libesman, Jannik Aagerup, Angie Barba, Louise A. Baur, Samantha Morgillo, Lee Sanders, Sarah Taki, Kylie D. Hesketh, Karen Campbell, Alexandra Manson, Alison Hayes, Angela Webster, Charles Wood, Denise A. O’Connor, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Kristy Robledo, Lisa Askie, Luke Wolfenden, Rachael Taylor, H. Shonna Yin, Vicki Brown, Alexander Fiks, Alison Ventura, Ata Ghaderi, Barry J. Taylor, Cathleen Stough, Christine Helle, Cristina Palacios, Eliana M. Perrin, Elizabeth Reifsnider, Finn Rasmussen, Ian M. Paul, Jennifer S. Savage, Jessica Thomson, Jinan Banna, Junilla Larsen, Kaumudi Joshipura, Ken K. Ong, Levie Karssen, Li Ming Wen, Márcia Vitolo, Margrethe Røed, Maria Bryant, Maribel Campos Rivera, Mary Jo Messito, Natalia Golova, Nina Cecilie Øverby, Rachel Gross, Rajalakshmi Lakshman, Rebecca Byrne, Russell L. Rothman, Sharleen O’Reilly, Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Vera Verbestel, Claudio Maffeis, Kayla de la Haye, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Seema Mihrshahi, Janani Ramachandran, Paola Seffrin Baratto & Rebecca K. Golley on behalf of the TOPCHILD Collaboration

The Group-basEd Telehealth behavioral WEight Loss Program Among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Pilot and Feasibility Study

Obesity Science and Practice
December 21, 2024
Kelly C Allison, Courtney McCuen-Wurst, Allie Raevsky, Nathaniel Holmes, Macy Goldbach, Carmen E Guerra, Katharine A Rendle, Tamara J Cadet, Robert S Krouse, Julia Tchou

The Philadelphia Beverage Tax and Pediatric Weight Outcomes

JAMA Pediatrics
November 25, 2024
Emily F Gregory, Christina A Roberto, Nandita Mitra, Emma K Edmondson, Joshua Petimar, Jason P Block, Gary Hettinger, Laura A Gibson

Obesity Prevention at an Early Age: Progress, but a Long Way to Go

JAMA
November 21, 2024
Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

Caregiver Perspectives on Pediatric Primary Care Clinic-Based Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved
November 1, 2024
Aditi Vasan, DanaRose Negro, Mishaal Yazdani, Lindsay Benitez, Lindsay Benitez, Chén C Kenyon, Alexander G Fiks