Research

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.

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

October 1, 2025

Aditi Vasan, Jordan I Wood, Xianqun Luan, Chén C Kenyon, Meredith Matone

Medicare Part D Coverage and Costs for Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists

September 24, 2025

Matthew J. Klebanoff, Pengxiang Li, Judith A. Long, Jalpa A. Doshi

Firearm Owners’ Preferences for Secure Storage Devices: Insights From Product Reviews

Journal of Surgical Research

August 18, 2025

Grayson Graham, Colby Wilson, Katelin Hoskins, M. Kit Delgado, Sunny Vespico Jackson, Athena Lee, Anish Agarwal, Elinore J. Kaufman

Effect of smartphone breathalyzer feedback on willingness to drive in moderately intoxicated individuals: A randomized trial

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

August 14, 2025

Jeffrey P Ebert, Henry R Kranzler, Ian J Barnett, Jessica E Hemmons, Ruiqi Yan, Evan Spencer, M Kit Delgado

Willful inattention: Keeping aversive information out of mind

Current Opinion in Psychology

Zachary Wojtowicz, Andras Molnar, Russell Golman, George Loewenstein

Opioid Cap Laws and Opioid Prescriptions After Total Joint Replacements in Older Adults

JAMA Network Open

Caroline P Thirukumaran, Derek T Schloemann, Jalpa A Doshi, Kevin A Fiscella, Benjamin F Ricciardi, Meredith B Rosenthal

A national megastudy shows that email nudges to elementary school teachers boost student math achievement, particularly when personalized

Angela L Duckworth, Ahra Ko, Katherine L Milkman, Joseph S Kay, Eugen Dimant, Dena M Gromet, Aden Halpern, Youngwoo Jung, Madeline K Paxson, Ramon A Silvera Zumaran, Ron Berman, Ilana Brody, Colin F Camerer, Elizabeth A Canning, Hengchen Dai, Marcos Gallo, Hal E Hershfield, Matthew D Hilchey, Ariel Kalil, Kathryn M Kroeper, Amy Lyon, Benjamin S Manning, Nina Mazar, Michelle Michelini, Susan E Mayer, Mary C Murphy, Philip Oreopoulos, Sharon E Parker, Renante Rondina, Dilip Soman, Christophe Van den Bulte

Unmasking Human Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Pia Ramchandani, Hamsa Bastani, Emily Wyatt

Awaiting insurance coverage: Medicaid enrollment and post-acute care use after traumatic injury

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Diane N Haddad, Justin S Hatchimonji, Ella C Eisinger, Angela T Chen, Kristen M Chreiman, Omar I Ramadan, Anna U Morgan, M Kit Delgado, Niels D Martin, Mark J Seamon, Lisa M Knowlton, Elinore J Kaufman

Reflecting on the Universal Meaning of Numbers in Health and Risk Communication

MDM Policy & Practice

February 24, 2025

Marilyn M. Schapira

Behavioral nudges prevent loan delinquencies at scale: A 13-million-person field experiment

January 23, 2025

Robert Kuan, Kristin Blagg, Benjamin L. Castleman, Rajeev Darolia, Jordan D. Matsudaira, Katherine L. Milkman, Lesley J. Turner

Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences

Perspectives on Psychological Science

January 1, 2025

Barbara A Mellers, Siyuan Yin

Does counting change what counts? Quantification fixation biases decision-making

November 12, 2024

Linda W Chang, Erika L Kirgios, Sendhil Mullainathan, Katherine L Milkman

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

Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Pediatrics

September 19, 2024

Rinad S Beidas, Kristin A Linn, Jennifer M Boggs, Steven C Marcus, Katelin Hoskins, Shari Jager-Hyman, Christina Johnson, Melissa Maye, LeeAnn Quintana, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Leslie Wright, Celeste Pappas, Arne Beck, Katy Bedjeti, Alison M Buttenheim, Matthew F Daley, Marisa Elias, Jason Lyons, Melissa Lynne Martin, Bridget McArdle, Debra P Ritzwoller, Dylan S Small, Nathaniel J Williams, Shiling Zhang, Brian K Ahmedani

Emergency Medicaid enrollment after traumatic injury predicts long-term health care utilization

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

September 3, 2024

Diane N Haddad, Ella Eisinger, Justin S Hatchimonji, Angela T Chen, Omar I Ramadan, Anna U Morgan, Deacon J Lile, M Kit Delgado, James Reese, Mark J Seamon, Niels D Martin, Patrick M Reilly, Lisa M Knowlton, Elinore J Kaufman