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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.

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

JAMA Network Open
April 9, 2025
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

PNAS
March 24, 2025
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
March 18, 2025
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
March 1, 2025
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

PNAS
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

PNAS
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

Can nudges be leveraged to enhance diversity in organizations? A systematic review

Current Opinion in Psychology
August 30, 2024
Jose A. Cervantez, Katherine L. Milkman

Formulary Coverage of Brand-Name Adalimumab and Biosimilars Across Medicare Part D Plans

JAMA Network
June 6, 2024
Matthew J Klebanoff, Pengxiang Li, John K Lin, Jalpa A Doshi

Validation of a smartphone telematics algorithm for classifying driver trips

Science Direct
May 17, 2024
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying A. Xiong, Arjun Patel, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Catherine C. McDonald, M. Kit Delgado

How Can a Behavioral Economics Lens Contribute to Implementation Science?

Implementation Science
April 26, 2024
Nathan Hodson, Byron J. Powell, Per Nilsen, Rinad S. Beidas

Association Between the SaFETy Score and Self-reported Firearm Violence Among Young Adults Presenting to Emergency Departments in Three Cities: A Cross-Sectional Study

Annals of Internal Medicine
April 23, 2024
Jason E Goldstick, Patrick M Carter, Lauren Whiteside, M Kit Delgado, Rebecca M Cunningham