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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.

Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Health Behavior Change: A Narrative Review and Analysis

Annual Review of Public Health
December 23, 2025
Karen Glanz, Harsha Thirumurthy, and Natasha Agnes D'cruze

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

Behaviorally Designed Gamification and Physical Activity Among Breast and Prostate Cancer Survivors

JACC: CardioOncology
November 3, 2025
Alexander C Fanaroff, Jennifer A Orr, Chinyere Anucha, Emily Kim, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Meagan Echevarria, Stephanie Rodarte, Mareen Kassabian, Elina Balasian, Bonnie Ky, Kevin G Volpp, Saro H Armenian

Remote, Automated Gamification and Community-Based Physical Activity in Parkinson Disease

JAMA Neurology
November 3, 2025
Kimberly Waddell, Ryan Greysen, Mitesh Patel, Madison Smith, Abby Yuen Tsz Lau, Sharon Xie, Stephanie Wood, James Morley

Feasibility and Usability of a Post-Hospital Behavioral Intervention to Improve Mobility in Veterans

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
October 21, 2025
Jacqueline A Benson, Matthew Wilson, Aidan J Flynn, Julie Stutzbach, Kimberly J Waddell, Robert E Burke

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients With Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

AHA Journals
June 17, 2025
Louise B. Russell, Kevin G. M. Volpp, Mitesh S. Patel, Neel P. Chokshi, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Tamar Klaiman, Julia E. Szymczak, Dylan S. Small, Alexander C. Fanaroff

What motivates participants: a qualitative analysis of gamification and financial incentives to increase physical activity

BMC Public Health
May 16, 2025
Eric Ryu, David Farraday, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Samantha Coratti, Neel P. Chokshi, Jingsan Zhu, Julia E. Szymczak, Louise B. Russell, Laurie Norton, Dylan Small, Kevin G. Volpp & Tamar Klaiman

Gamification With a Support Partner and Postoperative Mobility in Older Adults Undergoing Radical Cystectomy: The MOVE UP Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open
January 13, 2025
Daniel Lee, Charles Rareshide, Angira Mondal, Mitesh S. Patel, S. Ryan Greysen

Perceptions, facilitators, and barriers of participation for a behavioral weight loss group-based telehealth program for breast cancer survivors: a qualitative study

Supportive Care in Cancer
November 20, 2024
Yangzi Liu, Elizabeth De Jesus, Macy Goldbach, Robert S Krouse, Carmen E Guerra, Katharine A Rendle, Tamara J Cadet, Kelly C Allison, Julia Tchou

A randomized controlled trial of gamification to increase physical activity among black and Hispanic breast and prostate cancer survivors: Rationale and design of the ALLSTAR clinical trial

American Heart Journal
November 4, 2024
Alexander C Fanaroff, Jennifer A Orr, Chinyere Anucha, Emily Kim, Charles Rareshide, Meagan Echevarria, Stephanie Rodarte, Mareen Kassabian, Elina Balasian, Bonnie Ky, Kevin G M Volpp, Saro Armenian

Effect of gamification with a support partner to increase physical activity in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease: The STEP 4Life randomized clinical trial

Alzheimer's Association
July 4, 2024
S. Ryan Greysen, Ai Leen Oon, Kristin Harkins, Charles Rareshide, Angira Mondal, Mitesh S. Patel, Joshua D. Grill, Jason Karlawish

Effect of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients at High Risk of Cardiovascular Events: The BE ACTIVE Randomized Controlled Trial

Circulation
April 7, 2024
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Mitesh S. Patel, Neel Chokshi, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Tamar Klaiman, Julia E. Szymczak, Louise B. Russell, Dylan S. Small and Kevin G.M. Volpp

Qualitative Study of Perceptions of Factors Contributing to Success or Failure Among Participants in a US Weight Loss Trial of Financial Incentives and Environmental Change Strategies

BMJ Open
March 29, 2024
Karen Glanz, Collin Kather, Annie Chung, Ji Rebekah Choi, Kevin G. Volpp, Justin Clapp

Outcome of BMI2+: Motivational Interviewing to Reduce BMI Through Primary Care AAP PROS Practices

Pediatrics
January 29, 2024
Ken Resnicow, Emerson Delacroix, Kendrin R. Sonneville, Shannon Considine, Robert W. Grundmeier, Di Shu, Jennifer A. Faerber, Alexander G. Fiks, Jennifer Steffes, Donna Harris, Heide Woo, Tim Proctor, Margaret E. Wright, Laura P. Shone, Sarah E. Barlow, Richard C. Wasserman, Robert Siegel, Melissa S. Stockwell

Quantifying and Correcting Bias Due to Outcome Dependent Self-Reported Weights in Longitudinal Study of Weight Loss Interventions

Scientific Reports
November 4, 2023
Jiayi Tong, Rui Duan, Ruowang Li, Chongliang Luo, Jason H. Moore, Jingsan Zhu, Gary D. Foster, Kevin G. Volpp, William S. Yancy, Pamela A. Shaw, Yong Chen