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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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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.

“Do not inject our babies”: a social listening analysis of public opinion about authorizing pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

Health Affairs Scholar
July 8, 2024
Aleksandra M Golos, Sharath-Chandra Guntuku, Alison M Buttenheim

Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not

Nature
June 26, 2024
Katherine L. Milkman, Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet, Youngwoo Jung, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Silvera Zumaran, Robert Kuan, Ron Berman, Neil A. Lewis Jr, John A. List, Mitesh S. Patel, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathon K. Bellows, Cheryl A. Marandola & Angela L. Duckworth

Psychosocial correlates of parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children against COVID-19

PLOS One
June 24, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, Stephen Bonett, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Andrew Kim, Melanie L. Kornides, John B. Jemmott, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel, José A. Bauermeister

Engaging Trusted Messengers to Increase COVID-19 Pediatric Vaccine Uptake in Philadelphia: Lessons from the VaxUpPhillyFamilies program

Science Direct
June 8, 2024
Sarah Badlis, Haolong Yu, Heather Klusaritz, Andy S L Tan, Teresa Dooley, Helaine Heggs, Sophia Collins, Gabriela Raczka, Naomi DeRoche-Brown, Rachel Feuerstein-Simon, José A Bauermeister, Antonia M Villarruel, Stephen Bonett, Karen Glanz, Terri Lipman

Trust in Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Oversight and Parents’ Willingness To Vaccinate Their Children Against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

BMC Public Health
March 16, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, José A. Bauermeister, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Terri H. Lipman, Andy S. L. Tan, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel & Stephen Bonett

Mobile Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines Improved Uptake in Rural Sierra Leone

Nature
March 13, 2024
Alison Buttenheim & Harsha Thirumurthy

Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Completion by 13: A Quality Improvement Initiative in a Large Primary Care Network

Academic Pediatrics
March 1, 2024
Elena Huang, Kathleen Filograna, Katie K. Lockwood, Jonathan Crossette, Brian P. Jenssen

What Health Systems Can Do Now to Improve Human Papillomavirus Vaccination

JAMA Pediatrics
November 20, 2023
Mary Kate Kelly, Rachel A. Katzenellenbogen, Alexander G. Fiks

Clinician Prompts for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Academic Pediatrics
November 1, 2023
Cynthia M. Rand, Alisa J. Stephens-Shields, Mary K. Kelly, Russell Localio, Chloe Hannan, Robert W. Grundmeier, Laura P. Shone, Jennifer Steffes, Kristin Davis, Christina Albertin, Sharon G. Humiston, Greta McFarland, Dianna E. Abney, Peter G. Szilagyi, Alexander G. Fiks

Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Completion by 13: A Quality Improvement Initiative in a Large Primary Care Network

Academic Pediatrics
October 29, 2023
Elena Huang, Kathleen Filograna, Katie K. Lockwood, Jonathan Crossette, Brian P. Jenssen

Kindergarten Vaccination Status in California After Changes to Medical Exemption Policy

JAMA Network Open
October 9, 2023
Paul L. Delamater, PhD; Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA; Daniel A. Salmon, PhD; Jason L. Schwartz, PhD; Saad B. Omer, MBBS, PhD

Kindergarten Vaccination Status in California After Changes to Medical Exemption Policy

JAMA
October 2, 2023
Paul L. Delamater, Alison M. Buttenheim, Daniel A. Salmon, Jason L. Schwartz, Saad B. Omer

Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Opinions About Mandates Among Four Groups of Adults in South Africa With Distinct Vaccine Intentions: Evidence From a Large National Survey

BMC Public Health
September 11, 2023
Katherine Eyal, Lindokuhle Njozela, Timothy Köhler, Kim Ingle, Timothy Brophy, Alison Buttenheim, Brendan Maughan-Brown

Effects Of An Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate At A Long-Term Care Network

Health Affairs
August 7, 2023
Aleksandra M. Golos, Alison M. Buttenheim, Ashley Z. Ritter, Elizabeth F. Bair, Gretchen B. Chapman

Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Adults in South Africa: Multimethod Evidence From a Population-Based Longitudinal Study

BMJ Global Health
August 4, 2023
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Katherine Claire Eyal, Lindokuhle Njozela, Alison M. Buttenheim

Examination of Text Message Plans and Baseline Usage of Families Enrolled in a Text Message Influenza Vaccine Reminder Trial: Survey Study

JMIR Formative Research
June 30, 2023
Chelsea S. Wynn, Alexander G. Fiks, Russell Localio, Justine Shults, Ekaterina Nekrasova, Laura P. Shone, Alessandra Torres, Miranda Griffith, Rebecca Unger, Leigh Ann Ware, Mary Kate Kelly, Melissa S. Stockwell