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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.

The effects of government-led cash transfer programmes on behavioural and health determinants of mortality: a difference-in-differences study

The Lancet
November 10, 2025
Aaron Richterman, MD; Tra-My Ngoc Bùi, BA; Elizabeth F Bair, MS; Gregory Jerome, MD; Christophe Millien, MD; Jean Christophe Dimitri Suffrin, MMSc; Prof Jere R Behrman, PhD; Prof Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD

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

“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

Twitter reveals spatio-temporal variation in vaccine concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa

Preprint
October 20, 2025
Devansh Jain, Sunny Rai, Juhi Mittal, Anietie Andy, Alison M. Buttenheim, Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Use of organizational change strategies and personalized agency feedback improves addressing tobacco in behavioral health outpatient treatment settings

Frontiers in Health Services
October 6, 2025
Douglas Ziedonis, Robert A Schnoll, Orrin Myers, Thomas Anthony Chavez, Amy Bachyrycz, Cesar J Ojeda, Frank T Leone, Mackenzie Hosie Quinn, Prajakta Adsul

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

Health Affairs
October 1, 2025
Aditi Vasan, Jordan I. Wood, Xianqun Luan, Chén C. Kenyon, and Meredith Matone

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

JAMA
September 24, 2025
Matthew J. Klebanoff, Pengxiang Li, Judith A. Long, Jalpa A. Doshi

Unfairness toward rural beneficiaries in Medicare’s hierarchical conditions categories score

Health Affairs Scholar
September 23, 2025
Ravi B Parikh, Kristin A Linn, Junning Liang, Sae-Hwan Park, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S Cousins, Caleb Hearn, Matthew Maciejewski, Amol S Navathe

Behavioral Interventions Improve Mailed Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Overdue Patients in a Randomized Trial

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
September 20, 2025
Shivan J Mehta, Pranay Nadella, Pamela A Shaw, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin Brophy, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Christopher K Snider, MaryAnne K Peifer, Corinne Rhodes, David A Asch

Increasing Dental Varnish Rates in a Large Pediatric Care Network: A Quality Improvement Effort

Pediatrics
September 18, 2025
Brian P Jenssen, Gabrielle DiFiore, Tyler Doherty, Steve Callum, Stephanie Gilbert, Elena Huang, Lisa Biggs, Gregory Lawton

Reducing the Out-of-Pocket Costs of Disease-Modifying Therapies for Medicare Beneficiaries With Multiple Sclerosis

Neurology Clinical Practice
September 16, 2025
Pengxiang Li, John K Lin, Matthew J Klebanoff, Riya Palkar, Salim Chahin, Jalpa A Doshi

Effective Implementation of Population Health Outreach to Increase Breast Cancer Screening

Journal of General Internal Medicine
September 15, 2025
Maxim Yaskolko, Catherine Reitz, Christopher K. Snider, Stephanie Subbio, Caitlin Brophy, Shivan J. Mehta & Corinne Rhodes

“I wish someone else could notify the partner”: Barriers to STI partner notification identified and experienced by young women and health care workers in Cape Town, South Africa

Frontiers
September 8, 2025
Fiona Bennin; Siyaxolisa Sindelo; Nomsa B. Mahlalela; Alison Buttenheim; Teniola Egbe; Prisca Vundhla; Pamela Fuzile; Mbali Jonas; Preethi Mistri; Brendan Maughan-Brown; Elzette Rousseau

Behavioral Economic Framing for Enrollment and Retention of Patients in Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring

JAMA Network
September 2, 2025
Shivan J. Mehta, Joseph Teel, Evelyn Okorie, Catherine Reitz, Alison Purcell, Christopher K. Snider, Kayla Clark, Rebecca C. Kersting, Karen Glanz, Mary Putt, Charles Rareshide, Kevin G. Volpp

Different vaccination debunking interventions: a randomized, controlled experiment estimating “backfiring” and positive effects

Vaccine
August 30, 2025
Jennifer C. Morgan, Melanie L. Kornides, Jeremy Lee, Jessica Fishman

Automated Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network
August 27, 2025
Emara Nabi-Burza, Brian P. Jenssen, Abra M. Jeffers, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt G. Thayer, Bethany Hipple, Douglas E. Levy, Robert W. Grundmeier, Olivier Drouin, Mark Vangel, Nancy A. Rigotti, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Ekaterina Nekrasova, Madeline McKnight, Jonathan P. Winickoff, Alexander G. Fiks