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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.

Women’s screening preferences shift after being informed about the 2024 USPSTF breast cancer screening guideline

Patient Education and Counseling
July 1, 2026
Tamar Parmet, Grant Yoder, Kirsten McCaffery, Jolyn Hersch, Marilyn M. Schapira, Carmen L. Lewis, Joseph N. Cappella, Channing Tate, Brad Morse, Laura D. Scherer

Erratum to “Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment” [Appetite 221 (2026) 108494]

Appetite
July 1, 2026
Sophia V. Hua; Christina A. Roberto; Emily Yam; Eliza Leone; Laura A. Gibson; Eric B. Rimm

Text-Message Outreach to Connect Adolescents and Young Adults to Nicotine Treatment: A Pilot Study in Pediatric Primary Care

Academic Pediatrics
July 1, 2026
Eleanor Lustig, Gabrielle DiFiore, Maura Powell, Frank T. Leone, Robert Schnoll, Brian P. Jenssen

Large Language Model Chatbot Conversations vs Public Health Materials and Parental HPV Vaccination Intentions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network
June 8, 2026
Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sunny Rai, Manuel Tonneau, Anish K. Agarwal, Joseph Cappella, Melanie L. Kornides, Lyle Ungar, Alison M. Buttenheim, Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Factors associated with discharge to skilled nursing despite a clinical recommendation for inpatient rehabilitation

Journal of Stroke & Cardiovascular Diseases
June 1, 2026
Kiersten M. McCartney; Ruiqi Yan; Lin Xu; Rujula Upasani; Stephen Hampton; Robert E. Burke; M. Kit Delgado; Kimberly J. Waddell

Rx Kids: designing cash transfers as health policy

The Lancet Public Health
June 1, 2026
Aaron Richterman, Harsha Thirumurthy

Effects of added-sugar warning labels on restaurant menus in the USA: an online randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Public Health
June 1, 2026
Yuru Huang, Brittany Lemmon, Aviva A. Musicus, Christina A. Roberto, Marissa G. Hall, Jennifer Falbe

Factors associated with discharge to skilled nursing despite a clinical recommendation for inpatient rehabilitation

Journal of Stroke & Cardiovascular Diseases
June 1, 2026
Kiersten M. McCartney, Ruiqi Yan, Lin Xu, Rujula Upasani, Stephen Hampton, Robert E. Burke, M. Kit Delgado, Kimberly J. Waddell

Patient-reported Opioid use and Pain Management After Living Kidney Donation

Transplantation Direct
June 1, 2026
Amanda Leonberg-Yoo, Kristin E. Leonberg, Samir Abu Gazala, Sarah Hryzak, Robert R. Redfield III, Ronald F. Parsons, Anish K. Agarwal, M. Kit Delgado, Daniel Lee, Jennifer Trofe

Improving access to essential medicines via decision-aware machine learning

Nature
May 29, 2026
Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung; Jatu Abdulai; Patrick Bayoh; Lawrence Sandi; Francis Smart; Hamsa Bastani; Osbert Bastani

Identifying Meaningful Patient Savings on Generics: Direct-to-Consumer Prices Versus Commercial Insurance Cost Sharing

Annals of Internal Medicine
May 26, 2026
John K. Lin, Jenny J. Xiang, Xiudong Lei, Sunita Desai, Erin Trish, Fumiko Chino, Meng Li, Sharon H. Giordano, Ying Xu, Changchuan Jiang, Jalpa A. Doshi, Ya-Chen Tina Shih

A megastudy of behavioral interventions to promote frequent HIV testing among adults at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya and Uganda: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials
May 21, 2026
Kara Marson, Jane Kabami, Alison M. Buttenheim, Daniel Bennett, Maya L. Petersen, Diane V. Havlir, Moses R. Kamya, James Ayieko, Harsha Thirumurthy, Gabriel Chamie

Pediatric healthcare worker perspectives on implementation of a secure firearm storage program: a qualitative study

BMC Pediatrics
May 20, 2026
Claire R. Waller, Mallika Pandey, Jennifer M. Boggs, Arne Beck, Ruth P. Bedoy, Alison M. Buttenheim, Marisa E. Elias, Katelin Hoskins, Shari Jager-Hyman, Christina Johnson, Melissa Maye, Bridget McArdle, Celeste Pappas, Dylan S. Small, LeeAnn M. Quintana, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Leslie A. Wright, Nathaniel J. Williams, Brian K. Ahmedani, Rinad S. Beidas

An Emergency Department Nudge-Based Strategy to Screen and Treat Patients With Alcohol Misuse

Annals of Emergency Medicine
May 14, 2026
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Samantha Huo, Jeanmarie Perrone, Jeffrey Moon, Nikhil K. Mull, Emilia J. Flores, Laurel Adams, Arielle Berk, Hannah Dart, Nicole O'Donnell, Ruiying A. Xiong, Lin Xu, Christopher Snider, Zhe Chen, Mika Epps, M. Kit Delgado

Motivating Patients to Engage in Evidence-Based Strategies to Prevent Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
May 8, 2026
Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Shelley Stoll, Eli W. Carter, Harita S. Vadari, Kenneth Resnicow, William H. Herman, H. Myra Kim, Laura N. McEwen, Kevin G. Volpp, Michele Heisler

Nudging implementation of low tidal volume ventilation: a stepped wedge, cluster randomized trial

Implementation Science
May 7, 2026
Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Michael O. Harhay, Fan Li, Dylan S. Small, Yingying Lu, Wei Wang, Barry D. Fuchs, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Teresa Tran, Aerielle Belk, Jasmine A. Silvestri, Tamar Klaiman, Stefania Scott, Elizabeth Levy, Michael W. Sjoding, Rachel Kohn, Karsten J. Roberts, Rinad S. Beidas & Scott D. Halpern