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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.

Electronic Health Record Integration of a Calculator for Cesarean Risk During Labor Induction

Learning Health Systems
October 12, 2026
Rebecca F. Hamm, M. Corinne Steele, Sameh Saleh, Mika Epps, E. Madeline Grenader, Lisa D. Levine, M. Kit Delgado

Surrogate Decision-Making for Older Adults With and Without Dementia

JAMA Network Open
October 7, 2026
Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Scott D. Halpern, Kenneth M. Langa, Mario Macis

Smoking Cessation Among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA
October 5, 2026
Joanna L. Hart, Anil Vachani, Christine M. Neslund-Dudas, Michael K. Gould, Matthew A. Facktor, Shira Blady, Brian A. Bayes, Dorothy Sheu, Vanessa L. Madden, Emma Britez Ferrante, Nirali Patel, Jenny Tian, Casey Whitman, Beth Creekmur, Rachel Kohn, Michael J. Simoff, Kevin G. Volpp, Dylan Small, Michael E. Scott, Amanda L. Holm, Alisa J. Stephens Shields, Scott D. Halpern

Service-Level Utilization in Risk-Based Contracts and a Benchmarking Approach for Fee-Schedule Reforms

JAMA Health Forum
October 2, 2026
Aaron L. Schwartz, Timothy Bulat, Eli Ben-Michael, Erkuan Wang, Jingsan Zhu, Emily Boudreau, Sumedha Chhatre, Soohyun Kim, David Pagnotti, Sara Riaz, Amanda Sutherland, Amol Navathe

Insurance and Cost-Related Access Barriers to Specialty Oral Anticancer Medications for Blood Cancers in a Nationwide Sample of Medicare and Commercially Insured Patients

Journal of Clinical Oncology
September 30, 2026
Jalpa A. Doshi, Pengxiang Li, Zhi Geng, Matthew J. Klebanoff, Amy R. Pettit, Katrina A. Armstrong, Scott F. Huntington, John K. Lin

When Effectiveness Isn’t Enough: Four Case Studies of Insurance Coverage for Behavioral Interventions Addressing Chronic Disease

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
September 28, 2026
Andrew Parambath, Kathleen Allen, Brian Levine, Kevin G. Volpp, Kristen Underhill

Dynamic attribute activation explains gaze biases in choice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
September 25, 2026
Xiaozhi Taro Yang, Sudeep Bhatia

Rural Emergency Hospitals: Promise, Peril, and a Path Forward

JAMA
September 23, 2026
George Vivek Koshy, Ari B. Friedman, Hao Yu, Anish K. Agarwal

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medication Adherence Among Medicare Advantage Enrollees With Diabetes

JAMA Network Open
September 21, 2026
Utibe R. Essien, Eric T. Roberts, Dominic A. Ruggiero, Jasmyn J. Tang, Sindhu Raghava, John Z. Ayanian, Renuka Tipirneni

Overlap Between Mandatory and Voluntary Value-Based Kidney Care Model Participation and Home Dialysis Use

JAMA Health Forum
September 11, 2026
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Yuvaram N. V. Reddy, Yueming Zhao, Yuhua Bao, Jingsan Zhu, Amol S. Navathe

Streamlining oversight in Medicare advantage: measuring coding intensity via contract rankings

Health Affairs Scholar
September 11, 2026
Chang T, Qiu M, Hu Z, Zapzalka D, Shanmugam DM, Shenfeld DK, Parikh RB, Makar M, Emanuel EJ, Brown Z, Kowalski AE, Wiens J.

Assessing Value of Behavioral Interventions: Designing Cost-Effectiveness Analyses for Food-Is-Medicine Interventions

Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes
September 9, 2026
Shelby D. Reed, Louise B. Russell, David D. Kim, Brandon K. Bellows, Kurt Hager, Davene R. Wright, Kevin G. Volpp

Physicians’ mental models regarding appropriate goals of care in chronic critical illness: a qualitative interview study

CHEST
September 8, 2026
Sarah K. Andersen, Yanran Yang, Erin K. Kross, Barbara Haas, Joanna Hart, Sean M. Bagshaw, Elizabeth Dzeng, Baruch Fischhoff, Douglas B. White

Cancer Surgery Outcomes After Implementation of a Global Budget Model in Rural Hospitals

Annals of Surgery
September 3, 2026
Jacob Whitman, Eric T. Roberts, Jonathan G. Yabes, Donald Bourne, Zhaojun Sun, Manisha Bhattacharya, Jeremy M. Kahn, Bruce L. Jacobs, Lindsay M. Sabik

Network analysis of risk factors for firearm assault

Journal of Behavioral Medicine
August 31, 2026
Dorothy R. Stearns, Patrick M. Carter, Philip Stallworth, M. Kit Delgado, Lauren K. Whiteside, Erin E. Bonar, Jason E. Goldstick

Protocol for the DECIDE+ trial: a quasi-experimental hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of social support and CVD self-management through community health workers in Philadelphia

BMJ Open
August 26, 2026
Stephen Bonett, Carmen Alvarez, Ashley Clemmons, Gladys Thomas, Antonia M. Villarruel, Andy S. L. Tan, Terri H. Lipman, Karen Glanz, José Bauermeister