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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.

Prevention of urinary stones with hydration: a randomised clinical trial of an adherence intervention

The Lancet
March 21, 2026
Alana C. Desai, Naim M. Maalouf, Jonathan D. Harper, Sri Sivalingam, John C. Lieske, H. Henry Lai, Peter P. Reese, Hunter Wessells, Hongqiu Yang, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Ziya Kirkali, Gregory E. Tasian, Charles D. Scales Jr.; Urinary Stone Disease Network Investigators

An Electronic Health Record–Based Tobacco Treatment System for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care

Pediatrics
March 17, 2026
Brian P. Jenssen, Abra M. Jeffers, Emara Nabi-Burza, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt Thayer, Bethany Hipple Walters, Douglas E. Levy, Robert W. Grundmeier, Olivier Drouin, Mark Vangel, Nancy A. Rigotti, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Alexander G. Fiks, Jonathan P. Winickoff

Economics of Translating Research Into Practice: The Case of Exercise to Prevent Cancer Recurrence

JCO Oncology Practice
March 16, 2026
Allan S Detsky, Kerry S Courneya, Christopher M Booth, Shivan J Mehta

Modeling the Make America Healthy Again’s Food Policy Strategy on Tobacco

JAMA Health Forum
March 13, 2026
Christina A. Roberto, Alyssa J. Moran, Emily Broad Leib

The effects of postmortem pictures in U.S. news coverage of school shootings: Emotional responses, perceived media bias, and gun control policy support

Political Psychology
March 13, 2026
Jessica Fishman, Melike M. Fourie, Melissa A. Murin-Minareci, Samantha L. Moore-Berg

The Ambulatory Specialty Model: The Next Step Toward Engaging Specialists In Accountable Care

Health Affairs
March 11, 2026
Joshua M. Liao, Amol S. Navathe

Adolescent and parent dyad perceptions on the utility and implementation ability to use cellphone-based technology to reduce distracted driving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Injury Prevention
March 11, 2026
Kevin Rix, Rachel Solomon, Mallory Lacy, M. Kit Delgado, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Douglas J. Wiebe, Catherine Claire McDonald

A pilot randomized clinical trial of gamification to increase medication adherence

American Heart Journal
March 7, 2026
Alexander C Fanaroff, Kayla Clark, Leslie Reid-Bey, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Laurie Norton, Kevin G Volpp

A Machine Learning Model to Improve Risk Adjustment Accuracy in Medicare

Health Services Research
March 5, 2026
Daniel K. Shenfeld, Lindsay Warrenburg, Eli Silvert, Matthew Guido, Maggie Makar, Karen Joynt Maddox, Amol S. Navathe, Ravi Bharat Parikh, Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Private Equity Acquisition and Buprenorphine Prescribing

JAMA Network
March 2, 2026
Taylor Holdaway, Susan H Busch, Jackson Reimer, Tamara Beetham, David A Fiellin, Marissa King

Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment

Appetite
March 2, 2026
Sophia V Hua, Christina A Roberto, Emily Yam, Eliza Leone, Laura A Gibson, Eric B Rimm

The Effects Of Labor Unions On Nurse Staffing Ratios And Quality Of Care In US Nursing Homes, 2013-21

Health Affairs
March 1, 2026
Adam Dean, Jamie McCallum, Atheendar S Venkataramani, Paula Chatterjee, Norma B Coe, David Michaels

Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients: a qualitative sub-study of a randomized clinical trial

Social Science & Medicine
March 1, 2026
Laura A Gibson, Aaron Richterman, Aaliyah Randall, Jonathan Muruako, Beth Uzwiak, Eva Fabian, Harsha Thirumurthy, Christina A Roberto

Major US Formulary Change Triggers, but Does Not Sustain, Increases in Biosimilar Adalimumab Prescribing

Arthritis Care & Research
March 1, 2026
Eric T Roberts, Gabriela Schmajuk, Mackenzie Clark, Diana Ung, Jinoos Yazdany

Linkage of Emergency Department Patients With Public Benefits Navigators via Text Messages: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Health Forum
February 26, 2026
Austin S Kilaru, Aliza Haider, Joseph Harrison, Erica L Dixon, Lauren Southwick, Melissa Berkowitz, Charles Rareshide, Conor Carroll, Clayton Kaledin, Grace McDermott, Michael Mehta, Alisa J Stephens Shields, Wendy De La Rosa, Anish K Agarwal, Raina M Merchant

Clinician nudge to gynecologic oncology referral at suspected ovarian cancer diagnosis: a pilot study

Cancer Control
February 19, 2026
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, Shivan J Mehta, Tessa Cook, Charlie Chambers, Shavon Rochester, Hanna Zafar, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth A Howell, Anne Marie McCarthy, Justin Bekelman