This fall’s Foltyn Seminar brought together a leading expert in behavioral economics and key figures of community programs in Delaware to better understand how individuals make decisions and how those ...

The authors describe several simple changes that health plans can make in the design of pay-for-performance programs that may improve their effectiveness. Objectives: To describe improvements in the ...

There is no shortage of apps and digital tools to help patients manage chronic conditions and remind them to take their medications. But the best-designed technology only works if patients actually ...

Suggested Citation: "7 Social Safety Net Benefits." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Behavioral Economics: Policy Impact and Future Directions. Washington, DC: The ...

President and CEO Harsh Trivedi says growing demand requires health systems to balance community care with a mission-driven financial model. Demand for behavioral health services has climbed steadily ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...

Over the last 10 years, Behavioral Economics (BE) has become increasingly popular (see Google Trends chart below). According to BE, people’s economic decisions are often less guided by stable ...

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...