Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Following the recent retraction of the American Health Care Act, two researchers propose four general principles ...

Editor’s note: This is one of several posts Health Affairs Blog will publish stemming from sessions at the June 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Minneapolis. Watch Health Affairs ...

Behavioral economics increasingly influences practice and policy, as I, a researcher and consultant on behavior change, witness on a daily basis. In fact, it proves a powerful way to help people into ...

As just about every entrepreneur, business leader, or even ordinary job seeker knows, the success often comes with very thin margins of error. Look back on that big ...

Suggested Citation: "11 Findings Across the Policy Domains." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Behavioral Economics: Policy Impact and ...

Behavioral economics studies how psychological tendencies influence economic decisions and outcomes. Concepts such as loss aversion and bounded rationality explain why people evaluate outcomes ...

Principles of behavioral economics are increasingly being applied in healthcare, especially as pay-for-value reimbursement models become more prominent. Behavioral economics could drive change where ...

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 ...

Imagine that a patient suffering from unusually profound amnesia has two toasters in his kitchen. The toaster on the right functions normally. The toaster on the left delivers an electric shock when ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Behavioral economics has had a growing influence on public policy over the past ...