The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Byadmin November 7, 2011

See some coverage in Forbes on a debate I participated in at a recent meeting, discussing when decisions are really decisions and when nudges are really shoves.
Click here.

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

The Hidden Psychology of Antibiotic Prescribing
Byadmin March 30, 2015

Experts in decision psychology and behavioral economics have conclusively shown that humans, those silly creatures, are not always rational decision makers. They let unconscious forces influence their thinking, and not always for the better. But of course, doctors aren’t human. Right? Well, here is some evidence of just how human we doctors are. The odds…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Do Cigarette Taxes Work?
Byadmin August 22, 2013

Here is a nice picture, from the Wonkblog, summarizing the best evidence to date on whether cigarette taxes reduce smoking. The bottom line here is that cigarette taxes slightly reduce smoking among smokers. That slight reduction reflects, in part, those people who quit smoking because it has simply become too expensive. It also includes people…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Brain Control and Consumer Behavior
Byadmin January 3, 2013

I teach a course on consumer irrationality and market failure at the Fuqua School of Business. I open up one of my lectures with a brief video demonstration of what psychologists call “the McGurk effect.” (See an example here.) In the video, a man makes the sound “ba ba ba.” About half of my students invariably identify…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Tiger Woods and Health Care Reform
Byadmin June 23, 2009

American presidents have been trying to reform our health care system since at least the Nixon era, but with only limited success. Past reform efforts have failed for many reasons. For starters, the U.S. health care system is complex, with the medical industry making up almost 1/6 of our economy. But perhaps the biggest obstacle…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

When It Comes to Cancer Screening, Are We All Nuts?
Byadmin February 17, 2015

In a recent Health Affairs article, David Asch and I wrote about how hard it can be to stop screening aggressively for things like breast and prostate cancer even when the evidence suggests we are doing more harm than good. Well, journalist Steven Petrow has a nice piece in the Washington Post looking at the…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

Sounding off on Sound Medicine
Byadmin May 11, 2011

I had a chance to talk to the host of the public radio show, Sound Medicine. You might want to listen to the broadcast. Then again, you might want to enjoy the spring weather (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere). Your choice!

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The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

The Hidden Psychology of Antibiotic Prescribing

Do Cigarette Taxes Work?

Brain Control and Consumer Behavior

Tiger Woods and Health Care Reform

When It Comes to Cancer Screening, Are We All Nuts?

Sounding off on Sound Medicine

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