Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2011

Edited by J. P. Newhouse, A. J. Culyer, R. Frank, K. Claxton and T. McGuire

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2011

Opportunities and benefits as determinants of the direction of scientific research pp. 603-615

Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen

Inequality and polarisation in health systems' responsiveness: A cross-country analysis pp. 616-625

Andrew Michael Jones, Nigel Rice, Silvana Robone and Pedro Rosa Dias

Time is money: Outpatient waiting times and health insurance choices of elderly veterans in the United States pp. 626-636

Steven D. Pizer and Julia C. Prentice

How payment systems affect physicians' provision behaviour--An experimental investigation pp. 637-646

Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Reinhard Selten and Daniel Wiesen

Genetic lotteries within families pp. 647-659

Jason Fletcher and Steven Lehrer

Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors pp. 660-674

Hugh Gravelle, Arne Risa Hole and Rita Santos

Medicare prospective payment and the volume and intensity of skilled nursing facility services pp. 675-684

David C. Grabowski, Christopher C. Afendulis and Thomas G. McGuire

Measuring socioeconomic inequality in health, health care and health financing by means of rank-dependent indices: A recipe for good practice pp. 685-694

Guido Erreygers and Tom Van Ourti

The impact of comparative effectiveness research on health and health care spending pp. 695-706

Anirban Basu, Anupam B. Jena and Tomas J. Philipson

Analysis of the distributional impact of out-of-pocket health payments: Evidence from a public health insurance program for the poor in Mexico pp. 707-718

Rocio Garcia-Diaz and Sandra G. Sosa-Rub

Income and the utilization of long-term care services: Evidence from the Social Security benefit notch pp. 719-729

Gopi Shah Goda, Ezra Golberstein and David C. Grabowski

A cost-benefit analysis of cataract surgery based on the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing pp. 730-739

Martin Weale

The impact of minimum legal drinking age laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design using exact date of birth pp. 740-752

Barış K. Yörük and Ceren Ertan Yoruk

The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour: Evidence from a natural experiment in England pp. 753-763

Nils Braakmann

Recessions are bad for workplace safety pp. 764-773

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

Conjugal bereavement effects on health and mortality at advanced ages pp. 774-794

Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

Optimal public provision of nursing homes and the role of information pp. 795-810

Michael Kuhn and Robert Nuscheler

Schooling and smoking among the baby boomers - An evaluation of the impact of educational expansion in France pp. 811-831

Fabrice Etilé and Andrew Michael Jones

Where would you go for your next hospitalization? pp. 832-841

Kyoungrae Jung, Roger Feldman and Dennis Scanlon

Erratum "Changing mix of medical care services: Stylized facts and implications for price indexes" [J. Health Econ. 30 (2011) 568-574] pp. 842-842

Ana Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak

Volume 30, issue 3, 2011

Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine pp. 479-488

Sven Neelsen and Thomas Stratmann

Healthy school meals and educational outcomes pp. 489-504

Michèle Belot and Jonathan James

Long-term employment effects of surviving cancer pp. 505-514

John R. Moran, Pamela Farley Short and Christopher S. Hollenbeak

Anatomy of a health scare: Education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK pp. 515-530

Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth

Medicaid's effect on single women's labor supply: Evidence from the introduction of Medicaid pp. 531-548

Erin C. Strumpf

Economics of individualization in comparative effectiveness research and a basis for a patient-centered health care pp. 549-559

Anirban Basu

Smoking initiation among youth: The role of cigarette excise taxes and prices by race/ethnicity and gender pp. 560-567

James M. Nonnemaker and Matthew C. Farrelly

Changing mix of medical care services: Stylized facts and implications for price indexes pp. 568-574

Ana Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak

Why are health care report cards so bad (good)? pp. 575-590

Yijuan Chen

One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior pp. 591-601

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka and Thomas Siedler

Volume 30, issue 2, 2011

The effects of maternity leave on children's birth and infant health outcomes in the United States pp. 221-239

Maya Rossin

The effects of maternal employment on the health of school-age children pp. 240-257

Melinda Sandler Morrill

Insights on unemployment, unemployment insurance, and mental health pp. 258-264

Nathan Tefft

Unpacking the misery multiplier: How employability modifies the impacts of unemployment and job insecurity on life satisfaction and mental health pp. 265-276

Francis Green

The anatomy of absenteeism pp. 277-292

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ole Rogeberg and Simen Gaure

Health and income: A robust comparison of Canada and the US pp. 293-302

Jean-Yves Duclos and Damien Échevin

Effect of large-scale social interactions on body weight pp. 303-316

M. Christopher Auld

The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking pp. 317-327

Partha Deb, William T. Gallo, Padmaja Ayyagari, Jason Fletcher and Jody L. Sindelar

Racial disparities in the cognition-health relationship pp. 328-339

Owen Thompson

Changes in compulsory schooling and the causal effect of education on health: Evidence from Germany pp. 340-354

Daniel Kemptner, Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold

School accountability laws and the consumption of psychostimulants pp. 355-372

Farasat A.S. Bokhari and Helen Schneider

The impact of emergency birth control on teen pregnancy and STIs pp. 373-380

Sourafel Girma and David Paton

Physician division of labor and patient selection for outpatient procedures pp. 381-391

Guy David and Mark D. Neuman

Do bad report cards have consequences? Impacts of publicly reported provider quality information on the CABG market in Pennsylvania pp. 392-407

Justin Wang, Jason M. Hockenberry, Shin-Yi Chou and Muzhe Yang

The effects of hospitals' governance on optimal contracts: Bargaining vs. contracting pp. 408-424

Matteo Maria Galizzi and Marisa Miraldo

Determinants of long-term care spending: Age, time to death or disability? pp. 425-438

Claudine de Meijer, Marc Koopmanschap, d' Uva, Teresa Bago and Eddy K.A. Van Doorslaer

Pricing behaviour of nonprofit insurers in a weakly competitive social health insurance market pp. 439-449

Rudy C.H.M. Douven and Frederik T. Schut

Consumers, health insurance and dominated choices pp. 450-457

Anna D. Sinaiko and Richard A. Hirth

Impact of health savings accounts on precautionary savings, demand for health insurance and prevention effort pp. 458-465

Petra Steinorth

Deriving distributional weights for QALYs through discrete choice experiments pp. 466-478

Emily Lancsar, John Wildman, Cam Donaldson, Mandy Ryan and Rachel Baker

Volume 30, issue 1, 2011

From Angela's ashes to the Celtic tiger: Early life conditions and adult health in Ireland pp. 1-10

Liam Delaney, Mark E. McGovern and James P. Smith

The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence pp. 11-32

Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li

Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption: A quantile regression approach pp. 33-42

Christoph M. Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

The role of education in complex health decisions: Evidence from cancer screening pp. 43-54

Fabian Lange

Health awareness campaigns and diagnosis rates: Evidence from National Breast Cancer Awareness Month pp. 55-61

Grant Douglas Jacobsen and Kathryn H. Jacobsen

Longevity, genes and efforts: An optimal taxation approach to prevention pp. 62-76

M.-L. Leroux, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere

Retirement effects on health in Europe pp. 77-86

Norma B. Coe and Gema Zamarro

Five-a-day, a price to pay: An evaluation of the UK program impact accounting for market forces pp. 87-98

Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi

Enhanced fee-for-service model and physician productivity: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario pp. 99-111

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj and Darrel Weinkauf

Price adjustment in the hospital sector pp. 112-125

Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Street

The effect of Paragraph IV decisions and generic entry before patent expiration on brand pharmaceutical firms pp. 126-145

Laura E. Panattoni

Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship? pp. 146-162

Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates

Do expert patients get better treatment than others? Agency discrimination and statistical discrimination in obstetrics pp. 163-180

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune Sørensen

Designing the financial tools to promote universal access to AIDS care pp. 181-188

Patrick Leoni and Stéphane Luchini

Public vs. private provision of charity care? Evidence from the expiration of Hill-Burton requirements in Florida pp. 189-199

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova

Institutions, health shocks and labour market outcomes across Europe pp. 200-213

Pilar Garcia-Gomez

On the consistent measurement of attainment and shortfall inequality pp. 214-219

Peter Lambert and Buhong Zheng