Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2025

Current editor(s): J. P. Newhouse, A. J. Culyer, R. Frank, K. Claxton and T. McGuire

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Volume 104, issue C, 2025

Impact of primary care market mergers on quality: Evidence from the English NHS

Yuan Lyu and Zhaocheng Zhang

The effect of peers’ genetic predisposition to depression on own mental health

Yeongmi Jeong

Algorithmic decision-making in health care: Evidence from post-acute care in Medicare Advantage

Jeffrey Marr

Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program

Jakub Červený, Tomáš Hellebrandt and Peter Kravec

Do doctors contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in health care provision? An audit experiment in Tunisia

Rym Ghouma, Mylène Lagarde and Timothy Powell-Jackson

When do supply-side drug control policies save lives? Evidence from pharmacy methadone restrictions

J. Travis Donahoe and Coleman Drake

Polluted air, healthier diets: Household food consumption patterns in response to air quality in China

Wei Huang, Keyan Xiang, Xi Yu and Hong Zou

Seasonal allergies and mental health: Do small health shocks affect suicidality?

Joelle Abramowitz, Shooshan Danagoulian and Owen Fleming

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study

Sanna Bergvall, Clara Fernström, Eva Ranehill and Anna Sandberg

Supply-side opioid restrictions and the retail pharmacy market

Anne M. Burton and Brandyn F. Churchill

Prioritisation, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed healthcare system

Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernández

From addiction to aggression: The spillover effects of opioid policies on intimate partner violence

Dhaval Dave, Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin and Shuo Zhang

Abortion restrictions and intimate partner violence in the Dobbs Era

Dhaval Dave, Christine Piette Durrance, Bilge Erten, Yang Wang and Barbara Wolfe

The intergenerational health effects of child marriage bans

Dung D. Le, Teresa Molina, Yoko Ibuka and Rei Goto

Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal

Thomas Thivillon

The effect of West German television on smoking and health: A natural experiment from German reunification

Andrea Bernini and Sven A. Hartmann

Minimum legal drinking age and educational outcomes

Manuel Bagues and Carmen Villa

The time cost of a disability

Daniel S. Hamermesh and Michał Myck

Partial rating area offering and tests for anticompetitive market segmentation in the ACA Marketplaces

Hanming Fang and Ami Ko

Contraceptive access and infant health outcomes

James Flynn

Fertility responses to tropical cyclones: Causal evidence and mechanisms

Ha Nguyen and Francis Mitrou

Optimal mental health belief formation with information avoidance: A decision-theoretic model

Daehyun Kim

The impact of vertical integration on health care delivery and costs: Evidence from physician–pharmacy integration

Pragya Kakani

Volume 103, issue C, 2025

Lost in the net? Broadband internet and youth mental health

Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio and Dijana Zejcirovic

The effect of housing wealth on health care spending

Michael F. Lovenheim and Jun Hyun Yun

Effects of informal caring on labour market outcomes of carers: Evidence from HILDA

Pelin Akyol and Matt Nolan

Explaining the long-term care insurance puzzle: The role of preferences for correlation and for quality of life over wealth

David Crainich, Léontine Goldzahl, Florence Jusot and Doriane Mignon

Corrigendum to “Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 99, January 2025, 102941]

Conor Lennon, Johanna Catherine Maclean and Keith Teltser

Abortion access and child protective services involvement

Christine Piette Durrance, Yang Wang and Barbara Wolfe

The effects of state paid sick leave mandates on parental childcare time

Johanna Catherine Maclean and Sabrina Pabilonia

The effects of restricted abortion access on IUDs and vasectomies: Evidence from Texas

Bradley Crowe, Graham Gardner and Cara Haughey

Nursing home payroll subsidies and the trade-off between staffing and access to care for Medicaid enrollees

Thomas A. Hegland

Overcoming medical overuse with AI assistance: An experimental investigation

Ziyi Wang, Lijia Wei and Lian Xue

The impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice laws on preventable hospitalizations

Benjamin J. McMichael

Firm quality and health maintenance

Anikó Bíró and Péter Elek

Impacts of health checkup programs standardization on working-age self-employed and unemployed: Insights from Japan’s local government response to national policy

Masato Oikawa, Takamasa Otake, Toshihide Awatani, Haruko Noguchi and Akira Kawamura

Intergenerational effects of sick leave on child human capital

Julie Riise, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

The effects of earned income tax credits on intergenerational health mobility in the United States

Katie Jajtner and Yang Wang

Nonlinear reimbursement rules for preventive and curative medical care

Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

Prescribing power and equitable access to care: Evidence from pharmacists in Ontario, Canada

Alex Hoagland and Guan Wang

Longevity, Education, and Income: How large is the triangle?

Hoyt Bleakley

Using stock price movements to estimate the harm from collusive drug patent litigation settlements

Keith M. Drake and Thomas G. McGuire

Volume 102, issue C, 2025

The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life

Serena Yu, Kei Lui, Denzil Fiebig, Javeed Travadi, Caroline SE Homer, Lynn Sinclair, Vanessa Scarf and Rosalie Viney

Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses

Yujie Feng

When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision

Gerald J. Pruckner, Flora Stiftinger and Katrin Zocher

Legal status and voluntary abortions by immigrants

Luca Pieroni, Melcior Rosselló Roig, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati

Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors’ referrals?

Scott Barkowski

Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior

Adeline Delavande, Emilia Del Bono and Angus Holford

Absence from work and lifetime smoking behavior: Evidence from European maternal leave policies

Anna-Theresa Renner, Mujaheed Shaikh and Sonja Spitzer

Regression and decomposition with ordinal health outcomes

Qian Wu and David Kaplan

The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use

Chad Cotti, Charles Courtemanche, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson and Joseph J. Sabia

High speed internet and the widening gender gap in adolescent mental health: Evidence from Spanish hospital records

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernandez-Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger

Mental health and mortality trends in the United States

Christopher J. Ruhm

Living alone and provider behaviour in public and private hospitals

Luigi Siciliani, Jinglin Wen and James Gaughan

Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health

Matthew Robson, O’Donnell, Owen and Tom Van Ourti

Technology regulation reconsidered: The effects of certificate of need policies on the quantity and quality of diagnostic imaging

Jill R. Horwitz, Austin Nichols, Anthony Yu, Carrie H. Colla and David M. Cutler

A change of plans: Switching costs in the procurement of health insurance

Eran Politzer

The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxes on Substance Use

Dhaval Dave, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Caterina Muratori and Joseph J. Sabia

Heterogeneous peer effects and gender-based interventions for teenage obesity

Margherita Comola, Rokhaya Dieye and Bernard Fortin

The impact of the Female Secondary School Stipend Program on child health

Md Shahjahan, Giulia La Mattina and Padmaja Ayyagari

Back to school: The effect of school visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 outcomes

Dena Bravata, Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley

Attentional processes underlying health state valuation with time trade-off and standard gamble tasks

Stefan A. Lipman and Thorsten Pachur

Do for-profit hospitals cream-skim patients? Evidence from inpatient psychiatric care in California

Donghoon Lee, Anirban Basu, Jerome A. Dugan and Pinar Karaca-Mandic

Regional variation in mental healthcare utilization and suicide: Evidence from movers in Australia

Karinna Saxby, Thomas Buchmueller, Sonja C. de New and Dennis Petrie