Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2026

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

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Volume 106, issue C, 2026

The effects of wealth shocks on public and private long-term care insurance

Joan Costa-Font, Richard G Frank and Nilesh Raut

Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? Evidence from households in extreme poverty

Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Imran Rasul, Francesca Salvati and Molly Scott

What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exit of Cuban doctors in Brazil

Stefan Sliwa Ruiz, Malte Becker, Thomas Hone and Rudi Rocha

Housing affordability and domestic violence: The case of San Francisco’s rent control policies

Eilidh Geddes and Nicole Holz

Community health teams and health utilization in El Salvador

Antonella Bancalari, Pedro Bernal, Pablo Celhay, Sebastian Martinez and Maria Deni Sánchez

Reform-induced competition: Evaluating the impact on Swiss pharmacies and total drug costs

Marc Anderes

Subsidizing contraception: Effects on contraceptive coverage, abortions, and births

Sarah Rosenberg

Learner driving experience and motor vehicle accidents

Nathan Kettlewell and Peter Siminski

Obesity, sedentary behavior and lifestyle: A lifecycle model of eating and physical activity

Davide Dragone, Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Richard F. Hartl, Peter M. Kort, Andrea Seidl and Stefan Wrzaczek

The impact of immunotherapy on reductions in cancer mortality: Evidence from Medicare

Danea Horn, Abby Alpert, Mark Duggan and Mireille Jacobson

Corrigendum to “Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 96, June 2024, 102883]

Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara

The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank

Ailun Shui, Gerard J. van den Berg, Jochen O. Mierau and Laura Viluma

The effects of delayed remuneration on doctor labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS

Carol Propper, George Stoye and Max Warner

Unhooking the past: Early-life exposure to hookworm eradication and later-life longevity

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Nurse practitioner training and local medical provider supply

Anja F. Gruber, Anders Van Sandt, Craig W. Carpenter and Scott Loveridge

Shared Stakes in English General Practice: The Impact of Practice Managers as Partners on Outcomes

Sean Urwin, Ben Walker and Michael Anderson

Volume 105, issue C, 2026

Nursing shortages and patient outcomes

Elaine Kelly, Carol Propper and Ben Zaranko

Does telemedicine technology affect prescribing quality in primary care? The case of antibiotics

Daniel Avdic, Johannes Kunz, Susan J. Méndez and Maria Wiśniewska

Has the shortened drug distribution chain cut drug prices? Evidence from the Two-Invoice System in China

Xiaoxi Li, Fanyu Liu, Jianye Yan and Nina Yin

Individualized disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses

Maathumai Ranjan and Robert Breunig

Workforce impacts of subsidised mental healthcare: Evidence on supply, geographic distribution, and earnings

Nicole Black, Anthony Harris, David W. Johnston and Trong-Anh Trinh

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 Burton and Brandyn F. Churchill

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

Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

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 Hamermesh and Michal 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 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