Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2018

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

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Volume 62, issue C, 2018

Smoking kills: An economic theory of addiction, health deficit accumulation, and longevity pp. 1-12

Holger Strulik

The impact of early life shocks on human capital formation: evidence from El Niño floods in Ecuador pp. 13-44

Rosales-Rueda, Maria

Plastic surgery or primary care? Altruistic preferences and expected specialty choice of U.S. medical students pp. 45-59

Jing Li

Activation against absenteeism – Evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Norway pp. 60-68

Øystein Hernæs

Uncertainty about the effort–performance relationship in threshold-based payment schemes pp. 69-83

Anne Sophie Oxholm, Søren Rud Kristensen and Matt Sutton

Mental health and the response to financial incentives: Evidence from a survey incentives experiment pp. 84-94

Claryn S.J. Kung, David Johnston and Michael A. Shields

The limits of simple implementation intentions: Evidence from a field experiment on making plans to exercise pp. 95-104

Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor and Dmitry Taubinsky

Impact and spill-over effects of an asset transfer program on child undernutrition: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Bangladesh pp. 105-120

Wameq Raza, Ellen Van de Poel and Tom Van Ourti

The effect of primary care visits on other health care utilization: A randomized controlled trial of cash incentives offered to low income, uninsured adults in Virginia pp. 121-133

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark and Lauryn Saxe Walker

How disability insurance reforms change the consequences of health shocks on income and employment pp. 134-146

Patrick Hullegie and Pierre Koning

Household demand persistence for child micronutrient supplementation pp. 147-164

Travis J. Lybbert, Stephen A. Vosti, Katherine P. Adams and Rosemonde Guissou

The effect of retirement on healthcare utilization: Evidence from China pp. 165-177

Yi Zhang, Martin Salm and Arthur van Soest

Volume 61, issue C, 2018

Price competition in pharmaceuticals – Evidence from 1303 Swedish markets pp. 1-12

David Granlund and Mats A. Bergman

Quality disclosure and the timing of insurers’ adjustments: Evidence from medicare advantage pp. 13-26

Ian McCarthy

Unintended consequences of supply-side cost control? Evidence from China's new cooperative medical scheme pp. 27-46

Marc Chan and Guohua Zeng

Effects of episode-based payment on health care spending and utilization: Evidence from perinatal care in Arkansas pp. 47-62

Caitlin Carroll, Michael Chernew, A. Mark Fendrick, Joe Thompson and Sherri Rose

Low-cost approaches to increasing gym attendance pp. 63-76

Timothy Beatty and Bhagyashree Katare

Paying more for less? Insurer competition and health plan generosity in the Medicare Advantage program pp. 77-92

Daria Pelech

Deriving risk adjustment payment weights to maximize efficiency of health insurance markets pp. 93-110

Timothy Layton, Thomas G. McGuire and Richard C. van Kleef

Firm responses to targeted consumer incentives: Evidence from reference pricing for surgical services pp. 111-133

Christopher M. Whaley and Timothy T. Brown

Shale gas development and infant health: Evidence from Pennsylvania pp. 134-150

Elaine Hill

Individual results may vary: Inequality-probability bounds for some health-outcome treatment effects pp. 151-162

John Mullahy

Gun prevalence and suicide pp. 163-177

Simone Balestra

Does experience rating reduce sickness and disability claims? Evidence from policy kinks pp. 178-192

Tomi Kyyrä and Tuuli Paukkeri

Dying to win? Olympic Gold medals and longevity pp. 193-204

Adam Leive

The relationship between cigarettes and electronic cigarettes: Evidence from household panel data pp. 205-219

Chad Cotti, Erik Nesson and Nathan Tefft

Economic status, air quality, and child health: Evidence from inversion episodes pp. 220-232

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson and J. Peter Nilsson

Hospital coordination and integration with social care in England: The effect on post-operative length of stay pp. 233-243

Jose Luis Fernandez, Alistair McGuire and Maria Raikou

The effect of integration of hospitals and post-acute care providers on Medicare payment and patient outcomes pp. 244-258

R. Tamara Konetzka, Elizabeth A. Stuart and Rachel M. Werner

Moneyball in Medicare pp. 259-273

Edward Norton, Jun Li, Anup Das and Lena M. Chen

Volume 60, issue C, 2018

Exploding asthma and ADHD caseloads: The role of medicaid managed care pp. 1-15

Anna Chorniy, Janet Currie and Lyudmyla Sonchak

Blended capitation and incentives: Fee codes inside and outside the capitated basket pp. 16-29

Xue Zhang and Arthur Sweetman

End-of-life healthcare expenditure: Testing economic explanations using a discrete choice experiment pp. 30-38

Barbara Fischer, Harry Telser and Peter Zweifel

Blowing up money? The earnings penalty of smoking in the 1970s and the 21st century pp. 39-52

Elisabeth Lång and Paul Nystedt

Basic versus supplementary health insurance: Access to care and the role of cost effectiveness pp. 53-74

Jan Boone

Effects of Medicare coverage for the chronically ill on health insurance, utilization, and mortality: Evidence from coverage expansions affecting people with end-stage renal disease pp. 75-89

Martin Andersen

Narrow provider networks and willingness to pay for continuity of care and network breadth pp. 90-97

Lucas Higuera, Caroline S. Carlin and Bryan Dowd

Choice in the presence of experts: The role of general practitioners in patients’ hospital choice pp. 98-117

Walter Beckert

Roads and the spread of HIV in Africa pp. 118-141

Elodie Djemai

Adoption and learning across hospitals: The case of a revenue-generating practice pp. 142-164

Adam Sacarny

Health care in a multi-payer system: Spillovers of health care service demand among adults under 65 on utilization and outcomes in medicare pp. 165-176

Sherry Glied and Kai Hong

The role of health insurance on treatment for opioid use disorders: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion pp. 177-197

Angélica Meinhofer and Allison E. Witman

Volume 59, issue C, 2018

Is it good to be too light? Birth weight thresholds in hospital reimbursement systems pp. 1-25

Simon Reif, Sebastian Wichert and Amelie Wuppermann

The effect of workforce assignment on performance: Evidence from home health care pp. 26-45

Guy David and Kunhee Lucy Kim

It's about time: Cesarean sections and neonatal health pp. 46-59

Costa-Ramón, Ana María, Rodríguez-González, Ana, Serra-Burriel, Miquel and Campillo-Artero, Carlos

The economics of patient-centered care pp. 60-77

Guy David, Philip A. Saynisch and Smith-McLallen, Aaron

Job loss, firm-level heterogeneity and mortality: Evidence from administrative data pp. 78-90

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

Can natural gas save lives? Evidence from the deployment of a fuel delivery system in a developing country pp. 91-108

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

Patient cost-sharing, socioeconomic status, and children's health care utilization pp. 109-124

Anton Nilsson and Alexander Paul

Are coresidence and nursing homes substitutes? Evidence from Medicaid spend-down provisions pp. 125-138

Corina Mommaerts

The effect of hospital acquisitions of physician practices on prices and spending pp. 139-152

Cory Capps, David Dranove and Christopher Ody

Violence, selection and infant mortality in Congo pp. 153-177

Olivier Dagnelie, Giacomo Davide De Luca and Jean-François Maystadt