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 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 G 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 M. 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

Volume 101, issue C, 2025

The incentive to treat: Physician agency and the expansion of the 340B drug pricing program

Danea Horn

Long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring: Evidence from routine health examinations in early childhood

Yinhe Liang, Xiaobo Peng and Meiping Aggie Sun

The long term benefits of the measles vaccine in Mexico

Alicia Atwood and Sarah Pearlman

The impact of budget cuts on individual patient health: Causal evidence from hospital closures

Simone Ghislandi, Anna-Theresa Renner and Nirosha Elsem Varghese

Taking the competitor’s pill: When combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets

Kurt R. Brekke, Dag Morten Dalen and Odd Rune Straume

The effects of Vietnam-era military service on the long-term health of veterans: A bounds analysis

Xintong Wang, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Disability insurance screening and worker health

Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham

The impact of team-based primary care on quality-related healthcare services and access to primary care: Norway's primary healthcare teams pilot program

Øyvind Snilsberg and Tor Iversen

How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law

Casper Hansen and Holger Strulik

Effects of income on infant health: Evidence from the expanded child tax credit and pandemic stimulus checks

Wei Lyu, George L. Wehby and Robert Kaestner

Corrigendum to “Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Increase Organ Donor Registrations” [Journal of Health Economics, 97, 102914, 2024]

Julian House, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Nina Mazar

COVID-19 and mortality among infants: Evidence from India

Erdal Asker, Shatakshee Dhongde and Abu S. Shonchoy

The impacts of health shocks on household labor supply and domestic production

Giovanni Di Meo and Onur Eryilmaz

Corrigendum to “Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102859]

Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado

Social genetic insurance: A life-cycle perspective

Hélène Schernberg

Procurement institutions and essential drug supply in low and middle-income countries

Lucy Xiaolu Wang and Nahim Bin Zahur

Does physician-hospital vertical integration signal care-coordination? Evidence from mover-stayer analysis of commercially insured enrollees

William Encinosa and Avi Dor

Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]

Rahi Abouk, Prabal De and Michael F. Pesko

Volume 100, issue C, 2025

The pharmacist will see you now: Pharmacist prescribed contraceptives and fertility rates

Daniel Grossman, Arijit Ray and Allyssa Wadsworth

Is supported employment effective for Disability Insurance recipients with mental health conditions? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Belgium

Sébastien Fontenay and Ilan Tojerow

Intensive care supply and admission decisions

Seth Freedman, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Diana R. Jolles

Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation

Marcella Alsan, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister and Ayotomiwa Ojo

The effect of smoking cessation on mental health: Evidence from a randomized trial

Katherine Meckel and Katherine Rittenhouse

Income receipt, economic activities, and health: Evidence from ambulance transport patterns

Yoko Ibuka and Junya Hamaaki

Implications of the decline in LGBT rights for population mental health: Evidence from Polish “LGBT-free zones”

Chad Meyerhoefer, Bingjin Xue and Anna Poznańska

Volume 99, issue C, 2025

Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment

Conor Lennon, Johanna Catherine Maclean and Keith Teltser

Triage at shift changes and distortions in the perception and treatment of emergency patients

Simone Ferro and Chiara Serra

Driving under the influence of allergies: the effect of seasonal pollen on traffic fatalities

Shooshan Danagoulian and Monica Deza

The light of life: The effects of sunlight on suicide

Shinsuke Tanaka and Tetsuya Matsubayashi

Moral hazard and risk adjustment

Gijsbert Zwart

Biological age and predicting future health care utilisation

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones