Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2023

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

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Volume 91, issue C, 2023

Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws

Sumedha Gupta, Thuy Nguyen, Patricia R. Freeman and Kosali Simon

The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment

D. Mark Anderson, Ron Diris, Raymond Montizaan and Daniel I. Rees

The morning after: Prescription-free access to emergency contraceptive pills

Gregor Pfeifer and Mirjam Stockburger

Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC

Marianne Bitler, Janet Currie, Hilary Hoynes, Krista Ruffini, Lisa Schulkind and Barton Willage

Pricing regulations in individual health insurance: Evidence from Medigap

Vilsa E. Curto

An optimal mechanism to fund the development of vaccines against emerging epidemics

Christopher M. Snyder, Kendall Hoyt and Dimitrios Gouglas

Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure

Dora L. Costa

The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world

Elisabetta Aurino, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Alessandro Tarozzi and Brendan Tinoco

Does drug decriminalization increase unintentional drug overdose deaths?

Noah Spencer

Beyond particulate matter: New evidence on the causal effects of air pollution on mortality

Maoyong Fan, Hanchen Jiang and Maigeng Zhou

Heat and worker health

Andrew Ireland, David Johnston and Rachel Knott

Private equity and healthcare firm behavior: Evidence from ambulatory surgery centers

Haizhen Lin, Elizabeth L. Munnich, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley and Xiaoxi Zhao

Cognitive ability, health policy, and the dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson and Mattias Öhman

Volume 90, issue C, 2023

The intracorrelation of family health insurance and job lock

Marion Aouad

Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?

Dhaval Dave, Yang Liang, Michael F. Pesko, Serena Phillips and Joseph J. Sabia

Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth

Arthur E. Attema, Olivier L'Haridon and Gijs van de Kuilen

Universal cash transfers and prescription utilization: Evidence from the Alaska permanent fund dividend

Mouhcine Guettabi and Allison Witman

Public long-term care insurance and consumption of elderly households: Evidence from China

Hong Liu, Jinqiu Ma and Liqiu Zhao

Hospital concentration and low-income populations: Evidence from New York State Medicaid

Sunita M. Desai, Prianca Padmanabhan, Alan Z. Chen, Ashley Lewis and Sherry A. Glied

On the bright side of market concentration in a mixed-oligopoly healthcare industry

Michele Bisceglia, Jorge Padilla, Salvatore Piccolo and Pekka Sääskilahti

Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities? A questionnaire study of majorization and invariance conditions

Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Tom Van Ourti and Amar Soebhag

On resource allocation in health care: The case of concierge medicine

Adam Leive, Guy David and Molly Candon

Estimating the welfare gains from anti-retroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Shaun Da Costa

The price of cost-effectiveness thresholds under therapeutic competition in pharmaceutical markets

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

The effect of RCTs on drug demand: Evidence from off-label cancer drugs

Rebecca McKibbin

Adoption and utilization of device-assisted telemedicine

Dan Zeltzer, Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi and Ran D. Balicer

Family spillovers and long-term care insurance

Norma B. Coe, Gopi Shah Goda and Courtney Harold Van Houtven

Minimum generosity levels in a competitive health insurance market

Minke Remmerswaal, Jan Boone and Rudy Douven

Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois

Ali Abbasi, Francis J. DiTraglia, Ludovica Gazze and Bridget Pals

Volume 89, issue C, 2023

A drop of love? Rainfall shocks and spousal abuse: Evidence from rural Peru

Juan Jose Diaz and Victor Saldarriaga

Should physicians team up to treat chronic diseases?

Malte Griebenow

Providers, peers and patients. How do physicians’ practice environments affect patient outcomes?

Daniel Avdic, Maryna Ivets, Bo Lagerqvist and Ieva Sriubaite

Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S

Travis Campbell and Yana Rodgers

The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales

Mary Reader

Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado

Coleman Drake, David Anderson, Sih-Ting Cai and Daniel W. Sacks

Do urgent care centers reduce Medicare spending?

Janet Currie, Anastasia Karpova and Dan Zeltzer

The impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program on Critical Access Hospitals: Evidence from Medicare Part B

Dan Han

Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance

Johannes Schünemann, Holger Strulik and Timo Trimborn

Volume 88, issue C, 2023

Mask mandates save lives

Niels-Jakob H. Hansen and Rui C. Mano

Spatial dependence in physicians’ prices and additional fees: Evidence from France

Benjamin Montmartin and Marcos Herrera-Gómez

Hooked on weight control: An economic theory of anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity

Holger Strulik

Negative effects of long parental leave on maternal health: Evidence from a substantial policy change in Austria

Caroline Chuard

Self-reported health status and latent health dynamics

Matthew N. White

Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths

Neil K. Mathur and Christopher J. Ruhm

The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market

My Tran, Brenda Gannon and Christiern Rose

Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions

Christopher S. Carpenter, Brandyn Churchill and Michelle Marcus

Volume 87, issue C, 2023

Soil zinc deficiency and child stunting: Evidence from Nepal

Leah Bevis, Kichan Kim and David Guerena

The effects of pregnancy-related Medicaid expansions on maternal, infant, and child health

Melanie Guldi and Sarah Hamersma

The kids aren’t alright: The effects of medical marijuana market size on adolescents

Rosanna Smart and Jacqueline Doremus

Early childhood health shocks, classroom environment, and social-emotional outcomes

Weina Zhou and Shun Wang

Local economic growth and infant mortality

Andreas Kammerlander and Günther G. Schulze

Reductions in out-of-pocket prices and forward-looking moral hazard in health care demand

Naimi Johansson, Sonja C. de New, Johannes Kunz, Dennis Petrie and Mikael Svensson

Rents for Pills: Financial incentives and physician behavior

Tobias Müller, Christian Schmid and Michael Gerfin

The power of markets: Impact of desert locust invasions on child health

Bruno Conte, Lavinia Piemontese and Augustin Tapsoba

Does retirement (really) increase informal caregiving? Quasi-experimental evidence from Australia

Rong Zhu and Ilke Onur

QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health

Juan Moreno-Ternero, Trine Platz and Lars Peter Østerdal

Contracts for primary and secondary care physicians and equity-efficiency trade-offs

Oddvar Kaarboe and Luigi Siciliani

The formation of physician altruism

Arthur Attema, Matteo Galizzi, Mona Groß, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Yassin Karay, L’Haridon, Olivier and Daniel Wiesen

Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, health expenditure growth, and welfare

Ivan Frankovic and Michael Kuhn

Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital

Giorgia Menta, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew Clark, Simone Ghislandi and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Do different shocks in health matter for wealth?

Johan Bonekamp and Bram Wouterse

Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use

Rahi Abouk, Charles Courtemanche, Dhaval Dave, Bo Feng, Abigail S. Friedman, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Michael Pesko, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news

Marco Colagrossi, Claudio Deiana, Davide Dragone, Andrea Geraci, Ludovica Giua and Elisa Iori

The drug crisis and the living arrangements of children

Kasey Buckles, William N. Evans and Ethan M.J. Lieber