Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2022

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

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Volume 83, issue C, 2022

Information, relative skill, and technology abandonment

Bingxiao Wu and Guy David

Does unemployment worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour, and selection

Elisabetta De Cao, Barry McCormick and Catia Nicodemo

The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Krzysztof Karbownik

Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs

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

A bit of salt, a trace of life: Gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Zichen Deng and Maarten Lindeboom

Effects of dialogue meetings on sickness absence—Evidence from a large field experiment

Matteo Alpino, Karen Evelyn Hauge, Andreas Kotsadam and Simen Markussen

Measuring quality effects in equilibrium

Seth Richards-Shubik, Mark S. Roberts and Julie M. Donohue

Non-monetary incentives for tobacco prevention among youth in Indonesia

Margaret Triyana and Justin S. White

Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery

Asbjørn G. Andersen, Andreas Kotsadam and Vincent Somville

The role of paid family leave in labor supply responses to a spouse's disability or health shock

Priyanka Anand, Laura Dague and Kathryn L. Wagner

Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health

Libertad Gonzalez and Sofia Trommlerová

Effects of violent media content: Evidence from the rise of the UFC

Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell

Volume 82, issue C, 2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on health care utilization: Evidence from county-level medical claims and cellphone data

Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood, Dena M. Bravata, Megan Pera and Christopher Whaley

Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets

Ziad Ghandour, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Vaccination strategies and transmission of COVID-19: Evidence across advanced countries

Dongwoo Kim and Young Jun Lee

Girls unwanted – The role of parents’ child-specific sex preference for children’s early mental development

Cara Ebert and Sebastian Vollmer

What drives innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaule

Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality

Christopher J. Cronin and William N. Evans

Do disability benefits hinder work resumption after recovery?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller and Roger Prudon

Ordeal mechanisms, information, and the cost-effectiveness of strategies to provide subsidized eyeglasses

Sean Sylvia, Xiaochen Ma, Yaojiang Shi and Scott Rozelle

Drinking water, fracking, and infant health

Elaine Hill and Lala Ma

How scheduling systems with automated appointment reminders improve health clinic efficiency

Claire E Boone, Pablo Celhay, Paul Gertler, Tadeja Gracner and Josefina Rodriguez

A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity

Holger Strulik

Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal

Roxanne Kovacs and Mylene Lagarde

Volume 81, issue C, 2022

The impact of public health sector stockouts on private sector prices and access to healthcare: Evidence from the anti-malarial drug market

Anne Fitzpatrick

The economics of medical procedure innovation

David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Heard and Bingxiao Wu

The effect of co-payments on the take-up of prenatal tests

Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luigi Siciliani and Gilberto Turati

Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: Evidence from US twins

Peter A. Savelyev, Benjamin C. Ward, Robert F. Krueger and Matt McGue

Underage access to alcohol and its impact on teenage drinking and crime

Fabian T. Dehos

Genetic risk scores in life insurance underwriting

Richard Karlsson Linnér and Philipp D. Koellinger

Information shocks and pharmaceutical firms’ marketing efforts: Evidence from the Chantix black box warning removal

Emily C. Lawler and Meghan Skira

Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases

Govert Bijwaard

Treatment consolidation after vertical integration: Evidence from outpatient procedure markets

Michael R. Richards, Jonathan A. Seward and Christopher M. Whaley

Minimum legal drinking age and the social gradient in binge drinking

Alexander Ahammer, Stefan Bauernschuster, Martin Halla and Hannah Lachenmaier

Lockdown, essential sectors, and Covid-19: Lessons from Italy

Edoardo Di Porto, Paolo Naticchioni and Vincenzo Scrutinio

Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements: A register-based population study

Maiken Skovrider Aaskoven, Trine Kjær and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Disruptions to the patient-provider relationship and patient utilization and outcomes: Evidence from medicaid managed care

Becky Staiger

God is in the rain: The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks

Ajay Shenoy, Bhavyaa Sharma, Guanghong Xu, Rolly Kapoor, Haedong Aiden Rho and Kinpritma Sangha

Price and income effects of hospital reimbursements

Matthias Bäuml, Tilman Dette and Michael Pollmann

The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood – Evidence from Sweden

Gerard J. van den Berg and Bettina M. Siflinger

Conditional cash lotteries increase COVID-19 vaccination rates

Andrew Barber and Jeremy West

Tackling the Substance Use Disorder Crisis: The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities

Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Janet Currie

Persistent effects of temporary incentives: Evidence from a nationwide health insurance experiment

Aurelien Baillon, Joseph Capuno, Owen O'Donnell, Carlos Antonio Tan and Kim van Wilgenburg

Volume 80, issue C, 2021

Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan’s Autism Insurance Mandate

Riley Acton, Scott Imberman and Michael Lovenheim

Bittersweet: How prices of sugar-rich foods contribute to the diet-related disease epidemic in Mexico

Tadeja Gračner

Neighborhoods, networks, and delivery methods

Emilia Barili, Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

Physician investment in hospitals: Specialization, selection, and quality in cardiac care

Ashley Swanson

Does the framing of patient cost-sharing incentives matter? the effects of deductibles vs. no-claim refunds

Arthur P. Hayen, Tobias J. Klein and Martin Salm

Heterogeneous effects of consolidation on premiums in Medicare Part D

Nicholas Hill and Mathis Wagner

R&D and market size: Who benefits from orphan drug legislation?

Simona Gamba, Laura Magazzini and Paolo Pertile

Quality provision in hospital markets with demand inertia: The role of patient expectations

Luís Sá and Odd Rune Straume

Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance

Ola Andersson, Pol Campos-Mercade, Armando N. Meier and Erik Wengström

Social capital and the spread of covid-19: Insights from european countries

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski and Nils Wehrhöfer

Early life adversity, biological adaptation, and human capital: evidence from an interrupted malaria control program in Zambia

Günther Fink, Atheendar S. Venkataramani and Arianna Zanolini

New Evidence on the Effects of Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion

Jason Lindo and Mayra Pineda-Torres

The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on native population mortality

Aysun Aygün, Murat Kırdar and Berna Tuncay

Efficient Kidney Exchange with Dichotomous Preferences

Yao Cheng and Zaifu Yang

Marijuana liberalization policies and perinatal health

Angélica Meinhofer, Allison Witman, Jesse M. Hinde and Kosali Simon

The effects of trade-induced worker displacement on health and mortality in Mexico

Sofía Fernández Guerrico

The Effects of Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Rural China

Hui Ding, Yiwei Chen, Min Yu, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie and Karen Eggleston

Forecasting mortality inequalities in the U.S. based on trends in midlife health

Peter Hudomiet, Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

The effect of Medicaid expansion on Medicaid participation, payer mix, and labor supply in primary care

Hannah T. Neprash, Anna Zink, Bethany Sheridan and Katherine Hempstead

Crowd-Out and Emergency Department Utilization

Cameron M. Ellis and Meghan I. Esson

The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being: Evidence from the UK digital switchover

Adrian Nieto Castro and Marc Suhrcke

The Roles of Nutrition Education and Food Vouchers in Improving Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Yaeeun Han, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Seollee Park

Rational addiction and time-consistency: An empirical test

Luca Piccoli and Silvia Tiezzi

The influence of endogenous behaviors among social pairs: Social interaction effects of smoking

Chunxiao Li and Donna Gilleskie

Alternative payment models and physician treatment decisions: Evidence from lower back pain

Yu Ding and Chenyuan Liu

Pure altruism and misjudgement: A bad combination?

Nicolai Fink Simonsen, Trine Kjær and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Discontinuity in care: Practice closures among primary care providers and patient health care utilization

Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper, Niels Skipper and Peter Rønø Thingholm

Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark

Jacob Arendt, Mads Lybech Christensen and Anders Hjorth-Trolle