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 107, issue C, 2026

The effects of e-cigarette and cigarette policies on queer youth

Tony Chuo, Chad Cotti, Charles Courtemanche, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson and Joseph J. Sabia

The value of a park in crises: Quantifying the health and wellbeing benefits of green spaces using exogenous variations in use values

Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel and Katrin Rehdanz

Overstretched: Financial distress and intimate partner violence in the U.S

Olivia Masi and Chiara Santantonio

Invisible threat, tangible harm: Radiation anxiety and birth outcomes after Fukushima

Rong Fu, Yunkyu Sohn, Yichen Shen and Haruko Noguchi

The anatomy of a public health crisis: Household responses over the course of the Zika epidemic in Brazil

Ildo Lautharte and Imran Rasul

Gender-specific effects of prenatal famine exposure on educational attainment: Accounting for selective mortality

Hiroyuki Kasahara and Weina Zhou

Physician practice preferences and healthcare expenditures: Evidence from commercial payers

Jeffrey Clemens, Pierre-Thomas Leger, Yashna Nandan and Robert Town

Air quality and suicide

Claudia Persico and Dave E. Marcotte

Health insurance portability and coverage: Evidence from China’s cross-regional instant reimbursement reform

Huang Chen, Yunxiao Wang and Yang Yue

Heterogeneous disability shocks and the dynamics of income, employment, and partial insurance

Robert Millard

Workload and team performance in health care: Evidence from Kenya

Dan Han, Emma Clarke-Deelder and Margaret McConnell

The Road to Healthier Diet: Benefits of the “Five Vertical and Seven Horizontal” National Trunk Highway System in China

Xuyuan Zheng, Qinglin Lin, Gang Xie, Xiaohua Yu and Chengfang Liu

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 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 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 Mendez 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