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 96, issue C, 2024

Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara

Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Thorben Korfhage and Björn Fischer-Weckemann

The effect of a peer’s teen pregnancy on sexual behavior

Priyanka Anand and Lisa B. Kahn

Who responds to longer wait times? The effects of predicted emergency wait times on the health and volume of patients who present for care

Stephenson Strobel

Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India

Stephen O'Neill, Richard Grieve, Kultar Singh, Varun Dutt and Timothy Powell-Jackson

Volume 95, issue C, 2024

Safer sex? The effect of AIDS risk on birth rates

Melissa Spencer

Analyzing health outcomes measured as bounded counts

John Mullahy

Born on the wrong side of the tracks: Exploring the causal effects of segregation on infant health

Hoa Vu, Tiffany L. Green and Laura E.T. Swan

The demand for skills training among Medicaid home-based caregivers

Christopher Cronin and Ethan Lieber

Politics and health care spending in the United States: A case study from the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act

Zack Cooper, Amanda Kowalski, Eleanor Neff Powell and Jennifer D. Wu

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

Rahi Abouk, Prabal K. De and Michael F. Pesko

Competition, quality and integrated health care

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Free-for-all: Does crowding impact outcomes because hospital emergency departments do not prioritise effectively?

Igor Francetic, Rachel Meacock and Matt Sutton

The hidden toll of the pandemic: Excess mortality in non-COVID-19 hospital patients

Thiemo Fetzer, Christopher Rauh and Clara Schreiner

Quality- and productivity-adjusted life years: From QALYs to PALYs and beyond

Kristian S. Hansen, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars P. Østerdal

Parental health penalty on adult children’s employment: Gender differences and long-term consequences

Jiayi Wen and Haili Huang

The cost of influence: How gifts to physicians shape prescriptions and drug costs

Melissa Newham and Marica Valente

Volume 94, issue C, 2024

Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Maria Humlum, Marius Opstrup Morthorst and Peter Rønø Thingholm

The impact of scope-of-practice restrictions on access to medical care

Jiapei Guo, Angela E. Kilby and Mindy Marks

Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology

Daniel Avdic, Stephanie von Hinke, Bo Lagerqvist, Carol Propper and Johan Vikström

Regulating ethical experimentation: Impacts of the breakthrough therapy designation on drug R&D

Manuel Hermosilla

Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused

Matthew Robson, O’Donnell, Owen and Tom Van Ourti

Risk preferences over health: Empirical estimates and implications for medical decision-making

Karen Mulligan, Drishti Baid, Jason N. Doctor, Charles E. Phelps and Darius Lakdawalla

The impact of Medicaid expansion and travel distance on access to transplantation

Bethany Lemont

Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans

Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado

Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales

Rahi Abouk, Prabal K. De and Michael Pesko

Optimal intertemporal curative drug expenses: The case of hepatitis C in France

Pierre Dubois and Thierry Magnac

A new look at physicians’ responses to financial incentives: Quality of care, practice characteristics, and motivations

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz, Johanna Kokot and Daniel Wiesen

Financial incentives and private health insurance demand on the extensive and intensive margins

Nathan Kettlewell and Yuting Zhang

The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories

Alberto Prati and Charlotte Saucet

The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition

Ajin Lee and Boris Vabson

Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?

Tapio Haaga, Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen and Janne Tukiainen

Pricing above value: Selling to a market with selection problems

Jan Boone

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

Pharmaceutical demand response to utilization management

Oren Sarig

Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

Jonas Cuzulan Hirani and Miriam Wüst

The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica

Claudio Mora-García, Madeline Pesec and Andrea M. Prado

The labour market returns to sleep

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche and Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Socioeconomic status and access to mental health care: The case of psychiatric medications for children in Ontario Canada

Janet Currie, Paul Kurdyak and Jonathan Zhang

Valuing life over the life cycle

Pascal St-Amour

Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?

Ranjeeta Thomas, Matteo Galizzi, Louisa Moorhouse, Constance Nyamukapa and Timothy B. Hallett

Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health

Shaun Da Costa, O’Donnell, Owen and Raf Van Gestel

Volume 92, issue C, 2023

Effects of organized screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe

Sophie Guthmuller, Vincenzo Carrieri and Ansgar Wübker

Causal effects of mental health on food security

Helen Jensen, Brent E. Kreider, John Pepper, Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy and Kimberly A. Greder

The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom

Panka Bencsik, Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder

Patient and peer: Guideline design and expert response

Jane Greve, Søren Kristensen and Nis Lydiksen

Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Changing preferences: An experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism

Undral Byambadalai, Ching-to Ma and Daniel Wiesen

Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates

Aileen M. Devlin and Grace McCormack

Health outcomes and provider choice under full practice authority for certified nurse-midwives

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Diana R. Jolles, Alicia Plemmons and Adan Silverio-Murillo

Do tobacco 21 laws work?

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Drew McNichols and Calvin Bryan

Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine

Eli Liebman, Emily C. Lawler, Abe Dunn and David Ridley

Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States

Hessam Bavafa, Anita Mukherjee and Tyler Q. Welch

Physician-patient race-match reduces patient mortality

Andrew J. Hill, Daniel B. Jones and Lindsey Woodworth

The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage

Jessica H. Brown

The health effects of nursing home specialization in post-acute care

Zachary S. Templeton, Nate C. Apathy, R. Tamara Konetzka, Meghan M. Skira and Rachel M. Werner

Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences

Xinjie Shi, Yu Shen and Ran Song

Do minimum wage laws affect employer-sponsored insurance provision?

Mark K. Meiselbach and Jean M. Abraham

How do hospitals respond to input regulation? Evidence from the California nurse staffing mandate

Chandni Raja

The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog

Stephanie von Hinke and Emil N. Sørensen

Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign

Philipp Barteska, Sonja Dobkowitz, Maarit Olkkola and Michael Rieser

Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data

Hyunchul Kim and Dongwon Lee

Does informal care delay nursing home entry? Evidence from Dutch linked survey and administrative data

Julien Bergeot and Marianne Tenand