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 98, issue C, 2024

Do e-cigarette retail licensure laws reduce youth tobacco use?

Charles Courtemanche, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Caterina Muratori and Joseph J. Sabia

Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life

Alice J. Chen and Jing Li

Pharmaceutical innovation collaboration, evaluation, and matching

Qianshuo Liu

The devastating dance between opioid and housing crises: Evidence from OxyContin reformulation

Ashley C. Bradford, Wei Fu and Shijun You

Harm reduction for addictive consumption: When does it improve health and when does it backfire?

John Cawley and Davide Dragone

The effects of tobacco 21 laws on smoking and vaping: Evidence from panel data and biomarkers

Chad Cotti, Philip DeCicca and Erik Nesson

Medical ethics and physician motivations

Brendon Andrews

What’s in the water? Long-run effects of fluoridation on health and economic self-sufficiency

Adam Roberts

The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior

Marie Hull and Ji Yan

Health implications of housing retrofits: Evidence from a population-wide weatherization program

Steffen Künn and Juan Palacios

Universal free school meals and children’s bodyweight. Impacts by age and duration of exposure

Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

The maternal and infant health consequences of restricted access to abortion in the United States

Graham Gardner

Do mandatory waiting periods for abortion increase intimate partner violence?

Christine Piette Durrance, Yang Wang and Barbara Wolfe

Universal Credit: Welfare reform and mental health

Mike Brewer, Thang Dang and Emma Tominey

Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?

Devon Spika, Linnea Wickström Östervall, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Erik Wengström

How does undervaluation in medical savings accounts (MSAs) affect healthcare utilization? Evidence from administrative data in China

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Yuqi Ta

Volume 97, issue C, 2024

A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare

Jan Boone and Minke Remmerswaal

Adverse selection and network design under regulated plan prices: Evidence from Medicaid

Amanda Kreider, Timothy J. Layton, Mark Shepard and Jacob Wallace

Hospital behavior over the private equity life cycle

Michael R. Richards and Christopher M. Whaley

The education-health gradient: Revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills

Miriam Gensowski and Mette Gørtz

Getting the right tail right: Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions

Martin Karlsson, Yulong Wang and Nicolas Ziebarth

The effects of alcohol sale bans on children: The case of Russia

Margarita Petrusevich

Nudging the nudger: Performance feedback and organ donor registrations

Julian House, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Nina Mazar

Housing wealth, fertility and children's health in China: A regression discontinuity design

Geer Ang, Ya Tan, Yingjia Zhai, Fan Zhang and Qinghua Zhang

Financial incentives for sanitation take-up: A randomized control trial in rural Vietnam

Cuong Nguyen and Tung Phung

Investigating the complexity of naloxone distribution: Which policies matter for pharmacies and potential recipients

Rosanna Smart, David Powell, Rosalie Pacula, Evan Peet, Rahi Abouk and Corey S. Davis

Health insurance, agricultural production and investments

Kai Liu, Benjapon Prommawin and Fred Schroyen

Hospital competition when patients learn through experience

Luís Sá and Odd Rune Straume

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