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 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

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 Snyder, Kendall Hoyt and Dimitrios Gouglas

Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure

Dora 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 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 Pesko, Serena Phillips and Joseph J. Sabia

Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth

Arthur 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 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 Coe, Gopi 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