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 58, issue C, 2018

First do no harm – The impact of financial incentives on dental X-rays pp. 1-9

Martin Chalkley and Stefan Listl

Female babies and risk-aversion: Causal evidence from hospital wards pp. 10-17

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew Oswald and David Haig

The Great Recession and Workers’ Health Benefits pp. 18-28

Kanghyock Koh

Do medical marijuana laws reduce addictions and deaths related to pain killers? pp. 29-42

David Powell, Rosalie Pacula and Mireille Jacobson

Does long-term care subsidization reduce hospital admissions and utilization? pp. 43-66

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Cristina Vilaplana

Allocation rules for global donors pp. 67-75

Alec Morton, Ashwin Arulselvan and Ranjeeta Thomas

Children’s education and parental old age survival – Quasi-experimental evidence on the intergenerational effects of human capital investment pp. 76-89

Jan-Walter De Neve and Günther Fink

Nurse practitioner independence, health care utilization, and health outcomes pp. 90-109

Jeffrey Traczynski and Victoria Udalova

Can amputation save the hospital? The impact of the Medicare Rural Flexibility Program on demand and welfare pp. 110-122

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Claudio Lucarelli, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler and Robert Town

The effects of immigration on NHS waiting times pp. 123-143

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Competitive long-term health insurance pp. 144-150

Thomas Wiseman

Employment, job skills and occupational mobility of cancer survivors pp. 151-175

Eskil Heinesen, Susumu Imai and Shiko Maruyama

Getting a healthy start: The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices pp. 176-187

Rachel Griffith, Stephanie von Hinke and Sarah Smith

Giving and promising gifts: Experimental evidence on reciprocity from the field pp. 188-201

J. Michelle Brock, Andreas Lange and Kenneth Leonard

Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? Experimental evidence with new gym members pp. 202-214

Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr and Justin Sydnor

Does postponing minimum retirement age improve healthy behaviors before retirement? Evidence from middle-aged Italian workers pp. 215-227

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Gianluca Mazzarella

Increasing breast-cancer screening uptake: A randomized controlled experiment pp. 228-252

Léontine Goldzahl, Guillaume Hollard and Florence Jusot

Kingpin approaches to fighting crime and community violence: Evidence from Mexico's drug war pp. 253-268

Jason Lindo and María Padilla-Romo

Evaluating the effects of a targeted home visiting program on maternal and child health outcomes pp. 269-283

Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann and Peggy Herrmann

Volume 57, issue C, 2018

Heterogeneity in the impact of type of schooling on adult health and lifestyle pp. 1-14

Anirban Basu, Andrew Jones and Pedro Rosa Dias

Is retirement good for men’s health? Evidence using a change in the retirement age in Israel pp. 15-30

Ori Shai

The effect of smoking on obesity: Evidence from a randomized trial pp. 31-44

Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis and Benjamin Ukert

Your retirement and my health behavior: Evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design pp. 45-59

Tobias Müller and Mujaheed Shaikh

Health care expenditures, age, proximity to death and morbidity: Implications for an ageing population pp. 60-74

Daniel Howdon and Nigel Rice

Does health insurance coverage fall when nonprofit insurers become for-profits? pp. 75-88

Ethan Lieber

Does disease cause vaccination? Disease outbreaks and vaccination response pp. 90-101

Emily Oster

Can technology really help to reduce underage drinking? New evidence on the effects of false ID laws with scanner provisions pp. 102-112

Emily Yiying Zheng

The effect of weight on mental health: New evidence using genetic IVs pp. 113-130

Barton Willage

Managing imperfect competition by pay for performance and reference pricing pp. 131-146

Henry Y. Mak

Returns to specialization: Evidence from the outpatient surgery market pp. 147-167

Elizabeth Munnich and Stephen T. Parente

Decomposition of moral hazard pp. 168-178

John A. Nyman, Cagatay Koc, Bryan E. Dowd, Ellen McCreedy and Helen Markelova Trenz

If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment pp. 179-190

Marlon R. Tracey and Solomon Polachek

The Vaccination Kuznets Curve: Do vaccination rates rise and fall with income? pp. 195-205

Yutaro Sakai

Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street? pp. 206-220

Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

Causes and consequences of teen childbearing: Evidence from a reproductive health intervention in South Africa pp. 221-235

Nicola Branson and Tanya Byker

Unemployment, drugs and attitudes among European youth pp. 236-248

Sara Ayllón and Natalia N. Ferreira-Batista

The benefits of avoiding cancer (or dying from cancer): Evidence from a four- country study pp. 249-262

Anna Alberini and Milan Ščasný

Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives: Competing channels in the relationship between others’ income, health, and happiness pp. 263-276

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee and Carol Graham

Legal access to alcohol and criminality pp. 277-289

Benjamin Hansen and Glen R. Waddell

Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient? pp. 290-314

Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker and Richard Cookson

Income-related health transfers principles and orderings of joint distributions of income and health pp. 315-331

Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

Volume 56, issue C, 2017

Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes pp. 1-18

Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal

Tiered co-payments, pricing, and demand in reference price markets for pharmaceuticals pp. 19-29

Annika Herr and Moritz Suppliet

Does cyberbullying impact youth suicidal behaviors? pp. 30-46

Dimitrios Nikolaou

The hidden costs of terrorism: The effects on health at birth pp. 47-60

Climent Quintana-Domeque and Pedro Ródenas-Serrano

Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data pp. 61-70

Gerard van den Berg, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Stephanie von Hinke, Maarten Lindeboom, Johannes Lissdaniels, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist

Do individuals respond to cost-sharing subsidies in their selections of marketplace health insurance plans? pp. 71-86

Thomas DeLeire, Andre Chappel, Kenneth Finegold and Emily Gee

Concordance of health states in couples: Analysis of self-reported, nurse administered and blood-based biomarker data in the UK Understanding Society panel pp. 87-102

Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

Spillover effect of Japanese long-term care insurance as an employment promotion policy for family caregivers pp. 103-112

Rong Fu, Haruko Noguchi, Akira Kawamura, Hideto Takahashi and Nanako Tamiya

Retirement and cognitive decline. A longitudinal analysis using SHARE data pp. 113-125

Martina Celidoni, Chiara Dal Bianco and Guglielmo Weber

Public health regulation and mortality: Evidence from early 20th century milk laws pp. 126-144

Sarah Komisarow

THE ENGINE AND THE REAPER: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND MORTALITY IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY JAPAN pp. 145-162

John Tang

Healthcare investment and income inequality pp. 163-177

Ayona Bhattacharjee, Jong Shin, Chetan Subramanian and Shailender Swaminathan

The effect of e-cigarette indoor vaping restrictions on adult prenatal smoking and birth outcomes pp. 178-190

Michael T. Cooper and Michael Pesko

Illness-related absence among preschool children: Insights from a health intervention in Swedish preschools pp. 191-200

Caroline Hall and Erica Lindahl

The moral hazard effects of consumer responses to targeted cost-sharing pp. 201-221

Christopher Whaley, Chaoran Guo and Timothy T. Brown

Macroeconomic conditions and opioid abuse pp. 222-233

Alex Hollingsworth, Christopher Ruhm and Kosali Simon

Measuring efficiency of health plan payment systems in managed competition health insurance markets pp. 237-255

Timothy Layton, Randall Ellis, Thomas G. McGuire and Richard van Kleef

Risk adjustment with an outside option pp. 256-258

Joseph Newhouse

Imperfect risk adjustment, risk preferences, and sorting in competitive health insurance markets pp. 259-280

Timothy Layton

Paying Medicare Advantage plans: To level or tilt the playing field pp. 281-291

Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

Medicaid program choice, inertia and adverse selection pp. 292-316

James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz and Jeffery C. Talbert

Supplemental health insurance in the Colombian managed care system: Adverse or advantageous selection? pp. 317-329

David Bardey and Giancarlo Buitrago

Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance: Evidence from Germany pp. 330-351

Adam Pilny, Ansgar Wübker and Nicolas Ziebarth

Demand elasticities and service selection incentives among competing private health plans pp. 352-367

Randall Ellis, Bruno Martins and Wenjia Zhu

Does Part D abet advantageous selection in Medicare Advantage? pp. 368-382

Tony Han and Kurt Lavetti

Insurers’ response to selection risk: Evidence from Medicare enrollment reforms pp. 383-396

Francesco Decarolis and Andrea Guglielmo

Plan responses to diagnosis-based payment: Evidence from Germany’s morbidity-based risk adjustment pp. 397-413

Sebastian Bauhoff, Lisa Fischer, Dirk Göpffarth and Amelie Wuppermann