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 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

Volume 55, issue C, 2017

Reputational concerns with altruistic providers pp. 1-13

Pau Olivella and Luigi Siciliani

Financial risk protection from social health insurance pp. 14-29

Kayleigh Barnes, Arnab Mukherji, Patrick Mullen and Neeraj Sood

Vitamin panacea: Is advertising fueling demand for products with uncertain scientific benefit? pp. 30-44

Matthew D. Eisenberg, Rosemary J. Avery and Jonathan H. Cantor

The spillover effects of health insurance benefit mandates on public insurance coverage: Evidence from veterans pp. 45-60

Xiaoxue Li and Jinqi Ye

The long term effects of “Consumer-Directed” health plans on preventive care use pp. 61-75

Matthew D. Eisenberg, Amelia Haviland, Ateev Mehrotra, Peter J. Huckfeldt and Neeraj Sood

The impact of team-based primary care on health care services utilization and costs: Quebec’s family medicine groups pp. 76-94

Erin Strumpf, Mehdi Ammi, Mamadou Diop, Julie Fiset-Laniel and Pierre Tousignant

Endogenous information, adverse selection, and prevention: Implications for genetic testing policy pp. 95-107

Richard Peter, Andreas Richter and Paul Thistle

Wolves in sheep’s clothing: Is non-profit status used to signal quality? pp. 108-120

Daniel Jones, Carol Propper and Sarah Smith

Discharge on the day of birth, parental response and health and schooling outcomes pp. 121-138

Hans Sievertsen and Miriam Wüst

Econometric modelling of multiple self-reports of health states: The switch from EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L in evaluating drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis pp. 139-152

Mónica Hernández-Alava and Stephen Pudney

Do health insurers innovate? Evidence from the anatomy of physician payments pp. 153-167

Jeffrey Clemens, Joshua Gottlieb and Timea Laura Molnar

Family planning funding cuts and teen childbearing pp. 168-185

Analisa Packham

Is it who you are or where you live? Residential segregation and racial gaps in childhood asthma pp. 186-200

Diane Alexander and Janet Currie

Competitive effects of scope of practice restrictions: Public health or public harm? pp. 201-218

Sara Markowitz, E. Kathleen Adams, Mary Jane Lewitt and Anne L. Dunlop

Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India pp. 219-231

Prakarsh Singh and William Masters

Health care demand elasticities by type of service pp. 232-243

Randall Ellis, Bruno Martins and Wenjia Zhu

The market for paid sick leave pp. 244-261

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Health insurance subsidies and deductible choice: Evidence from regional variation in subsidy schemes pp. 262-273

Cornel Kaufmann, Christian Schmid and Stefan Boes