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 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

Volume 54, issue C, 2017

Why does the health of Mexican immigrants deteriorate? New evidence from linked birth records pp. 1-16

Osea Giuntella

Bans on electronic cigarette sales to minors and smoking among high school students pp. 17-24

Rahi Abouk and Scott Adams

Uncovering waste in US healthcare pp. 25-39

Joseph J. Doyle, John A. Graves and Jonathan Gruber

Health shocks and their long-lasting impact on health behaviors: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Mexico pp. 40-55

Jorge Agüero and Trinidad Beleche

Promoting innovation in small markets: Evidence from the market for rare and intractable diseases pp. 56-65

Toshiaki Iizuka and Gyo Uchida

Retirement blues pp. 66-78

Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

The gender gap in mortality: How much is explained by behavior? pp. 79-90

Johannes Schünemann, Holger Strulik and Timo Trimborn

Solving the kidney shortage via the creation of kidney donation co-operatives pp. 91-97

K.C. Eames, Patrick Holder and Eduardo Zambrano

On the road to recovery: Gasoline content regulations and child health pp. 98-123

Michelle Marcus

Justification bias in self-reported disability: New evidence from panel data pp. 124-134

Nicole Black, David Johnston and Agne Suziedelyte

The effect of spending cuts on teen pregnancy pp. 135-146

David Paton and Liam Wright

The health consequences of aerial spraying illicit crops: The case of Colombia pp. 147-160

Adriana Camacho and Daniel Mejía

Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate? pp. 161-175

Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass and Brian Ferguson

Volume 53, issue C, 2017

Medicaid, family spending, and the financial implications of crowd-out pp. 1-16

Marcus Dillender

Did Medicare Part D reduce mortality? pp. 17-37

Jason Huh and Julian Reif

Mitigating the consequences of a health condition: The role of intra- and interhousehold assistance pp. 38-52

Michael Dalton and Daniel LaFave

The effect of prices on nutrition: Comparing the impact of product- and nutrient-specific taxes pp. 53-71

Matthew Harding and Michael Lovenheim

Premium subsidies, the mandate, and Medicaid expansion: Coverage effects of the Affordable Care Act pp. 72-86

Molly Frean, Jonathan Gruber and Benjamin D. Sommers

Safety regulation in professional football: Empirical evidence of intended and unintended consequences pp. 87-99

Andrew Hanson, Nicholas Jolly and Jeremy Peterson

When public health intervention is not successful: Cost sharing, crowd-out, and selection in Korea's National Cancer Screening Program pp. 100-116

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Sun-mi Lee

War during childhood: The long run effects of warfare on health pp. 117-130

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

Effects of posted point-of-sale warnings on alcohol consumption during pregnancy and on birth outcomes pp. 131-155

Gulcan Cil

Volume 52, issue C, 2017

Health and work in the family: Evidence from spouses’ cancer diagnoses pp. 1-18

Sung-Hee Jeon and R. Vincent Pohl

How vertical integration affects the quantity and cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries pp. 19-32

Thomas G. Koch, Brett W. Wendling and Nathan Wilson

Employment effects of active labor market programs for sick-listed workers pp. 33-44

Anders Holm, Jan Høgelund, Mette Gørtz, Kristin Storck Rasmussen and Helle Sofie Bøje Houlberg

Effectiveness of vaccination recommendations versus mandates: Evidence from the hepatitis A vaccine pp. 45-62

Emily C. Lawler

Economic conditions, illicit drug use, and substance use disorders in the United States pp. 63-73

Christopher S. Carpenter, Chandler McClellan and Daniel I. Rees

Do hospital mergers reduce costs? pp. 74-94

Matt Schmitt

Volume 51, issue C, 2017

The role of imperfect surrogate endpoint information in drug approval and reimbursement decisions pp. 1-12

Katalin Bognar, John Romley, Jay P. Bae, James Murray, Jacquelyn W. Chou and Darius Lakdawalla

Claims-shifting: The problem of parallel reimbursement regimes pp. 13-25

Olesya Fomenko and Jonathan Gruber

The long-term health impacts of Medicaid and CHIP pp. 26-40

Owen Thompson

Non-separable time preferences, novelty consumption and body weight: Theory and evidence from the East German transition to capitalism pp. 41-65

Davide Dragone and Nicolas Ziebarth

Effects of payment reform in more versus less competitive markets pp. 66-83

Neeraj Sood, Abby Alpert, Kayleigh Barnes, Peter Huckfeldt and José J. Escarce

Damage caps and defensive medicine, revisited pp. 84-97

Myungho Paik, Bernard Black and David A. Hyman

Dropped out or pushed out? Insurance market exit and provider market power in Medicare Advantage pp. 98-112

Daria Pelech