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 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

Volume 50, issue C, 2016

The effect of hospital/physician integration on hospital choice pp. 1-8

Laurence C. Baker, M. Kate Bundorf and Daniel P. Kessler

Non-monotonic health behaviours – implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework pp. 9-26

Kristian Bolin and Björn Lindgren

Including health insurance in poverty measurement: The impact of Massachusetts health reform on poverty pp. 27-35

Sanders D. Korenman and Dahlia K. Remler

Do hospital-owned skilled nursing facilities provide better post-acute care quality? pp. 36-46

Momotazur Rahman, Edward Norton and David C. Grabowski

Eliminating composite bias in treatment effects estimates: Applications to quality of life assessment pp. 47-58

Ian McCarthy

Quality rating and private-prices: Evidence from the nursing home industry pp. 59-70

Sean Shenghsiu Huang and Richard A. Hirth

How product standardization affects choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange pp. 71-85

Keith Ericson and Amanda Starc

The effect of narrow provider networks on health care use pp. 86-98

Alicia Atwood and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

The effect of college education on mortality pp. 99-114

Kasey Buckles, Andreas Hagemann, Ofer Malamud, Melinda Morrill and Abigail Wozniak

Asymmetric information and user orientation in general practice: Exploring the agency relationship in a best–worst scaling study pp. 115-130

Line Pedersen, Stephane Hess and Trine Kjær

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act evaluation study: Impact on specialty behavioral health utilization and expenditures among “carve-out” enrollees pp. 131-143

Susan L. Ettner, Jessica M. Harwood, Amber Thalmayer, Michael K. Ong, Haiyong Xu, Michael J. Bresolin, Kenneth B. Wells, Chi-Hong Tseng and Francisca Azocar

Does the extension of primary care practice opening hours reduce the use of emergency services? pp. 144-155

Matteo Lippi Bruni, Irene Mammi and Cristina Ugolini

Health shocks and risk aversion pp. 156-170

Simon Decker and Hendrik Schmitz

Doctor–patient differences in risk and time preferences: A field experiment pp. 171-182

Matteo Galizzi, Marisa Miraldo, Charitini Stavropoulou and Marjon van der Pol

Do working conditions at older ages shape the health gradient? pp. 183-197

Lauren L. Schmitz

A soft pillow for hard times? Economic insecurity, food intake and body weight in Russia pp. 198-212

Matthias Staudigel

Incentives and children's dietary choices: A field experiment in primary schools pp. 213-229

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James and Patrick Nolen

Choice of hospital: Which type of quality matters? pp. 230-246

Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Giuseppe Moscelli and Hugh Gravelle

The value of disease prevention vs treatment pp. 247-255

Christoph Rheinberger, Daniel Herrera-Araujo and James Hammitt

Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes pp. 258-267

Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão and Kerstin Roeder

Quality standards versus nutritional taxes: Health and welfare impacts with strategic firms pp. 268-285

Vincent Réquillart, Louis-Georges Soler and Yu Zang

Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation pp. 286-297

Paula González, Ines Macho-Stadler and David Perez-Castrillo

Late-stage pharmaceutical R&D and pricing policies under two-stage regulation pp. 298-311

Sebastian Jobjörnsson, Martin Forster, Paolo Pertile and Carl-Fredrik Burman

Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry pp. 312-329

Kurt Brekke, Chiara Canta and Odd Rune Straume

The design of long term care insurance contracts pp. 330-339

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Pierre Pestieau

Long-term care and births timing pp. 340-357

Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere

Competition and screening with motivated health professionals pp. 358-371

Francesca Barigozzi and Nadia Burani

Patient mobility and health care quality when regions and patients differ in income pp. 372-387

Kurt Brekke, Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume