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 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

Volume 49, issue C, 2016

You sneeze, you lose pp. 1-13

Simon Bensnes

The tax-free year in Iceland: A natural experiment to explore the impact of a short-term increase in labor supply on the risk of heart attacks pp. 14-27

Thorhildur Ólafsdóttir, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson and Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir

The anticipatory effects of Medicare Part D on drug utilization pp. 28-45

Abby Alpert

Shock, but no shift: Hospitals' responses to changes in patient insurance mix pp. 46-58

Kathryn Wagner

Quantile treatment effects of job loss on health pp. 59-69

Valentin Schiele and Hendrik Schmitz

Donor registries, first-person consent legislation, and the supply of deceased organ donors pp. 70-75

Kevin Callison and Adelin Levin

Life cycle responses to health insurance status pp. 76-96

Florian Pelgrin and Pascal St-Amour

Decision rules for allocation of finances to health systems strengthening pp. 97-108

Alec Morton, Ranjeeta Thomas and Peter C. Smith

Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden pp. 109-119

Mats A. Bergman, Per Johansson, Sofia Lundberg and Giancarlo Spagnolo

Cost savings of developmental screenings: Evidence from a nationwide program pp. 120-135

Martin Halla, Gerald Pruckner and Thomas Schober

Competition, information, and quality: Evidence from nursing homes pp. 136-152

Xin Zhao

Risk selection and heterogeneous preferences in health insurance markets with a public option pp. 153-168

Maria Polyakova

GPs' implicit prioritization through clinical choices – evidence from three national health services pp. 169-183

Julie Riise, Arne Hole, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen and Diane Skåtun

The value of mortality risk reductions. Pure altruism – a confounder? pp. 184-192

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Trine Kjær and Jytte Seested Nielsen

Can increased primary care access reduce demand for emergency care? Evidence from England's 7-day GP opening pp. 193-208

Peter Dolton and Vikram Pathania

Volume 48, issue C, 2016

Cost versus control: Understanding ownership through outsourcing in hospitals pp. 1-15

Christina Dalton and Patrick Warren

Why has under-5 mortality decreased at such different rates in different countries? pp. 16-25

Dean T. Jamison, Shane M. Murphy and Martin E. Sandbu

Job mobility among parents of children with chronic health conditions: Early effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act pp. 26-43

Pinka Chatterji, Peter Brandon and Sara Markowitz

Improving efficiency or impairing access? Health care consolidation and quality of care: Evidence from emergency hospital closures in Sweden pp. 44-60

Daniel Avdic

The impact of financing of screening tests on utilization and outcomes: The case of amniocentesis pp. 61-73

Ity Shurtz, Amnon Brzezinski and Ayala Frumkin

Health insurance and the demand for medical care: Instrumental variable estimates using health insurer claims data pp. 74-88

Abe Dunn

A general method for decomposing the causes of socioeconomic inequality in health pp. 89-106

Gawain Heckley, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Gustav Kjellsson

How to sell a condom? The impact of demand creation tools on male and female condom sales in resource limited settings pp. 107-120

Fern Terris-Prestholt and Frank Windmeijer

An elicitation of utility for quality of life under prospect theory pp. 121-134

Arthur Attema, Werner Brouwer, l’Haridon, Olivier and Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades

Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India pp. 135-148

Jeffrey Hammer and Dean Spears

Solving shortage in a priceless market: Insights from blood donation pp. 149-165

Tianshu Sun, Susan Feng Lu and Ginger Zhe Jin