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 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

Volume 47, issue C, 2016

Tradeoffs in the design of health plan payment systems: Fit, power and balance pp. 1-19

Michael Geruso and Thomas G. McGuire

Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs pp. 20-33

Joseph DiMasi, Henry G. Grabowski and Ronald W. Hansen

Assaults, murders and walkers: The impact of violent crime on physical activity pp. 34-49

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

Health insurance and diversity of treatment pp. 50-63

David Bardey, Bruno Jullien and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

Provider practice style and patient health outcomes: The case of heart attacks pp. 64-80

Janet Currie, W. Bentley Macleod and Jessica Van Parys

Mandate-based health reform and the labor market: Evidence from the Massachusetts reform pp. 81-106

Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

Volume 46, issue C, 2016

Catastrophic medical expenditure risk pp. 1-15

Gabriela Flores and O’Donnell, Owen

Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices pp. 16-32

Kai Liu

Do “Consumer-Directed” health plans bend the cost curve over time? pp. 33-51

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

Effects of Medicaid disease management programs on medical expenditures: Evidence from a natural experiment in Georgia pp. 52-69

Keith Kranker

Does the benefits schedule of cash assistance programs affect the purchase of temptation goods? Evidence from Peru pp. 70-89

Justin S. White and Sanjay Basu

The fatality and morbidity components of the value of statistical life pp. 90-99

Elissa Philip Gentry and W Viscusi

Growth and welfare effects of health care in knowledge-based economies pp. 100-119

Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

Testing for changes in the SES-mortality gradient when the distribution of education changes too pp. 120-130

Thomas Goldring, Fabian Lange and Seth Richards-Shubik

Volume 45, issue C, 2016

Social capital and access to primary health care in developing countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-11

Guillaume Hollard and Omar Sene

Long-term health effects of Vietnam-era military service: A quasi-experiment using Australian conscription lotteries pp. 12-26

David Johnston, Michael Shields and Peter Siminski

Gaining weight through retirement? Results from the SHARE survey pp. 27-46

Mathilde Godard

Habit formation in children: Evidence from incentives for healthy eating pp. 47-54

George Loewenstein, Joseph Price and Kevin Volpp

The effect of parental involvement laws on teen birth control use pp. 55-62

Joseph J. Sabia and D. Mark Anderson

Spousal labor market effects from government health insurance: Evidence from a veterans affairs expansion pp. 63-76

Melissa A. Boyle and Joanna Lahey

Effects of antenatal testing laws on infant mortality pp. 77-90

Winnie Fung and Omar Robles

Time to burn (calories)? The impact of retirement on physical activity among mature Americans pp. 91-102

Fabrice Kampfen and Jürgen Maurer

Employer-sponsored health insurance and the gender wage gap pp. 103-114

Benjamin Cowan and Benjamin Schwab

Patient cost sharing and medical expenditures for the Elderly pp. 115-130

Kazuya Fukushima, Sou Mizuoka, Shunsuke Yamamoto and Toshiaki Iizuka

Genetic markers as instrumental variables pp. 131-148

Stephanie von Hinke, George Davey Smith, Debbie A. Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer

Does home care for dependent elderly people improve their mental health? pp. 149-160

Thomas Barnay and Sandrine Juin

The long-term impacts of Medicaid exposure in early childhood: Evidence from the program's origin pp. 161-175

Michel H. Boudreaux, Ezra Golberstein and Donna D. McAlpine

Trans fat and cardiovascular disease mortality: Evidence from bans in restaurants in New York pp. 176-196

Brandon Restrepo and Matthias Rieger