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 43, issue C, 2015

Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity pp. 1-12

Peter Eibich

What explains DRG upcoding in neonatology? The roles of financial incentives and infant health pp. 13-26

Hendrik Jürges and Juliane Köberlein

Mandatory labels, taxes and market forces: An empirical evaluation of fat policies pp. 27-44

Olivier Allais, Fabrice Etilé and Sébastien Lecocq

Social security income and the utilization of home care: Evidence from the social security notch pp. 45-55

Yuping Tsai

Old boys’ network in general practitioners’ referral behavior? pp. 56-73

Franz Hackl, Michael Hummer and Gerald Pruckner

Heterogeneity and the effect of mental health parity mandates on the labor market pp. 74-84

Martin Andersen

The effects of paid maternity leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance pp. 85-102

Jenna Stearns

Financial incentives for kidney donation: A comparative case study using synthetic controls pp. 103-117

Firat Bilgel and Brian Galle

Hospital sector choice and support for public hospital care in New Zealand: Results from a labeled discrete choice survey pp. 118-127

Paul Brown, Laura Panattoni, Linda Cameron, Stephanie Knox, Toni Ashton, Tim Tenbensel and John Windsor

Immigration policy and birth weight: Positive externalities in Italian law pp. 128-139

Luca Salmasi and Luca Pieroni

Do immigrants improve the health of natives? pp. 140-153

Osea Giuntella and Fabrizio Mazzonna

Financial incentives in health: New evidence from India's Janani Suraksha Yojana pp. 154-169

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Sumit Mazumdar and Anne Mills

Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees pp. 170-189

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization pp. 190-203

Jessamyn Schaller and Ann Stevens

The effect of health insurance on workers’ compensation filing: Evidence from the affordable care act's age-based threshold for dependent coverage pp. 204-228

Marcus Dillender

Estimating sign-dependent societal preferences for quality of life pp. 229-243

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

An economy of scales: A selective review of obesity's economic causes, consequences, and solutions pp. 244-268

John Cawley

Volume 42, issue C, 2015

Information disclosure and peer effects in the use of antibiotics pp. 1-16

Illoong Kwon and Daesung Jun

Recessions, healthy no more? pp. 17-28

Christopher Ruhm

Education and health: The role of cognitive ability pp. 29-43

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis and Justus Veenman

The intensive margin of technology adoption – Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in rural Senegal pp. 44-63

Gunther Bensch and Jörg Peters

The effect of medical marijuana laws on adolescent and adult use of marijuana, alcohol, and other substances pp. 64-80

Hefei Wen, Jason Hockenberry and Janet R. Cummings

The interaction of direct and indirect risk selection pp. 81-89

Normann Lorenz

Environmental regulations on air pollution in China and their impact on infant mortality pp. 90-103

Shinsuke Tanaka

How do health insurer market concentration and bargaining power with hospitals affect health insurance premiums? pp. 104-114

Erin Trish and Bradley Herring

Does women's education affect breast cancer risk and survival? Evidence from a population based social experiment in education pp. 115-124

Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain pp. 125-138

Bernard Fortin and Myra Yazbeck

Unintended effects of reimbursement schedules in mental health care pp. 139-150

Rudy Douven, Minke Remmerswaal and Ilaria Mosca

Health and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Zambia pp. 151-164

Günther Fink and Felix Masiye

Welfare implications of learning through solicitation versus diversification in health care pp. 165-173

Anirban Basu

Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health pp. 174-185

Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal

Tobacco control campaign in Uruguay: Impact on smoking cessation during pregnancy and birth weight pp. 186-196

Jeffrey E. Harris, Ana Balsa and Patricia Triunfo

Financing and funding health care: Optimal policy and political implementability pp. 197-208

Robert Nuscheler and Kerstin Roeder

Volume 41, issue C, 2015

Did the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate increase premiums? pp. 1-14

Briggs Depew and James Bailey

Investigating recent trends in the U.S. teen birth rate pp. 15-29

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip Levine

Where have all the young men gone? Using sex ratios to measure fetal death rates pp. 30-45

Nicholas Sanders and Charles Stoecker

Does prescription drug coverage improve mental health? Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 46-58

Padmaja Ayyagari and Dan M. Shane

The price elasticity of demand for heroin: Matched longitudinal and experimental evidence pp. 59-71

Todd A. Olmstead, Sheila M. Alessi, Brendan Kline, Rosalie Pacula and Nancy M. Petry

Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities for elective treatment? Evidence from Scotland pp. 72-88

Silviya Nikolova, Arthur Sinko and Matt Sutton

Optimal health insurance for multiple goods and time periods pp. 89-106

Randall Ellis, Shenyi Jiang and Willard Manning

Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages pp. 107-116

Justin Cook and Jason Fletcher

Fear itself: The effects of distressing economic news on birth outcomes pp. 117-132

Kyle Carlson

Staffing subsidies and the quality of care in nursing homes pp. 133-147

Andrew Foster and Yong Suk Lee

Volume 40, issue C, 2015

Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda pp. 1-9

Damien de Walque, Paul Gertler, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Ada Kwan, Christel Vermeersch, Jean de Dieu Bizimana, Agnès Binagwaho and Jeanine Condo

Public health insurance and disparate eligibility of spouses: The Medicare eligibility gap pp. 10-25

Allison Witman

The heterogeneity of concentrated prescribing behavior: Theory and evidence from antipsychotics pp. 26-39

Ernst R. Berndt, Robert Gibbons, Anton Kolotilin and Anna Levine Taub

Hungry today, unhappy tomorrow? Childhood hunger and subjective wellbeing later in life pp. 40-53

Marco Bertoni

Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults pp. 54-68

Silvia Barbaresco, Charles Courtemanche and Yanling Qi

Medicaid expansions for the working age disabled: Revisiting the crowd-out of private health insurance pp. 69-82

Kathryn Wagner

Aggregation and the estimated effects of economic conditions on health pp. 83-96

Jason Lindo

Physician responses to rising local unemployment rates: Healthcare provision to Medicare and privately insured patients pp. 97-108

Daifeng He, Melissa McInerney and Jennifer Mellor

Who joins the network? Physicians’ resistance to take budgetary co-responsibility pp. 109-121

Maurus Rischatsch

Long-term care insurance: Does experience matter? pp. 122-131

Norma Coe, Meghan Skira and Courtney Van Houtven

Allergy test: Seasonal allergens and performance in school pp. 132-140

Dave Marcotte

The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality pp. 141-158

Gerard van den Berg and Sumedha Gupta