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 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

Volume 39, issue C, 2015

Racial segregation and quality of care disparity in US nursing homes pp. 1-16

Momotazur Rahman and Andrew Foster

Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes pp. 17-30

Robert S. Scholte, Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom

Civil conflict, gender-specific fetal loss, and selection: A new test of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis pp. 31-50

Christine Valente

Can health-insurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan pp. 51-59

Andreas Landmann and Markus Frölich

Risk perceptions and smoking decisions of adult Chinese men pp. 60-73

Wanchuan Lin and Frank Sloan

Willingness to pay for public health policies to treat illnesses pp. 74-88

Ryan Bosworth, Trudy Cameron and J.R. DeShazo

Physician payments under health care reform pp. 89-105

Abe Dunn and Adam Shapiro

Micro-marketing healthier choices: Effects of personalized ordering suggestions on restaurant purchases pp. 106-122

Kelly Bedard and Peter Kuhn

The effect of state dependent mandate laws on the labor supply decisions of young adults pp. 123-134

Briggs Depew

The behavioralist as nutritionist: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve child food choice and consumption pp. 135-146

John List and Anya Samek

Inequity in long-term care use and unmet need: Two sides of the same coin pp. 147-158

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Juan Oliva

Competition, gatekeeping, and health care access pp. 159-170

Geir Godager, Tor Iversen and Ching-to Ma

Access to health insurance and the use of inpatient medical care: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act young adult mandate pp. 171-187

Yaa Akosa Antwi, Asako S. Moriya and Kosali I. Simon

Economic assessment of nutritional recommendations pp. 188-210

Xavier Irz, Pascal Leroy, Vincent Réquillart and Louis-Georges Soler

Alone but better off? Adult child migration and health of elderly parents in Moldova pp. 211-227

Marcus Böhme, Ruth Persian and Tobias Stöhr

Employer contribution and premium growth in health insurance pp. 228-247

Yiyan Liu and Ginger Zhe Jin

Pro-cyclical mortality across socioeconomic groups and health status pp. 248-258

Venke Furre Haaland and Kjetil Telle

Does seeing the doctor more often keep you out of the hospital? pp. 259-272

Robert Kaestner and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

The impact of tort reform on intensity of treatment: Evidence from heart patients pp. 273-288

Ronen Avraham and Max Schanzenbach

Can Caesarean section improve child and maternal health? The case of breech babies pp. 289-302

Vibeke Jensen and Miriam Wüst

Volume 38, issue C, 2014

Price regulation and relative delays in generic drug adoption pp. 1-9

Joan Costa-Font, Alistair McGuire and Nebibe Varol

Elimination and selection by aspects in health choice experiments: Prioritising health service innovations pp. 10-22

Seda Erdem, Danny Campbell and Carl Thompson

Air pollution, avoidance behaviour and children's respiratory health: Evidence from England pp. 23-42

Katharina Janke

The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use pp. 43-61

Yu-Wei Chu

Who pays for public employee health costs? pp. 65-76

Jeffrey Clemens and David M. Cutler

Compensating wage differentials and the impact of health insurance in the public sector on wages and hours pp. 77-87

Paige Qin and Michael Chernew

Retiree health insurance for public school employees: Does it affect retirement? pp. 88-98

Maria Fitzpatrick

The role of retiree health insurance in the early retirement of public sector employees pp. 99-108

John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

How does retiree health insurance influence public sector employee saving? pp. 109-118

Robert L. Clark and Olivia Mitchell

The effects of retiree health insurance plan characteristics on retirees’ choice and employers’ costs pp. 119-129

Robert L. Clark, Melinda Morrill and David Vanderweide

The fiscal stress arising from state and local retiree health obligations pp. 130-146

Byron Lutz and Louise Sheiner

Active and retired public employees’ health insurance: Potential data sources pp. 147-152

Melinda Morrill