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 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

Volume 37, issue C, 2014

The effect of Medicaid premiums on enrollment: A regression discontinuity approach pp. 1-12

Laura Dague

Revisiting the relationship between nurse staffing and quality of care in nursing homes: An instrumental variables approach pp. 13-24

Haizhen Lin

Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes pp. 25-40

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

Family investment responses to childhood health conditions: Intrafamily allocation of resources pp. 41-57

Maria Rosales-Rueda

Do stimulant medications improve educational and behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD? pp. 58-69

Janet Currie, Mark Stabile and Lauren Jones

The nature of surgeon human capital depreciation pp. 70-80

Jason Hockenberry and Lorens A. Helmchen

Hips and hearts: The variation in incentive effects of insurance across hospital procedures pp. 81-97

Denise Doiron, Denzil Fiebig and Agne Suziedelyte

The heterogeneous effects of HIV testing pp. 98-112

Sarah Baird, Erick Gong, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

The welfare value of FDA's mercury-in-fish advisory: A dynamic reanalysis pp. 113-122

Christoph Rheinberger and James Hammitt

Bargaining for health: A case study of a collective agreement-based health program for manual workers pp. 123-136

Morten Saaby and Jacob Arendt

Consequences of ADHD medication use for children's outcomes pp. 137-151

Søren Dalsgaard, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

Does in utero exposure to Illness matter? The 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment pp. 152-163

Ming-Jen Lin and Elaine Liu

Foreign nurse importation and the supply of native nurses pp. 164-180

Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

HIV, wages, and the skill premium pp. 181-197

Ioana Marinescu

Do hospitals cross-subsidize? pp. 198-218

Guy David, Richard Lindrooth, Lorens A. Helmchen and Lawton R. Burns

Air pollution and infant mortality: A natural experiment from power plant desulfurization pp. 219-231

Simon Luechinger

The importance of parental knowledge: Evidence from weight report cards in Mexico pp. 232-247

Silvia Prina and Heather Royer

Volume 36, issue C, 2014

The impact of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic on economic performance in Sweden pp. 1-19

Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Stefan Pichler

Does liberalizing cannabis laws increase cannabis use? pp. 20-32

Jenny Williams and Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen

Can technology help to reduce underage drinking? Evidence from the false ID laws with scanner provision pp. 33-46

Barış Yörük

A tale of two cities? The heterogeneous impact of medicaid managed care pp. 47-68

James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz and Jeffery C. Talbert

The effect of relationship status on health with dynamic health and persistent relationships pp. 69-83

Jennifer L. Kohn and Susan Averett

Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage pp. 84-97

Marcus Dillender

Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival pp. 98-111

Jon Fiva, Torbjørn Hægeland, Marte Rønning and Astri Syse

Physician payment mechanisms, hospital length of stay and risk of readmission: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 112-124

Damien Échevin and Bernard Fortin

Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies pp. 125-136

Per Johansson, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Jouko Verho

The causal effect of family income on child health in the UK pp. 137-150

Daniel Kuehnle

Are investments in disease prevention complements? The case of statins and health behaviors pp. 151-163

Robert Kaestner, Michael Darden and Darius Lakdawalla

Aversion to health inequalities in healthcare prioritisation: A multicriteria optimisation perspective pp. 164-173

Alec Morton

Regulation of pharmaceutical prices: Evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark pp. 174-187

Ulrich Kaiser, Susan Mendez, Thomas Rønde and Hannes Ullrich