Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2025

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Volume 35, issue C, 2014

The child health implications of privatizing africa's urban water supply pp. 1-19

Katrina Kosec

International migration and the propagation of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 20-33

Frédéric Docquier, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis and D. Tamfutu Munsi

Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget: A study of the recall period length in health care survey questions pp. 34-46

Gustav Kjellsson, Philip Clarke and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Assessing incentives for service-level selection in private health insurance exchanges pp. 47-63

Thomas G. McGuire, Joseph Newhouse, Sharon-Lise Normand, Julie Shi and Samuel Zuvekas

The behavioral economics of drunk driving pp. 64-81

Frank Sloan, Lindsey M. Eldred and Yanzhi Xu

The social value of mortality risk reduction: VSL versus the social welfare function approach pp. 82-93

Matthew D. Adler, James Hammitt and Nicolas Treich

Parental health and child schooling pp. 94-108

Massimiliano Bratti and Mariapia Mendola

Keep it simple? Predicting primary health care costs with clinical morbidity measures pp. 109-122

Samuel L. Brilleman, Hugh Gravelle, Sandra Hollinghurst, Sarah Purdy, Chris Salisbury and Frank Windmeijer

Well-being losses due to care-giving pp. 123-131

Bernard van den Berg, Denzil Fiebig and Jane Hall

Genetic mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of health pp. 132-146

Owen Thompson

Preventing dengue through mobile phones: Evidence from a field experiment in Peru pp. 147-161

Ana Dammert, Jose Galdo and Virgilio Galdo

Supplier-induced demand for newborn treatment: Evidence from Japan pp. 162-178

Hitoshi Shigeoka and Kiyohide Fushimi

Plan choice, health insurance cost and premium sharing pp. 179-188

Vasilios Kosteas and Francesco Renna

Did liberalising bar hours decrease traffic accidents? pp. 189-198

Colin Green, John Heywood and María Navarro Paniagua

Volume 34, issue C, 2014

Effects of Medicare payment reform: Evidence from the home health interim and prospective payment systems pp. 1-18

Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood, José J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski and Joseph Newhouse

The effects of health information technology on the costs and quality of medical care pp. 19-30

Leila Agha

Managing genetic tests, surveillance, and preventive medicine under a public health insurance system pp. 31-41

Lilia Filipova-Neumann and Michael Hoy

Competition and the impact of online hospital report cards pp. 42-58

Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily, Suhui Li and Yi Lu

Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden pp. 59-72

Lisa Laun and Peter Skogman Thoursie

The impact of competition on quality and prices in the English care homes market pp. 73-83

Julien Forder and Stephen Allan

Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information pp. 84-95

Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

Estimation of own and cross price elasticities of alcohol demand in the UK—A pseudo-panel approach using the Living Costs and Food Survey 2001–2009 pp. 96-103

Yang Meng, Alan Brennan, Robin Purshouse, Daniel Hill-McManus, Colin Angus, John Holmes and Petra Sylvia Meier

The role of GP's compensation schemes in diabetes care: Evidence from panel data pp. 104-120

Elisa Iezzi, Matteo Lippi Bruni and Cristina Ugolini

Tax incentives and the demand for private health insurance pp. 121-130

Olena Stavrunova and Oleg Yerokhin

Effects of occupational regulations on the cost of dental services: Evidence from dental insurance claims pp. 131-143

Coady Wing and Allison Marier

Volume 33, issue C, 2014

How does provider supply and regulation influence health care markets? Evidence from nurse practitioners and physician assistants pp. 1-27

Kevin Stange

Health information exchange, system size and information silos pp. 28-42

Amalia Miller and Catherine Tucker

Removing financial barriers to organ and bone marrow donation: The effect of leave and tax legislation in the U.S pp. 43-56

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Sarah Stith

The impact of patient cost-sharing on low-income populations: Evidence from Massachusetts pp. 57-66

Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight

Publication selection and the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life pp. 67-75

Chris Doucouliagos, T. Stanley and W Viscusi

In utero exposure to the Korean War and its long-term effects on socioeconomic and health outcomes pp. 76-93

Chulhee Lee

Nurses’ labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins pp. 94-112

Barbara Hanel, Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott

A mass phenomenon: The social evolution of obesity pp. 113-125

Holger Strulik

Peer effects on risky behaviors: New evidence from college roommate assignments pp. 126-138

Daniel Eisenberg, Ezra Golberstein and Janis L. Whitlock

What a difference a day makes: Quantifying the effects of birth timing manipulation on infant health pp. 139-158

Lisa Schulkind and Teny Shapiro

Measuring the effects of reducing subsidies for private insurance on public expenditure for health care pp. 159-179

Terence Chai Cheng

Estimating the price elasticity of beer: Meta-analysis of data with heterogeneity, dependence, and publication bias pp. 180-187

Jon Nelson

Volume 32, issue 6, 2013

The long-term cognitive consequences of early childhood malnutrition: The case of famine in Ghana pp. 1013-1027

Samuel K. Ampaabeng and Chih Ming Tan

Effects of breast and colorectal cancer on labour market outcomes—Average effects and educational gradients pp. 1028-1042

Eskil Heinesen and Christophe Kolodziejczyk

Does health insurance improve health? pp. 1043-1056

Günther Fink, Paul Jacob Robyn, Ali Sié and Rainer Sauerborn

Prospect theory in the health domain: A quantitative assessment pp. 1057-1065

Arthur Attema, Werner Brouwer and l’Haridon, Olivier

Useful beautiful minds—An analysis of the relationship between schizophrenia and employment pp. 1066-1076

Jane Greve and Louise Herrup Nielsen

Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations pp. 1077-1089

David Johnston, Stefanie Schurer and Michael Shields

Recession depression: Mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash pp. 1090-1104

Melissa McInerney, Jennifer Mellor and Lauren Nicholas

Profit or patients’ health benefit? Exploring the heterogeneity in physician altruism pp. 1105-1116

Geir Godager and Daniel Wiesen

Increasing organ donation via changes in the default choice or allocation rule pp. 1117-1129

Danyang Li, Zackary Hawley and Kurt Schnier

Excise tax avoidance: The case of state cigarette taxes pp. 1130-1141

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Feng Liu

Life expectancy and human capital: Evidence from the international epidemiological transition pp. 1142-1152

Casper Hansen

Geographic variation in commercial medical-care expenditures: A framework for decomposing price and utilization pp. 1153-1165

Abe Dunn, Adam Shapiro and Eli Liebman

The use of alternative preference elicitation methods in complex discrete choice experiments pp. 1166-1179

Hong Il Yoo and Denise Doiron

Financial protection of patients through compensation of providers: The impact of Health Equity Funds in Cambodia pp. 1180-1193

Gabriela Flores, Por Ir, Chean R. Men, O’Donnell, Owen and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Exploiting subjective information to understand impoverished children's use of health care pp. 1194-1204

Begoña Álvarez and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

The impact of the partnership long-term care insurance program on private coverage pp. 1205-1213

Haizhen Lin and Jeffrey Prince

Rising inequalities in income and health in China: Who is left behind? pp. 1214-1229

Steef Baeten, Tom Van Ourti and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The changing of the guards pp. 1230-1239

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed and Ole Rogeberg

Practice budgets and the patient mix of physicians – The effect of a remuneration system reform on health care utilisation pp. 1240-1249

Hendrik Schmitz

Testing the rate of preference reversal in personal and social decision-making pp. 1250-1257

Adam Oliver

Integrating risk adjustment and enrollee premiums in health plan payment pp. 1263-1277

Thomas G. McGuire, Jacob Glazer, Joseph Newhouse, Sharon-Lise Normand, Julie Shi, Anna D. Sinaiko and Samuel H. Zuvekas

Do Medicare Advantage plans select enrollees in higher margin clinical categories? pp. 1278-1288

Joseph Newhouse, J. Michael McWilliams, Mary Price, Jie Huang, Bruce Fireman and John Hsu

The spillover effects of Medicare managed care: Medicare Advantage and hospital utilization pp. 1289-1300

Katherine Baicker, Michael E. Chernew and Jacob Robbins

Competitive bidding in Medicare Advantage: Effect of benchmark changes on plan bids pp. 1301-1312

Zirui Song, Mary Beth Landrum and Michael E. Chernew

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: Hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D pp. 1313-1324

Iris Kesternich, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden and Joachim Winter

Plan selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative data pp. 1325-1344

Florian Heiss, Adam Leive, Daniel McFadden and Joachim Winter

Digesting the doughnut hole pp. 1345-1355

Geoffrey Joyce, Julie Zissimopoulos and Dana Goldman

Pharmaceutical advertising and Medicare Part D pp. 1356-1367

Darius Lakdawalla, Neeraj Sood and Qian Gu

Volume 32, issue 5, 2013

Preference heterogeneity and selection in private health insurance: The case of Australia pp. 757-767

Thomas Buchmueller, Denzil Fiebig, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage

Genetic testing with primary prevention and moral hazard pp. 768-779

David Bardey and Philippe De Donder

The demand for health insurance among uninsured Americans: Results of a survey experiment and implications for policy pp. 780-793

Alan Krueger and Ilyana Kuziemko

A case study of a workplace wellness program that offers financial incentives for weight loss pp. 794-803

John Cawley and Joshua Price

Abortion before & after Roe pp. 804-815

Ted Joyce, Ruoding Tan and Yuxiu Zhang

The poverty-reducing effect of Medicaid pp. 816-832

Benjamin D. Sommers and Donald Oellerich

Does employer-provided health insurance constrain labor supply adjustments to health shocks? New evidence on women diagnosed with breast cancer pp. 833-849

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark and Scott Barkowski

Consumers’ misunderstanding of health insurance pp. 850-862

George Loewenstein, Joelle Y. Friedman, Barbara McGill, Sarah Ahmad, Suzanne Linck, Stacey Sinkula, John Beshears, James Choi, Jonathan Kolstad, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, John List and Kevin G. Volpp

Girls’ education and HIV risk: Evidence from Uganda pp. 863-872

Marcella Alsan and David M. Cutler

Do parental involvement laws deter risky teen sex? pp. 873-880

Silvie Colman, Thomas Dee and Ted Joyce

Do cost-sharing and entry deregulation curb pharmaceutical innovation? pp. 881-894

Volker Grossmann

Doctors, patients and the racial mortality gap pp. 895-908

Emilia Simeonova

Hospital readmission rates: Signal of failure or success? pp. 909-921

Mauro Laudicella, Paolo Li Donni and Peter C. Smith

Longitudinal methods to investigate the role of health determinants in the dynamics of income-related health inequality pp. 922-937

Paul Allanson and Dennis Petrie

Informality and the expansion of social protection programs: Evidence from Mexico pp. 938-950

Oliver Azuara and Ioana Marinescu

The health effects of leaving school in a bad economy pp. 951-964

Johanna Maclean

The effect of prospective payment on admission and treatment policy: Evidence from inpatient rehabilitation facilities pp. 965-979

Neeraj Sood, Peter J. Huckfeldt, David C. Grabowski, Joseph Newhouse and José J. Escarce

An instrumental variables approach to post-acute care nursing home quality: Is there a dime's worth of evidence that continuing care retirement communities provide higher quality? pp. 980-996

John Bowblis and Heather S. McHone

Does HIV increase the risk of spousal violence in sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 997-1006

Yoo-Mi Chin

Volume 32, issue 4, 2013

Health-related externalities: Evidence from a choice experiment pp. 671-681

Jeremiah Hurley and Emmanouil Mentzakis

Demand for smokeless tobacco: Role of advertising pp. 682-697

Dhaval Dave and Henry Saffer

The effects of medical school on health outcomes: Evidence from admission lotteries pp. 698-707

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Inge de Wolf

Sick but satisfied: The impact of life and health satisfaction on choice between health scenarios pp. 708-714

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos and Aki Tsuchiya

Family income and child health in the UK pp. 715-727

Bénédicte Apouey and Pierre Geoffard

Maternal employment and childhood obesity – A European perspective pp. 728-742

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Wolfgang Ahrens, Gabriele Eiben, Juan M. Fernandéz-Alvira, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Stefaan De Henauw, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Toomas Veidebaum, Garrath Williams and Karin Bammann

The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children pp. 743-755

John Cawley, David Frisvold and Chad Meyerhoefer

Volume 32, issue 3, 2013

Weathering the storm: Hurricanes and birth outcomes pp. 487-503

Janet Currie and Maya Rossin-Slater

Feasible methods to estimate disease based price indexes pp. 504-514

Ralph Bradley

A new axiomatic approach to the evaluation of population health pp. 515-523

Jens Hougaard, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Lars Peter Østerdal

Cannabis use and suicidal ideation pp. 524-537

Jan C. van Ours, Jenny Williams, David Fergusson and L. John Horwood

School meal crowd out in the 1980s pp. 538-545

Stephanie von Hinke

The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany pp. 546-558

Jan Marcus

Treatment decisions under ambiguity pp. 559-569

Loïc Berger, Han Bleichrodt and Louis Eeckhoudt

Health consequences of easier access to alcohol: New Zealand evidence pp. 570-585

Emily Conover and Dean Scrimgeour

Does retirement age impact mortality? pp. 586-598

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Ola Vestad

Using RD design to understand heterogeneity in health insurance crowd-out pp. 599-611

Thomas G. Koch

Malaria: An early indicator of later disease and work level pp. 612-632

Sok Chul Hong

Does hospital ownership affect patient experience? An investigation into public–private sector differences in England pp. 633-646

Virginie Pérotin, Bernarda Zamora Talaya, Rachel Reeves, Will Bartlett and Pauline Allen

Does widowhood explain gender differences in out-of-pocket medical spending among the elderly? pp. 647-658

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

On correcting the concentration index for binary variables pp. 659-670

Gustav Kjellsson and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Volume 32, issue 2, 2013

The impact of medical errors on physician behavior: Evidence from malpractice litigation pp. 331-340

Ity Shurtz

Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting pp. 341-352

R. Tamara Konetzka, Daniel Polsky and Rachel M. Werner

Reducing underage alcohol and tobacco use: Evidence from the introduction of vertical identification cards pp. 353-366

Andriana Bellou and Rachana Bhatt

Does information on health status lead to a healthier lifestyle? Evidence from China on the effect of hypertension diagnosis on food consumption pp. 367-385

Meng Zhao, Yoshifumi Konishi and Paul Glewwe

Does the U.S. health care sector suffer from Baumol's cost disease? Evidence from the 50 states pp. 386-391

Laurie J. Bates and Rexford Santerre

Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives? pp. 392-409

Leif Andreassen, Maria Di Tommaso and Steinar Strøm

Does hospital competition harm equity? Evidence from the English National Health Service pp. 410-422

Richard Cookson, Mauro Laudicella and Paolo Li Donni

Modeling the relationship between health and health care expenditures using a latent Markov model pp. 423-439

Bram Wouterse, Martijn Huisman, Bert R. Meijboom, Dorly J.H. Deeg and Johan J. Polder

Economic considerations for social distancing and behavioral based policies during an epidemic pp. 440-451

Eli P. Fenichel

The effect of Medicaid physician fees on take-up of public health insurance among children in poverty pp. 452-462

Youjin Hahn

Making Medicare advantage a middle-class program pp. 463-473

Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

The impact of minimum legal drinking age laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use revisited pp. 477-479

Barış Yörük and Ceren Ertan Yoruk

Personality and the education–health gradient: A note on “Understanding differences in health behaviors by education” pp. 480-485

Gabriella Conti and Christopher Hansman

Volume 32, issue 1, 2013

Health in the cities: When the neighborhood matters more than income pp. 1-11

Marcel Bilger and Vincenzo Carrieri

Effect of nursing home ownership on the quality of post-acute care: An instrumental variables approach pp. 12-21

David C. Grabowski, Zhanlian Feng, Richard Hirth, Momotazur Rahman and Vincent Mor

Alcohol and student performance: Estimating the effect of legal access pp. 22-32

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell

Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization pp. 33-50

Emilia Simeonova

The psychological costs of war: Military combat and mental health pp. 51-65

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

A theoretical approach to dual practice regulations in the health sector pp. 66-87

Paula González and Ines Macho-Stadler

Health expenditure growth: Looking beyond the average through decomposition of the full distribution pp. 88-105

Claudine de Meijer, O’Donnell, Owen, Marc Koopmanschap and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Mergers and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry pp. 106-113

William S. Comanor and F.M. Scherer

Smoking initiation and the iron law of demand pp. 114-127

Dean R. Lillard, Eamon Molloy and Andrew Sfekas

Capabilities as menus: A non-welfarist basis for QALY evaluation pp. 128-137

Han Bleichrodt and John Quiggin

Do smoke-free car laws work? Evidence from a quasi-experiment pp. 138-148

Hai V. Nguyen

Firm-sponsored general education and mobility frictions: Evidence from hospital sponsorship of nursing schools and faculty pp. 149-159

Alan Benson

Participation and crowd out: Assessing the effects of parental Medicaid expansions pp. 160-171

Sarah Hamersma and Matthew Kim

Endogenous cost-effectiveness analysis and health care technology adoption pp. 172-180

Anupam B. Jena and Tomas Philipson

Discrimination in a universal health system: Explaining socioeconomic waiting time gaps pp. 181-194

Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones, Michael Keane, Elizabeth Savage and Olena Stavrunova

The effects of housing and neighborhood conditions on child mortality pp. 195-206

Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

What is the price of prevention? New evidence from a field experiment pp. 207-218

Edward N. Okeke, Clement A. Adepiti and Kayode O. Ajenifuja

Implications of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax when substitutions to non-beverage items are considered pp. 219-239

Eric A. Finkelstein, Chen Zhen, Marcel Bilger, James Nonnemaker, Assad M. Farooqui and Jessica Todd

The effect of informal care on work and wages pp. 240-252

Courtney Van Houtven, Norma Coe and Meghan Skira

The role of regret minimisation in lifestyle choices affecting the risk of coronary heart disease pp. 253-260

Marco Boeri, Alberto Longo, José M. Grisolía, W. George Hutchinson and Frank Kee

The virtuous tax: Lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase pp. 261-267

Philip J Cook and Christine Piette Durrance

Competition in the pharmaceutical industry: How do quality differences shape advertising strategies? pp. 268-285

Maria-Angeles de Frutos, Carmine Ornaghi and Georges Siotis

Collateral damage: The German food crisis, educational attainment and labor market outcomes of German post-war cohorts pp. 286-303

Hendrik Jürges

Cash transfers and domestic violence pp. 304-319

Melissa Hidrobo and Lia Fernald

Older people's participation in extra-cost disability benefits pp. 320-330

Francesca Zantomio