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 31, issue 6, 2012

Understanding overeating and obesity pp. 781-796

Christopher Ruhm

Economic booms and risky sexual behavior: Evidence from Zambian copper mining cities pp. 797-812

Nicholas Wilson

Junior doctors’ preferences for specialty choice pp. 813-823

Peter Sivey, Anthony Scott, Julia Witt, Catherine Joyce and John Humphreys

Price elasticity of expenditure across health care services pp. 824-841

Fabián Duarte

On insuring and caring for parents’ long-term care needs pp. 842-850

Christophe Courbage and Louis Eeckhoudt

What U.S. data should be used to measure the price elasticity of demand for alcohol? pp. 851-862

Christopher Ruhm, Alison Jones, Kerry Anne McGeary, William C. Kerr, Joseph Terza, Thomas K. Greenfield and Ravi S. Pandian

The effect of expanding access to health insurance on the health and mortality of Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries pp. 863-875

Robert R. Weathers and Michelle Stegman

Time to death and the forecasting of macro-level health care expenditures: Some further considerations pp. 876-887

Pieter H. van Baal and Albert Wong

Volume 31, issue 5, 2012

The regulation of health care providers’ payments when horizontal and vertical differentiation matter pp. 691-704

David Bardey, Chiara Canta and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

The impact of direct-to-consumer television and magazine advertising on antidepressant use pp. 705-718

Rosemary J. Avery, Matthew D. Eisenberg and Kosali I. Simon

The heterogeneity of the cigarette price effect on body mass index pp. 719-729

George L. Wehby and Charles Courtemanche

Hospital volume responses to Medicare's Outpatient Prospective Payment System: Evidence from Florida pp. 730-743

Daifeng He and Jennifer Mellor

Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey pp. 744-751

Melissa McInerney and Jennifer Mellor

The toll of fertility on mothers’ wellbeing pp. 752-766

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Marianne Simonsen

Early life exposure to malaria and cognition in adulthood: Evidence from Mexico pp. 767-780

Atheendar Venkataramani

Volume 31, issue 4, 2012

Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California pp. 545-563

N. Meltem Daysal

The effects of cannabis use on physical and mental health pp. 564-577

Jan C. van Ours and Jenny Williams

Proposing indicators to measure achievement and shortfall inequality consistently pp. 578-583

Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Oihana Aristondo

Does smoking affect schooling? Evidence from teenagers in rural China pp. 584-598

Meng Zhao, Yoshifumi Konishi and Paul Glewwe

Effect of job loss due to plant closure on mortality and hospitalization pp. 599-616

Martin Browning and Eskil Heinesen

Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program pp. 617-629

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson and Susan Niknami

The value of medical and pharmaceutical interventions for reducing obesity pp. 630-643

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng and Adam H. Gailey

Does staying in school (and not working) prevent teen smoking and drinking? pp. 644-657

Robert Jensen and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Diversify or focus? Spending to combat infectious diseases when budgets are tight pp. 658-675

Soren Anderson, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Stephen Salant

Measurement of inequity in health care with heterogeneous response of use to need pp. 676-689

Ellen Van de Poel, Eddy Van Doorslaer and O’Donnell, Owen

Volume 31, issue 3, 2012

Incentive and selection effects of Medigap insurance on inpatient care pp. 457-470

Valentino Dardanoni and Paolo Li Donni

Regulation and competition in the Taiwanese pharmaceutical market under national health insurance pp. 471-483

Ya-Ming Liu, Yea-Huei Kao Yang and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

Priority setting in health care and higher order degree change in risk pp. 484-489

Christophe Courbage and Beatrice Rey

Does retirement affect cognitive functioning? pp. 490-501

Eric Bonsang, Stéphane Adam and Sergio Perelman

Health investment decisions in response to diabetes information in older Americans pp. 502-520

Alexander N. Slade

Is a QALY still a QALY at the end of life? pp. 521-527

Jeff Round

Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS pp. 528-543

Martin Gaynor, Mauro Laudicella and Carol Propper

Volume 31, issue 2, 2012

Evergreening, patent challenges, and effective market life in pharmaceuticals pp. 327-339

C. Scott Hemphill and Bhaven Sampat

The effect of a hospital nurse staffing mandate on patient health outcomes: Evidence from California's minimum staffing regulation pp. 340-348

Andrew Cook, Martin Gaynor, Melvin Stephens and Lowell Taylor

Watchfully waiting: Medical intervention as an optimal investment decision pp. 349-358

Elisabeth Meyer and Ray Rees

Hospital ownership type and treatment choices pp. 359-370

Esra Eren Bayindir

Do patients choose hospitals with high quality ratings? Empirical evidence from the market for angioplasty in the Netherlands pp. 371-378

Marco Varkevisser, Stéphanie A. van der Geest and Frederik T. Schut

The utility of health and wealth pp. 379-392

Moshe Levy and Adi Rizansky Nir

The effect of comprehensive state tobacco control programs on adult cigarette smoking pp. 393-405

Jennifer K. Rhoads

Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens pp. 406-439

Adam Wagstaff and Anthony Culyer

Pricing of drugs with heterogeneous health insurance coverage pp. 440-456

Ida Ferrara and Paul Missios

Volume 31, issue 1, 2012

Does health insurance coverage lead to better health and educational outcomes? Evidence from rural China pp. 1-14

Yuyu Chen and Ginger Zhe Jin

Inequality decomposition by population subgroups for ordinal data pp. 15-21

Martyna Kobus and Piotr Miłoś

A test of independence of discounting from quality of life pp. 22-34

Arthur Attema and Werner Brouwer

HIV and sexual behavior change: Why not Africa? pp. 35-49

Emily Oster

Do consumers respond to publicly reported quality information? Evidence from nursing homes pp. 50-61

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

Using a discrete choice experiment to elicit the demand for a nutritious food: Willingness-to-pay for orange maize in rural Zambia pp. 62-71

J.V. Meenakshi, A. Banerji, Victor Manyong, Keith Tomlins, Nitya Mittal and Priscilla Hamukwala

Moral hazard and selection among the poor: Evidence from a randomized experiment pp. 72-85

Jörg Spenkuch

An experimental test of the concentration index pp. 86-98

Han Bleichrodt, Kirsten Rohde and Tom Van Ourti

Discrimination makes me sick! An examination of the discrimination–health relationship pp. 99-111

David Johnston and Grace Lordan

The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: Evidence from the minimum legal drinking age pp. 112-121

Benjamin Crost and Santiago Guerrero

The impact of water quality on health: Evidence from the drinking water infrastructure program in rural China pp. 122-134

Jing Zhang

The other ex ante moral hazard in health pp. 135-146

Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen

Marginal benefit incidence of public health spending: Evidence from Indonesian sub-national data pp. 147-157

Ioana Kruse, Menno Pradhan and Robert Sparrow

GET MORE, PAY MORE? An elaborate test of construct validity of willingness to pay per QALY estimates obtained through contingent valuation pp. 158-168

Ana Bobinac, Job van Exel, Frans F.H. Rutten and Werner Brouwer

Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investments under alternative payment rules pp. 169-179

Rosella Levaggi, Michele Moretto and Paolo Pertile

Pollution exposure and child health: Evidence for infants and toddlers in Germany pp. 180-196

Katja Coneus and Katharina Spiess

Are estimates of the value of a statistical life exaggerated? pp. 197-206

Chris Doucouliagos, T. Stanley and Margaret Giles

Trajectories of health-related quality of life differ by age among adults: Results from an eight-year longitudinal study pp. 207-218

Keiko Asakawa, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, David Feeny, Jeffrey Johnson and Darryl Rolfson

The medical care costs of obesity: An instrumental variables approach pp. 219-230

John Cawley and Chad Meyerhoefer

Supply-side and demand-side cost sharing in deregulated social health insurance: Which is more effective? pp. 231-242

Maria Trottmann, Peter Zweifel and Konstantin Beck

Thinness and obesity: A model of food consumption, health concerns, and social pressure pp. 243-256

Davide Dragone and Luca Savorelli

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”—Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health pp. 257-270

Guido Erreygers, Philip Clarke and Tom Van Ourti

Financial incentives for maternal health: Impact of a national programme in Nepal pp. 271-284

Timothy Powell-Jackson and Kara Hanson

When does weight matter most? pp. 285-295

Alice Chen

Birds of a feather flock together: A study of doctor–patient matching pp. 296-305

Geir Godager

Using a discrete choice experiment to estimate health state utility values pp. 306-318

Nick Bansback, John Brazier, Aki Tsuchiya and Aslam Anis