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 29, issue 6, 2010

Effects of urban sprawl on obesity pp. 779-787

Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner

The impact of casinos on fatal alcohol-related traffic accidents in the United States pp. 788-796

Chad Cotti and Douglas Walker

The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: Do government ideology and electoral motives matter? pp. 797-810

Niklas Potrafke

Getting used to it: The adaptive global utility model pp. 811-820

W. David Bradford and Paul Dolan

Selection stories: Understanding movement across health plans pp. 821-838

David Cutler, Bryan Lincoln and Richard Zeckhauser

The value of coverage in the medicare advantage insurance market pp. 839-855

Abe Dunn

Price and welfare effects of a pharmaceutical substitution reform pp. 856-865

David Granlund

Returns to physician human capital: Evidence from patients randomized to physician teams pp. 866-882

Joseph J. Doyle , Steven M. Ewer and Todd H. Wagner

Estimating the value of social care pp. 883-894

Peter Burge, Ann Netten and Federico Gallo

Do they care too much to work? The influence of caregiving intensity on the labour force participation of unpaid caregivers in Canada pp. 895-903

Meredith B. Lilly, Audrey Laporte and Peter C. Coyte

Volume 29, issue 5, 2010

Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846-1847 pp. 617-629

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

Health, aging and childhood socio-economic conditions in Mexico pp. 630-640

Franque Grimard, Sonia Laszlo and Wilfredo Lim

The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: Evidence based on exact birth dates pp. 641-656

Todd Elder

Measuring inappropriate medical diagnosis and treatment in survey data: The case of ADHD among school-age children pp. 657-673

William Evans, Melinda Morrill and Stephen T. Parente

Mercury advisories and household health trade-offs pp. 674-685

Jay Shimshack and Michael Ward

Overworked? On the relationship between workload and health worker performance pp. 686-698

Ottar Mæstad, Gaute Torsvik and Arild Aakvik

Bribery in health care in Uganda pp. 699-707

Jennifer Hunt

Individual discount rates and smoking: Evidence from a field experiment in Denmark pp. 708-717

Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau and Elisabet Rutstrom

Effects of report cards on referral patterns to cardiac surgeons pp. 718-731

Andrew J. Epstein

Does information matter? The effect of the Meth Project on meth use among youths pp. 732-742

D. Mark Anderson

Is newer always better? Re-evaluating the benefits of newer pharmaceuticals pp. 743-750

Michael R. Law and Karen A. Grépin

Competition in general practice: Prescriptions to the elderly in a list patient system pp. 751-764

Inger Cathrine Kann, Erik Biorn and Hilde Lurås

Does competition from ambulatory surgical centers affect hospital surgical output? pp. 765-773

Charles Courtemanche and Michael Plotzke

Body weight and smoking initiation: Evidence from Add Health pp. 774-777

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

Volume 29, issue 4, 2010

Equity during an economic crisis: Financing of the Argentine health system pp. 479-488

Eleonora Cavagnero and Marcel Bilger

Risk adjustment in health insurance and its long-term effectiveness pp. 489-498

Konstantin Beck, Maria Trottmann and Peter Zweifel

Capping risk adjustment? pp. 499-507

Patrick Eugster, Michèle Sennhauser and Peter Zweifel

Competition and quality in health care markets: A differential-game approach pp. 508-523

Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Imperfect information in a quality-competitive hospital market pp. 524-535

Hugh Gravelle and Peter Sivey

Implications of an economic model of health states worse than dead pp. 536-540

Rajiv Sharma and Miron Stano

Increasing marginal utility of small increases in life-expectancy?: Results from a population survey pp. 541-548

Maria Knoph Kvamme, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Jan Abel Olsen and Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen

Caring for and caring about: Disentangling the caregiver effect and the family effect pp. 549-556

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

Toxic exposure in America: Estimating fetal and infant health outcomes from 14 years of TRI reporting pp. 557-574

Nikhil Agarwal, Chanont Banternghansa and Linda Bui

The impacts of the rise of Paragraph IV challenges on startup alliance formation and firm value in the pharmaceutical industry pp. 575-584

Darren Filson and Ahmed Oweis

System-wide impacts of hospital payment reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia pp. 585-602

Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Adam Wagstaff

Population density and racial differences in the performance of emergency medical services pp. 603-615

Guy David and Scott E. Harrington

Volume 29, issue 3, 2010

An economic evaluation of the war on cancer pp. 333-346

Darius Lakdawalla, Eric Sun, Anupam Jena, Carolina M. Reyes, Dana Goldman and Tomas Philipson

The economics of intense exercise pp. 347-352

David O. Meltzer and Anupam Jena

Maternal employment and the health of low-income young children pp. 353-363

Lisa A. Gennetian, Heather D. Hill, Andrew S. London and Leonard M. Lopoo

The effect of children on adult demands for health-risk reductions pp. 364-376

Trudy Cameron, J.R. DeShazo and Erica H. Johnson

Long term effects of childhood asthma on adult health pp. 377-387

Jason Fletcher, Jeremy C. Green and Matthew Neidell

Debt and depression pp. 388-403

Sarah Bridges and Richard Disney

The role of education in the production of health: An empirical analysis of smoking behavior pp. 404-417

Steven Tenn, Douglas A. Herman and Brett Wendling

The effect of Medicare coverage for the disabled on the market for private insurance pp. 418-425

John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler

A limited-sample benchmark approach to assess and improve the performance of risk equalization models pp. 426-437

Pieter J.A. Stam, René C.J.A. van Vliet and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

Stockpiling anti-viral drugs for a pandemic: The role of Manufacturer Reserve Programs pp. 438-444

Joseph E. Harrington and Edbert B. Hsu

Should new antimalarial drugs be subsidized? pp. 445-456

Ramanan Laxminarayan, Ian Parry, David L. Smith and Eili Y. Klein

Monitoring technology and firm boundaries: Physician-hospital integration and technology utilization pp. 457-467

Jeffrey S. McCullough and Eli M. Snir

Simulation sample sizes for Monte Carlo partial EVPI calculations pp. 468-477

Jeremy E. Oakley, Alan Brennan, Paul Tappenden and Jim Chilcott

Volume 29, issue 2, 2010

The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India pp. 191-204

Sonia Bhalotra, Christine Valente and Arthur van Soest

Do red herrings swim in circles? Controlling for the endogeneity of time to death pp. 205-212

Stefan Felder, Andreas Werblow and Peter Zweifel

Progress and compliance in alcohol abuse treatment pp. 213-225

Hsienming Lien, Mingshan Lu, Ching-to Ma and Thomas G. McGuire

Consequences of eliminating federal disability benefits for substance abusers pp. 226-240

Pinka Chatterji and Ellen Meara

Social host liability for minors and underage drunk-driving accidents pp. 241-249

Angela Dills

Tolerance and HIV pp. 250-267

Andrew M. Francis and Hugo Mialon

Hyperbolic discounting, the sign effect, and the body mass index pp. 268-284

Shinsuke Ikeda, Myong-Il Kang and Fumio Ohtake

The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes pp. 285-302

Patrick Puhani and Katja Sonderhof

Retail price regulation and innovation: Reference pricing in the pharmaceutical industry pp. 303-316

David Bardey, Antoine Bommier and Bruno Jullien

Why are junior doctors reluctant to consult attending physicians? pp. 317-324

Otto Swank

The additive utility assumption of the QALY model revisited pp. 325-328

Afschin Gandjour and Amiram Gafni

A reply to Gandjour and Gafni pp. 329-331

Han Bleichrodt and Martin Filko

Volume 29, issue 1, 2010

Understanding differences in health behaviors by education pp. 1-28

David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Does education reduce the probability of being overweight? pp. 29-38

Dinand Webbink, Nicholas G. Martin and Peter M. Visscher

Childhood economic conditions and length of life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr cohort, 1937-2005 pp. 39-47

Paul Frijters, Timothy Hatton, Richard M. Martin and Michael Shields

Behavioral impact of graduated driver licensing on teenage driving risk and exposure pp. 48-61

Pinar Karaca-Mandic and Greg Ridgeway

The fatal toll of driving to drink: The effect of minimum legal drinking age evasion on traffic fatalities pp. 62-77

Michael Lovenheim and Joel Slemrod

Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality pp. 78-86

Paul Allanson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Dennis Petrie

Hospital closure and economic efficiency pp. 87-109

Cory Capps, David Dranove and Richard Lindrooth

A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical costs pp. 110-123

Lei Liu, Robert L. Strawderman, Mark E. Cowen and Ya-Chen Shih

Physician incentives: Cure versus prevention pp. 124-136

Kris De Jaegher

Monopoly pricing of an antibiotic subject to bacterial resistance pp. 137-150

Markus Herrmann

Calculating the concentration index when income is grouped pp. 151-157

Philip Clarke and Tom Van Ourti

Does graded return-to-work improve sick-listed workers' chance of returning to regular working hours? pp. 158-169

Jan Høgelund, Anders Holm and James McIntosh

Budgetary policies and available actions: A generalisation of decision rules for allocation and research decisions pp. 170-181

Claire McKenna, Zaid Chalabi, David Epstein and Karl Claxton

Who will care? Employment participation and willingness to supply informal care pp. 182-190

F. Carmichael, S. Charles and C. Hulme