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 89, issue C, 2023

A drop of love? Rainfall shocks and spousal abuse: Evidence from rural Peru

Juan Jose Diaz and Victor Saldarriaga

Should physicians team up to treat chronic diseases?

Malte Griebenow

Providers, peers and patients. How do physicians’ practice environments affect patient outcomes?

Daniel Avdic, Maryna Ivets, Bo Lagerqvist and Ieva Sriubaite

Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S

Travis Campbell and Yana Rodgers

The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales

Mary Reader

Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado

Coleman Drake, David Anderson, Sih-Ting Cai and Daniel W. Sacks

Do urgent care centers reduce Medicare spending?

Janet Currie, Anastasia Karpova and Dan Zeltzer

The impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program on Critical Access Hospitals: Evidence from Medicare Part B

Dan Han

Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance

Johannes Schünemann, Holger Strulik and Timo Trimborn

Volume 88, issue C, 2023

Mask mandates save lives

Niels-Jakob H. Hansen and Rui Mano

Spatial dependence in physicians’ prices and additional fees: Evidence from France

Benjamin Montmartin and Marcos Herrera-Gómez

Hooked on weight control: An economic theory of anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity

Holger Strulik

Negative effects of long parental leave on maternal health: Evidence from a substantial policy change in Austria

Caroline Chuard

Self-reported health status and latent health dynamics

Matthew N. White

Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths

Neil K. Mathur and Christopher J. Ruhm

The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market

My Tran, Brenda Gannon and Christiern Rose

Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions

Christopher S. Carpenter, Brandyn Churchill and Michelle Marcus

Volume 87, issue C, 2023

Soil zinc deficiency and child stunting: Evidence from Nepal

Leah Bevis, Kichan Kim and David Guerena

The effects of pregnancy-related Medicaid expansions on maternal, infant, and child health

Melanie Guldi and Sarah Hamersma

The kids aren’t alright: The effects of medical marijuana market size on adolescents

Rosanna Smart and Jacqueline Doremus

Early childhood health shocks, classroom environment, and social-emotional outcomes

Weina Zhou and Shun Wang

Local economic growth and infant mortality

Andreas Kammerlander and Günther Schulze

Reductions in out-of-pocket prices and forward-looking moral hazard in health care demand

Naimi Johansson, Sonja C. de New, Johannes Kunz, Dennis Petrie and Mikael Svensson

Rents for Pills: Financial incentives and physician behavior

Tobias Müller, Christian Schmid and Michael Gerfin

The power of markets: Impact of desert locust invasions on child health

Bruno Conte, Lavinia Piemontese and Augustin Tapsoba

Does retirement (really) increase informal caregiving? Quasi-experimental evidence from Australia

Rong Zhu and Ilke Onur

QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health

Juan Moreno-Ternero, Trine Platz and Lars Peter Østerdal

Contracts for primary and secondary care physicians and equity-efficiency trade-offs

Oddvar Kaarboe and Luigi Siciliani

The formation of physician altruism

Arthur Attema, Matteo Galizzi, Mona Groß, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Yassin Karay, L’Haridon, Olivier and Daniel Wiesen

Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, health expenditure growth, and welfare

Ivan Frankovic and Michael Kuhn

Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital

Giorgia Menta, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew Clark, Simone Ghislandi and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Do different shocks in health matter for wealth?

Johan Bonekamp and Bram Wouterse

Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use

Rahi Abouk, Charles Courtemanche, Dhaval Dave, Bo Feng, Abigail S. Friedman, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Michael Pesko, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news

Marco Colagrossi, Claudio Deiana, Davide Dragone, Andrea Geraci, Ludovica Giua and Elisa Iori

The drug crisis and the living arrangements of children

Kasey Buckles, William Evans and Ethan Lieber

Volume 86, issue C, 2022

Heterogeneity in informal care intensity and its impact on employment

Gaëlle Simard-Duplain

Technology adoption and market allocation: The case of robotic surgery

Danea Horn, Adam Sacarny and Annetta Zhou

The impact of automatic enrolment on the mental health gap in pension participation: Evidence from the UK

Karen Arulsamy and Liam Delaney

State mental health insurance parity laws and college educational outcomes

Keisha T. Solomon and Kabir Dasgupta

The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data

Chad Cotti, Charles Courtemanche, Joanna Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson, Michael Pesko and Nathan Tefft

Rewards for information provision in patient referrals: A theoretical model and an experimental test

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Malte Griebenow, Mathias Kifmann and Franziska Then

Out of time? The effect of an infrequent traumatic event on individuals’ time and risk preferences, beliefs, and insurance purchasing

Ori Shai

Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia

Friederike Lenel, Jan Priebe, Elan Satriawan and Ekki Syamsulhakim

The marginal benefit of hospitals: Evidence from the effect of entry and exit on utilization and mortality rates

Nathan Petek

Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities

Diana Freise, Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal

Social insurance programs and later-life mortality: Evidence from new deal relief spending

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Michal Engelman

Time preference, illness, and death

Lisa Norrgren

Comparing long-term educational effects of two early childhood health interventions

Darwin Cortés, Darío Maldonado, Juan Gallego, Nathalie Charpak, Rejean Tessier, Juan Gabriel Ruiz, José Tiberio Hernandez, Felipe Uriza and Julieth Pico

Disruptions to healthcare quality and early child health outcomes: Evidence from health-worker strikes in Kenya

Willa Friedman, Anthony Keats and Martin Kavao Mutua

Understanding the relationship between nonprofit hospital community benefit spending and system membership: An analysis of independent hospital acquisitions

Kelsey M. Owsley and Richard Lindrooth