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 94, issue C, 2024

Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Maria Humlum, Marius Opstrup Morthorst and Peter Rønø Thingholm

The impact of scope-of-practice restrictions on access to medical care

Jiapei Guo, Angela E. Kilby and Mindy Marks

Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology

Daniel Avdic, Stephanie von Hinke, Bo Lagerqvist, Carol Propper and Johan Vikström

Regulating ethical experimentation: Impacts of the breakthrough therapy designation on drug R&D

Manuel Hermosilla

Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused

Matthew Robson, O’Donnell, Owen and Tom Van Ourti

Risk preferences over health: Empirical estimates and implications for medical decision-making

Karen Mulligan, Drishti Baid, Jason N. Doctor, Charles E. Phelps and Darius Lakdawalla

The impact of Medicaid expansion and travel distance on access to transplantation

Bethany Lemont

Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans

Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado

Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales

Rahi Abouk, Prabal K. De and Michael Pesko

Optimal intertemporal curative drug expenses: The case of hepatitis C in France

Pierre Dubois and Thierry Magnac

A new look at physicians’ responses to financial incentives: Quality of care, practice characteristics, and motivations

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz, Johanna Kokot and Daniel Wiesen

Financial incentives and private health insurance demand on the extensive and intensive margins

Nathan Kettlewell and Yuting Zhang

The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories

Alberto Prati and Charlotte Saucet

The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition

Ajin Lee and Boris Vabson

Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?

Tapio Haaga, Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen and Janne Tukiainen

Pricing above value: Selling to a market with selection problems

Jan Boone

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

Pharmaceutical demand response to utilization management

Oren Sarig

Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

Jonas Cuzulan Hirani and Miriam Wüst

The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica

Claudio Mora-García, Madeline Pesec and Andrea M. Prado

The labour market returns to sleep

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche and Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Socioeconomic status and access to mental health care: The case of psychiatric medications for children in Ontario Canada

Janet Currie, Paul Kurdyak and Jonathan Zhang

Valuing life over the life cycle

Pascal St-Amour

Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?

Ranjeeta Thomas, Matteo Galizzi, Louisa Moorhouse, Constance Nyamukapa and Timothy B. Hallett

Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health

Shaun Da Costa, O’Donnell, Owen and Raf Van Gestel

Volume 92, issue C, 2023

Effects of organized screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe

Sophie Guthmuller, Vincenzo Carrieri and Ansgar Wübker

Causal effects of mental health on food security

Helen Jensen, Brent E. Kreider, John Pepper, Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy and Kimberly A. Greder

The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom

Panka Bencsik, Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder

Patient and peer: Guideline design and expert response

Jane Greve, Søren Kristensen and Nis Lydiksen

Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Changing preferences: An experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism

Undral Byambadalai, Ching-to Ma and Daniel Wiesen

Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates

Aileen M. Devlin and Grace McCormack

Health outcomes and provider choice under full practice authority for certified nurse-midwives

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Diana R. Jolles, Alicia Plemmons and Adan Silverio-Murillo

Do tobacco 21 laws work?

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia, Drew McNichols and Calvin Bryan

Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine

Eli Liebman, Emily C. Lawler, Abe Dunn and David Ridley

Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States

Hessam Bavafa, Anita Mukherjee and Tyler Q. Welch

Physician-patient race-match reduces patient mortality

Andrew J. Hill, Daniel B. Jones and Lindsey Woodworth

The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage

Jessica H. Brown

The health effects of nursing home specialization in post-acute care

Zachary S. Templeton, Nate C. Apathy, R. Tamara Konetzka, Meghan M. Skira and Rachel M. Werner

Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences

Xinjie Shi, Yu Shen and Ran Song

Do minimum wage laws affect employer-sponsored insurance provision?

Mark K. Meiselbach and Jean M. Abraham

How do hospitals respond to input regulation? Evidence from the California nurse staffing mandate

Chandni Raja

The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog

Stephanie von Hinke and Emil N. Sørensen

Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign

Philipp Barteska, Sonja Dobkowitz, Maarit Olkkola and Michael Rieser

Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data

Hyunchul Kim and Dongwon Lee

Does informal care delay nursing home entry? Evidence from Dutch linked survey and administrative data

Julien Bergeot and Marianne Tenand

Volume 91, issue C, 2023

Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws

Sumedha Gupta, Thuy Nguyen, Patricia R. Freeman and Kosali Simon

The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment

D. Mark Anderson, Ron Diris, Raymond Montizaan and Daniel I. Rees

The morning after: Prescription-free access to emergency contraceptive pills

Gregor Pfeifer and Mirjam Stockburger

Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC

Marianne Bitler, Janet Currie, Hilary Hoynes, Krista Ruffini, Lisa Schulkind and Barton Willage

Pricing regulations in individual health insurance: Evidence from Medigap

Vilsa E. Curto

An optimal mechanism to fund the development of vaccines against emerging epidemics

Christopher Snyder, Kendall Hoyt and Dimitrios Gouglas

Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure

Dora Costa

The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world

Elisabetta Aurino, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Alessandro Tarozzi and Brendan Tinoco

Does drug decriminalization increase unintentional drug overdose deaths?

Noah Spencer

Beyond particulate matter: New evidence on the causal effects of air pollution on mortality

Maoyong Fan, Hanchen Jiang and Maigeng Zhou

Heat and worker health

Andrew Ireland, David Johnston and Rachel Knott

Private equity and healthcare firm behavior: Evidence from ambulatory surgery centers

Haizhen Lin, Elizabeth Munnich, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley and Xiaoxi Zhao

Cognitive ability, health policy, and the dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson and Mattias Öhman