Journal of Health Economics

1982 - 2025

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Volume 27, issue 6, 2008

Moral hazard in insurance, value-based cost sharing, and the benefits of blissful ignorance pp. 1407-1417

Mark V. Pauly and Fredric E. Blavin

To wait or to pay for medical treatment? Restraining ex-post moral hazard in health insurance pp. 1418-1422

Stefan Felder

Effect of public long-term care insurance on consumption, medical care demand, and welfare pp. 1423-1435

Hideki Ariizumi

Physicians' multitasking and incentives: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment pp. 1436-1450

Etienne Dumont, Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet and Bruce Shearer

Managed care and medical expenditures of Medicare beneficiaries pp. 1451-1461

Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca and Robert Town

Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity pp. 1462-1471

Matthew Rablen and Andrew Oswald

Persistence in health limitations: A European comparative analysis pp. 1472-1488

Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Andrew Jones and Nigel Rice

An evaluation of the age-profile in the relationship between household income and the health of children in the United States pp. 1489-1502

Jason Murasko

Smoking and social interaction pp. 1503-1515

Panu Poutvaara and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

Does education induce healthy lifestyle? pp. 1516-1531

Cheolsung Park and Changhui Kang

Local labor market fluctuations and health: Is there a connection and for whom? pp. 1532-1550

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Philip DeCicca

Welfare reform, time limits, and infant health pp. 1551-1566

Jonathan Leonard and Alexandre Mas

Has public health insurance for older children reduced disparities in access to care and health outcomes? pp. 1567-1581

Janet Currie, Sandra Decker and Wanchuan Lin

Progressivity, horizontal inequality and reranking caused by health system financing: A decomposition analysis for Switzerland pp. 1582-1593

Marcel Bilger

Aversion to health inequalities and priority setting in health care pp. 1594-1604

Han Bleichrodt, David Crainich and Louis Eeckhoudt

Decomposing the causes of inequalities in health care use: A micro-simulations approach pp. 1605-1613

Hélène Huber

Inequality measurement for ordered response health data pp. 1614-1625

Ramses Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin

Robustness in health research: Do differences in health measures, techniques, and time frame matter? pp. 1626-1644

Paul Frijters and Aydogan Ulker

Future costs in economic evaluation: A comment on Lee pp. 1645-1649

Talitha L. Feenstra, Pieter H.M. van Baal, Afshin Gandjour and Werner Brouwer

Thinking rigorously about future costs in cost effectiveness analysis pp. 1650-1651

Robert H. Lee

Volume 27, issue 5, 2008

Ramsey waits: Allocating public health service resources when there is rationing by waiting pp. 1143-1154

Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

Choice of contracts in the British National Health Service: An empirical study pp. 1155-1167

Martin Chalkley and Duncan McVicar

Do physician remuneration schemes matter? The case of Canadian family physicians pp. 1168-1181

Rose Anne Devlin and Sisira Sarma

Using global ratings of health plans to improve the quality of health care pp. 1182-1195

Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire, Zhun Cao and Alan Zaslavsky

Supply-side risk adjustment and outlier payment policy pp. 1196-1200

Michel Mougeot and Florence Naegelen

Start spreading the news: A structural estimate of the effects of New York hospital report cards pp. 1201-1207

David Dranove and Andrew Sfekas

Hospital ownership and performance: Evidence from stroke and cardiac treatment in Taiwan pp. 1208-1223

Hsienming Lien, Shin-Yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu

Cost-effectiveness analysis and innovation pp. 1224-1236

Anupam Jena and Tomas Philipson

New tests of QALYs when health varies over time pp. 1237-1249

Han Bleichrodt and Martin Filko

Incorporating model uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis: A Bayesian model averaging approach pp. 1250-1259

Negri­n, Miguel A. and Francisco-José Vázquez-Polo

Predicting health behaviors with an experimental measure of risk preference pp. 1260-1274

Lisa Anderson and Jennifer Mellor

Optimal recall length in survey design pp. 1275-1284

Philip M. Clarke, Denzil Fiebig and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Are tax subsidies for private medical insurance self-financing? Evidence from a microsimulation model pp. 1285-1298

Ángel López Nicolás and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

Gender, risk perceptions, and smoking behavior pp. 1299-1311

Petter Lundborg and Henrik Andersson

Health and wealth of elderly couples: Causality tests using dynamic panel data models pp. 1312-1325

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

Heightened mortality after the death of a spouse: Marriage protection or marriage selection? pp. 1326-1342

Javier Espinosa and William Evans

The effect of water accessibility on child health in China pp. 1343-1356

Eiji Mangyo

GP supply and obesity pp. 1357-1367

Stephen Morris and Hugh Gravelle

The effect of adolescent virginity status on psychological well-being pp. 1368-1381

Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic pp. 1382-1387

Ethan Cohen-Cole and Jason Fletcher

Peer effects in adolescent overweight pp. 1388-1399

Justin Trogdon, James Nonnemaker and Joanne Pais

Estimating peer effects on health in social networks: A response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; and Trogdon, Nonnemaker, and Pais pp. 1400-1405

J.H. Fowler and N.A. Christakis

Volume 27, issue 4, 2008

Future costs in cost effectiveness analysis pp. 809-818

Robert H. Lee

Future costs and the future of cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 819-821

Alan M. Garber and Charles E. Phelps

Response to "Future costs and the future of cost-effectiveness analysis" pp. 822-825

David Meltzer

Does health care spending improve health outcomes? Evidence from English programme budgeting data pp. 826-842

Stephen Martin, Nigel Rice and Peter C. Smith

The impact of early discharge laws on the health of newborns pp. 843-870

William Evans, Craig Garthwaite and Heng Wei

Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates pp. 871-887

Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan

Does teenage childbearing increase smoking, drinking and body size? pp. 888-903

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

Cigarette taxes and the transition from youth to adult smoking: Smoking initiation, cessation, and participation pp. 904-917

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios

Cigarette taxes and older adult smoking: Evidence from recent large tax increases pp. 918-929

Philip DeCicca and Logan McLeod

The impact of tobacco advertising bans on consumption in developing countries pp. 930-942

Evan Blecher

The mortality cost to smokers pp. 943-958

W Viscusi and Joni Hersch

Willingness to pay for drug rehabilitation: Implications for cost recovery pp. 959-972

David Bishai, J. Sindelar, E.P. Ricketts, S. Huettner, L. Cornelius, J.J. Lloyd, J.R. Havens, C.A. Latkin and S.A. Strathdee

Safety for whom? The effects of light trucks on traffic fatalities pp. 973-989

Michael Anderson

Can insurance increase financial risk?: The curious case of health insurance in China pp. 990-1005

Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow

Moral hazard and the demand for health services: A matching estimator approach pp. 1006-1025

Pedro Barros, Matilde Machado and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

Is managed care restraining the adoption of technology by hospitals? pp. 1026-1045

Núria Mas and Janice Seinfeld

Does how much and how you pay matter? Evidence from the inpatient rehabilitation care prospective payment system pp. 1046-1059

Neeraj Sood, Melinda Buntin and José J. Escarce

Market incentives and pharmaceutical innovation pp. 1060-1077

Wesley Yin

Modelling heterogeneity in patients' preferences for the attributes of a general practitioner appointment pp. 1078-1094

Arne Hole

Bias and asymmetric loss in expert forecasts: A study of physician prognostic behavior with respect to patient survival pp. 1095-1108

Marcus Alexander and Nicholas A. Christakis

A discrete choice decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic differences in children's health insurance coverage pp. 1109-1128

Yuriy Pylypchuk and Thomas Selden

Comment--Defining health insurance affordability: Unobserved heterogeneity matters pp. 1129-1140

Ralph Bradley

Corrigendum to "Stationarity of health expenditures and GDP: Evidence from panel unit root tests with heterogeneous structural breaks" [J. Health Econ. 22 (2003) 313-323] pp. 1141-1142

Junsoo Lee, Margie Tieslau, Mark Strazicich and Todd Jewell

Volume 27, issue 3, 2008

Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: Addressing endogeneity in health econometric modeling pp. 531-543

Joseph Terza, Anirban Basu and Paul J. Rathouz

The reversal of the relation between economic growth and health progress: Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries pp. 544-563

José Tapia Granados and Edward L. Ionides

Health status and health dynamics in an empirical model of expected longevity pp. 564-584

Beni­tez-Silva, Hugo and Huan Ni

Information technology and medical missteps: Evidence from a randomized trial pp. 585-602

Jonathan C. Javitt, James Rebitzer and Lonny Reisman

What drives health care expenditure?--Baumol's model of 'unbalanced growth' revisited pp. 603-623

Jochen Hartwig

Avoidable mortality risks and measurement of wellbeing and inequality pp. 624-641

Kam Ki Tang, Jackie T.C. Chin and D.S. Prasada Rao

The effects of mandatory seatbelt laws on seatbelt use, motor vehicle fatalities, and crash-related injuries among youths pp. 642-662

Christopher Carpenter and Mark Stehr

Optimal quality, waits and charges in health insurance pp. 663-674

Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

The economics of sexuality: The effect of HIV/AIDS on homosexual behavior in the United States pp. 675-689

Andrew M. Francis

Birth spacing, fertility selection and child survival: Analysis using a correlated hazard model pp. 690-705

Pushkar Maitra and Sarmistha Pal

Is risk attitude outcome specific within the health domain? pp. 706-717

Marjon van der Pol and Matteo Ruggeri

Your next of kin or your own career?: Caring and working among the 50+ of Europe pp. 718-738

Kristian Bolin, B. Lindgren and Petter Lundborg

Are some lives more valuable? An ethical preferences approach pp. 739-752

Olof Johansson-Stenman and Peter Martinsson

Emotions and decision rules in discrete choice experiments for valuing health care programmes for the elderly pp. 753-769

Jorge Araña, Carmelo J. León and Michael Hanemann

Are primary care physicians, public and private sector specialists substitutes or complements? Evidence from a simultaneous equations model for count data pp. 770-785

Vincenzo Atella and Partha Deb

Welfare reform and the decline in the health-insurance coverage of children of non-permanent residents pp. 786-793

Ithai Zvi Lurie

Child mental health and human capital accumulation: The case of ADHD revisited pp. 794-800

Jason Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe

The income gradient in children's health: A comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price pp. 801-807

Anne Case, Diana Lee and Christina Paxson

Volume 27, issue 2, 2008

The risk we bear: The effects of review speed and industry user fees on new drug safety pp. 175-200

Mary Olson

Crowd-out 10 years later: Have recent public insurance expansions crowded out private health insurance? pp. 201-217

Jonathan Gruber and Kosali Simon

Hypertension and happiness across nations pp. 218-233

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

Mad cows, terrorism and junk food: Should public policy reflect perceived or objective risks? pp. 234-248

Olof Johansson-Stenman

Asymmetric peer effects in the analysis of cigarette smoking among young people in the United States, 1992-1999 pp. 249-264

Jeffrey E. Harris and Beatriz González López-Valcárcel

Social networks, information and health care utilization: Evidence from undocumented immigrants in Milan pp. 265-286

Carlo Devillanova

Cigarette taxes and youth smoking: New evidence from national, state, and local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys pp. 287-299

Christopher Carpenter and Philip J Cook

Sample selection versus two-part models revisited: The case of female smoking and drinking pp. 300-307

David Madden

Health, income and relative deprivation: Evidence from the BHPS pp. 308-324

Andrew Jones and John Wildman

Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism pp. 325-338

Werner Brouwer, Anthony Culyer, Job van Exel and Frans F.H. Rutten

Medicare reimbursement, nurse staffing, and patient outcomes pp. 339-361

Robert Kaestner and Jose Guardado

Is the impact of managed care on hospital prices decreasing? pp. 362-376

David Dranove, Richard Lindrooth, William D. White and Jack Zwanziger

The strategic interaction between firms and formulary committees: Effects on the prices of new drugs pp. 377-404

Garci­a-Alonso, Mari­a D.C. and Garci­a-Mariñoso, Begoña

Modelling geographic variation in the cost-effectiveness of control policies for infectious vector diseases: The example of Chagas disease pp. 405-426

Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, Zaid Chalabi, Joanne Lord, Felipe Guhl, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Clive Davies and Julia Fox-Rushby

Risk equalization and voluntary deductibles: A complex interaction pp. 427-443

R.C. van Kleef, K. Beck, W.P.M.M. van de Ven and R.C.J.A. van Vliet

Is patient satisfaction sensitive to changes in the quality of care? An exploitation of the Hawthorne effect pp. 444-459

Kenneth Leonard

Who pays for health care in Asia? pp. 460-475

Owen O'Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Baktygul Akkazieva, Deni Harbianto, Charu C. Garg, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Alejandro N. Herrin, Mohammed N. Huq, Shamsia Ibragimova, Anup Karan, Soon-man Kwon, Gabriel M. Leung, Jui-fen Rachel Lu, Yasushi Ohkusa, Badri Raj Pande, Rachel Racelis, Keith Tin, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Laksono Trisnantoro, Quan Wan, Bong-Min Yang and Yuxin Zhao

Measuring and illustrating statistical evidence in a cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 476-495

Jeffrey Hoch and Jeffrey D. Blume

Dynamics of work disability and pain pp. 496-509

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

Busy physicians pp. 510-518

Jostein Grytten and Rune Sørensen

Beyond BMI: The value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research pp. 519-529

Richard Burkhauser and John Cawley

Volume 27, issue 1, 2008

Mortality, lifestyle and socio-economic status pp. 1-26

Silvia Balia and Andrew Jones

Income productivity in China: On the role of health pp. 27-44

Gordon G. Liu, William Dow, Alex Z. Fu, John Akin and Peter Lance

Determining the impact of food price and income changes on body weight pp. 45-68

Christiane Schroeter, Jayson Lusk and Wallace Tyner

Projecting long term medical spending growth pp. 69-88

Christine Borger, Thomas Rutherford and Gregory Y. Won

Estimating workers' marginal valuation of employer health benefits: Would insured workers prefer more health insurance or higher wages pp. 89-105

Anne Royalty

The effectiveness of cigarette regulations in reducing cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome pp. 106-133

Sara Markowitz

Informal care and Medicare expenditures: Testing for heterogeneous treatment effects pp. 134-156

Courtney Van Houtven and Edward Norton

Does treating maternal depression improve child health management The case of pediatric asthma pp. 157-173

Cynthia D. Perry