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 26, issue 6, 2007

In recognition of Joseph P. Newhouse pp. 1071-1072

Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

In recognition of Anthony J. Culyer pp. 1073-1074

Karl Claxton

25 years of excellence: The Journal of Health Economics in retrospective pp. 1075-1080

Charles E. Phelps

The lifetime costs and benefits of medical technology pp. 1081-1100

David Cutler

Custom-made versus ready-to-wear treatments: Behavioral propensities in physicians' choices pp. 1101-1127

Richard G. Frank and Richard Zeckhauser

Optimal health insurance for prevention and treatment pp. 1128-1150

Randall Ellis and Willard Manning

How much uncompensated care do doctors provide? pp. 1151-1169

Jonathan Gruber and David Rodriguez

Using performance measures to motivate `report-averse' and `report-loving' agents pp. 1170-1189

Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire and Joseph Newhouse

Volume 26, issue 5, 2007

Altered states: The impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioids pp. 865-876

Gary J. Badger, Warren K. Bickel, Louis A. Giordano, Eric A. Jacobs, George Loewenstein and Lisa Marsch

Does education affect smoking behaviors?: Evidence using the Vietnam draft as an instrument for college education pp. 877-895

Damien de Walque

Education and smoking: Were Vietnam war draft avoiders also more likely to avoid smoking? pp. 896-926

Franque Grimard and Daniel Parent

Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions pp. 927-949

Ahmed Khwaja, Dan Silverman and Frank Sloan

Fraternity membership and binge drinking pp. 950-967

Jeffrey DeSimone

Do food stamps cause obesity?: Evidence from immigrant experience pp. 968-991

Neeraj Kaushal

Multi-attribute utility function or statistical inference models: A comparison of health state valuation models using the HUI2 health state classification system pp. 992-1002

Katherine Stevens, Christopher McCabe, John Brazier and Jennifer Roberts

Tests of utility independence when health varies over time pp. 1003-1013

Anne Spencer and Angela Robinson

Specialist payment schemes and patient selection in private and public hospitals pp. 1014-1026

Donald Wright

Optimal wages in the market for nurses: An analysis based on Heyes' model pp. 1027-1030

Lowell Taylor

Optimal wages in the market for nurses pp. 1031-1033

Anthony Heyes

Worker sorting, compensating differentials and health insurance: Evidence from displaced workers pp. 1034-1056

Steven Lehrer and Nuno Sousa Pereira

Liability, insurance and medical practice pp. 1057-1070

Paul Fenn, Alastair Gray and Neil Rickman

Volume 26, issue 4, 2007

The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China pp. 659-681

Yuyu Chen and Li-An Zhou

Explaining China's regional health expenditures using LM-type unit root tests pp. 682-698

Win Lin Chou

Quality incentives for GPs in a regulated market pp. 699-720

Martin Karlsson

Primary physician services--List size and primary physicians' service production pp. 721-741

Jostein Grytten and Rune Sorensen

The impact of budgets for gatekeeping physicians on patient satisfaction: Evidence from fundholding pp. 742-762

Mark Dusheiko, Hugh Gravelle, Ning Yu and Stephen Campbell

"It wasn't me, it was them!" Social influence in risky behavior by adolescents pp. 763-784

Andrew Clark and Youenn Loheac

Economic evaluation of services for a National Health Scheme: The case for a fairness-based framework pp. 785-799

Jeff Richardson and John McKie

Benefit efficient statistical distributions on patient lists pp. 800-820

Jan Ubøe and Jostein Lillestøl

The earnings of informal carers: Wage differentials and opportunity costs pp. 821-841

Axel Heitmueller and Kirsty Inglis

Mental health expenditure in England: A spatial panel approach pp. 842-864

Francesco Moscone, Martin Knapp and Elisa Tosetti

Volume 26, issue 3, 2007

Effects of infertility insurance mandates on fertility pp. 431-446

Lucie Schmidt

Two-tier charging strategies in public hospitals: Implications for intra-hospital resource allocation and equity of access to hospital services pp. 447-462

Barbara McPake, Kara Hanson and Christopher Adam

Exploring preference anomalies in double bounded contingent valuation pp. 463-482

Verity Watson and Mandy Ryan

HIV prevalence and poverty in Africa: Micro- and macro-econometric evidences applied to Burkina Faso pp. 483-504

Jean-Pierre Lachaud

Do health sector reforms have their intended impacts?: The World Bank's Health VIII project in Gansu province, China pp. 505-535

Adam Wagstaff and Shengchao Yu

The chicken or the egg?: Endogeneity in labour market participation of informal carers in England pp. 536-559

Axel Heitmueller

Moral hazard in nursing home use pp. 560-577

David C. Grabowski and Jonathan Gruber

Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use pp. 578-596

Jan C. van Ours and Jenny Williams

Modelling SF-6D health state preference data using a nonparametric Bayesian method pp. 597-612

Samer A. Kharroubi, John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts and Anthony O'Hagan

Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals pp. 613-642

Kurt Brekke, Ingrid Konigbauer and Odd Rune Straume

Rationality and drug use: An experimental approach pp. 643-658

Serge Blondel, Youenn Loheac and Stephane Rinaudo

Volume 26, issue 2, 2007

The child health/family income gradient: Evidence from England pp. 213-232

Alison Currie, Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

Competition among differentiated health plans under adverse selection pp. 233-250

Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

What should (public) health insurance cover? pp. 251-262

Michael Hoel

The market for elective surgery: Joint estimation of supply and demand pp. 263-285

Stephen Martin, Nigel Rice, Rowena Jacobs and Peter Smith

Advertising and generic market entry pp. 286-305

Ingrid Konigbauer

Why do women participate in the English cervical cancer screening programme? pp. 306-325

David K. Whynes, Zoe Philips and Mark Avis

Medicare balance billing restrictions: Impacts on physicians and beneficiaries pp. 326-341

Robin McKnight

Do religious nonprofit and for-profit organizations respond differently to financial incentives? The hospice industry pp. 342-357

Richard Lindrooth and Burton A. Weisbrod

The earnings of U.S. health economists pp. 358-372

John Cawley and Michael Morrisey

Insurance choice and tax-preferred health savings accounts pp. 373-399

James Cardon and Mark Showalter

The effects of multi-hospital systems on hospital prices pp. 400-413

Glenn Melnick and Emmett Keeler

Health inequality and non-monotonicity of the health related social welfare function pp. 414-421

Indranil Dutta

In response to Indranil Dutta, "Health inequality and non-monotonicity of the health related social welfare function" pp. 422-425

Ignacio Abasolo and Aki Tsuchiya

Health inequality and non-monotonicity of the health related social welfare function: A rejoinder pp. 426-429

Indranil Dutta

Volume 26, issue 1, 2007

Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries pp. 1-24

Andrew Leigh and Christopher Jencks

Predictability and predictiveness in health care spending pp. 25-48

Randall Ellis and Thomas G. McGuire

Money and mental wellbeing: A longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins pp. 49-60

Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald

Cigarette smoking and self-control pp. 61-81

Kamhon Kan

The economic consequences of health shocks: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 82-100

Adam Wagstaff

Does managed health care reduce health care disparities between minorities and Whites? pp. 101-121

Ana Balsa, Zhun Cao and Thomas G. McGuire

Efficient computation of partial expected value of sample information using Bayesian approximation pp. 122-148

Alan Brennan and Samer A. Kharroubi

Gatekeeping in health care pp. 149-170

Kurt Brekke, Robert Nuscheler and Odd Rune Straume

Best-worst scaling: What it can do for health care research and how to do it pp. 171-189

Terry N. Flynn, Jordan J. Louviere, Tim J. Peters and Joanna Coast

Geographically differentiated pay in the labour market for nurses pp. 190-212

Robert F. Elliott, Ada Ma, Anthony Scott, David Bell and Elizabeth Roberts