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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The demand for physician services: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 881-913: Bart Cockx and Carine Brasseur
Service-level selection by HMOs in Medicare pp. 915-931: Zhun Cao and Thomas G. McGuire
Welfare reform, labor supply, and health insurance in the immigrant population pp. 933-958: George Borjas
Welfare reform and health insurance coverage of low-income families pp. 959-981: Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal
Hospital consolidation and costs: another look at the evidence pp. 983-997: David Dranove and Richard Lindrooth
Stochastic demand, production responses and hospital costs pp. 999-1010: David Hughes and Alistair McGuire
Hospital quality choice and market structure in a regulated duopoly pp. 1011-1036: Arantza Beitia
A consistency test of the time trade-off pp. 1037-1052: Han Bleichrodt, Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades and Jose-Maria Abellan-Perpiñan
The effect of cigarette excise taxes on smoking before, during and after pregnancy pp. 1053-1072: Gregory Colman, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce
Health anxiety and patient behavior pp. 1073-1084: Botond Koszegi
Why did employee health insurance contributions rise? pp. 1085-1104: Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight
The link between public and private insurance and HIV-related mortality pp. 1105-1122: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Dana Goldman and Neeraj Sood

The effect of urban hospital closure on markets pp. 691-712: Richard Lindrooth, Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Gloria J. Bazzoli
Exploring the health-wealth nexus pp. 713-730: Jonathan Meer, Douglas Miller and Harvey Rosen
The integration of claims to health-care: a programming approach pp. 731-745: Paul Anand
A low-key social insurance reform--effects of multidisciplinary outpatient treatment for back pain patients in Norway pp. 747-762: Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmas and Egil Kjerstad
Supply-side cost sharing when patients and doctors collude pp. 763-780: Rhema Vaithianathan
The opportunity costs of informal care: does gender matter? pp. 781-803: Fiona Carmichael and Susan Charles
The effect of comorbidities on treatment decisions pp. 805-820: Han Bleichrodt, David Crainich and Louis Eeckhoudt
Estimating price elasticities when there is smuggling: the sensitivity of smoking to price in Canada pp. 821-842: Jonathan Gruber, Anindya Sen and Mark Stabile
The impact of tobacco control program expenditures on aggregate cigarette sales: 1981-2000 pp. 843-859: Matthew C. Farrelly, Terry F. Pechacek and Frank Chaloupka
Parental involvement laws and fertility behavior pp. 861-878: Phillip Levine

Modelling health, income and income inequality: the impact of income inequality on health and health inequality pp. 521-538: John Wildman
Is cannabis a stepping-stone for cocaine? pp. 539-554: Jan van Ours
A comparison of two methods for eliciting contingent valuations of colorectal cancer screening pp. 555-574: David K. Whynes, Emma Frew and Jane L. Wolstenholme
Resource allocation for control of infectious diseases in multiple independent populations: beyond cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 575-598: Margaret L. Brandeau, Gregory S. Zaric and Anke Richter
Public health care with waiting time: the role of supplementary private health care pp. 599-616: Michael Hoel and Erik Magnus Saether
GPs' payment contracts and their referral practice pp. 617-635: Begona Garcia Marinoso and Izabela Jelovac
Good times make you sick pp. 637-658: Christopher Ruhm
The internal consistency of the standard gamble: tests after adjusting for prospect theory pp. 659-674: Adam Oliver
Sickness and preventive medical behavior pp. 675-689: Stephen Wu

Moral hazard and adverse selection in Australian private hospitals: 1989-1990 pp. 331-359: Elizabeth Savage and Donald Wright
Choices, beliefs, and infectious disease dynamics pp. 361-377: M. Christopher Auld
Take some days off, why don't you?: Endogenous sick leave and pay pp. 379-402: John Douglas Skatun
Practice variation and physician-specific effects pp. 403-418: Jostein Grytten and Rune Sorensen
Cream-skimming, incentives for efficiency and payment system pp. 419-443: Pedro Barros
The validity of time trade-off values in calculating QALYs: constant proportional time trade-off versus the proportional heuristic pp. 445-458: Paul Dolan and Peep Stalmeier
Self-selection and moral hazard in Chilean health insurance pp. 459-476: Claudio Sapelli and Bernardita Vial
Maternal employment and overweight children pp. 477-504: Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher and Phillip Levine
A note on the effect of unemployment on mortality pp. 505-518: Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson

The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs pp. 151-185: Joseph DiMasi, Ronald W. Hansen and Henry G. Grabowski
Technological development and medical productivity: the diffusion of angioplasty in New York state pp. 187-217: David Cutler and Robert Huckman
Socio-economic inequality in ill-health amongst the elderly: Should one use current or permanent income? pp. 219-241: Tom Van Ourti
The effect of financial pressure on the quality of care in hospitals pp. 243-269: Yu-Chu Shen
Decomposing world health inequality pp. 271-293: Menno Pradhan, David Sahn and Stephen Younger
Income related inequalities in mental health in Great Britain: analysing the causes of health inequality over time pp. 295-312: John Wildman
Stationarity of health expenditures and GDP: evidence from panel unit root tests with heterogeneous structural breaks pp. 313-323: Todd Jewell, Junsoo Lee, Margie Tieslau and Mark Strazicich
New estimates of drug development costs pp. 325-330: Richard G. Frank

Competitive spillovers across non-profit and for-profit nursing homes pp. 1-22: David C. Grabowski and Richard A. Hirth
Enrollee mix, treatment intensity, and cost in competing indemnity and HMO plans pp. 23-45: Daniel Altman, David Cutler and Richard Zeckhauser
A game theoretic model of the relationship between prices and waiting times pp. 47-60: Michael G. Farnworth
Inequalities in self-reported health: validation of a new approach to measurement pp. 61-87: Eddy Van Doorslaer and Andrew Jones
Prejudice, clinical uncertainty and stereotyping as sources of health disparities pp. 89-116: Ana Balsa and Thomas G. McGuire
Alcohol dependence and the price of alcoholic beverages pp. 117-147: Susan Farrell, Willard Manning and Michael D. Finch