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 85, issue C, 2022

Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants

Marit Hinnosaar and Elaine M. Liu

Efficient use of immunosuppressants for kidney transplants

Eun Jeong Heo, Sunghoon Hong and Youngsub Chun

Family doctor responses to changes in target stringency under financial incentives

Anna Wilding, Luke Munford, Bruce Guthrie, Evangelos Kontopantelis and Matt Sutton

Do Cellphone Bans Save Lives? Evidence From Handheld Laws on Traffic Fatalities

Nicholas Wright and Ernest Dorilas

Islamic law and investments in children: Evidence from the Sharia introduction in Nigeria

Marco Alfano

Tiered cost sharing and health care demand

Calvin A. Ackley

A systematic examination of quality-adjusted price index alternatives for medical care using claims data

Seidu Dauda, Abe Dunn and Anne Hall

Playing defense? Health care in the era of Covid

Edward N. Okeke

Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopaedic surgeons?

Laurie Rachet-Jacquet

Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments

Alex J Turner, Igor Francetic, Ruth Watkinson, Stephanie Gillibrand and Matt Sutton

The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China

Lipeng Chen and Wanlin Liu

Global drug diffusion and innovation with the medicines patent pool

Lucy Xiaolu Wang

A discrete choice model implementing gist-based categorization of alternatives, with applications to patient preferences for cancer screening and treatment

Joffre Swait and E.W. de Bekker-Grob

Volume 84, issue C, 2022

Unintended consequences of welfare reform: Evidence from birthweight of Aboriginal children in Australia

Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer and Sven Silburn

Trading spaces: Medicare's regulatory spillovers on treatment setting for non-Medicare patients

Michael Geruso and Michael R. Richards

Price Indices and the Value of Innovation with Heterogenous Patients

Claudio Lucarelli, Sean Nicholson and Nicholas Tilipman

Preferences for in-kind and in-cash home care insurance

Jochem de Bresser, Marike Knoef and Raun van Ooijen

Valuing non-marginal changes in mortality and morbidity risk

Daniel Herrera-Araujo, Christoph Rheinberger and James Hammitt

Endogenous quality investments in the U.S. hospital market

Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Ody and Amanda Starc

School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes

Peter Fredriksson, Kristiina Huttunen and Björn Öckert

The deterrent effect of tort law: Evidence from medical malpractice reform

Zenon Zabinski and Bernard S. Black

Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

Do subsidized nursing homes and home care teams reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from Portugal

Ana Moura

The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O’Connell, Martin, Kate Smith and Rebekah Stroud

Coinsurance vs. co-payments: Reimbursement rules for a monopolistic medical product with competitive health insurers

Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

Prevention, treatment, and palliative care: The relative value of health improvements under alternative evaluation frameworks

James Hammitt

Lead in drinking water and birth outcomes: A tale of two water treatment plants

Dhaval M. Dave and Muzhe Yang

Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia

Manuel Serrano-Alarcón, Helena Hernández-Pizarro, Guillem López-Casasnovas and Catia Nicodemo

The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision

Michelle Marcus and Katherine G. Yewell

The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Joseph Price and Dahai Yue

Volume 83, issue C, 2022

Information, relative skill, and technology abandonment

Bingxiao Wu and Guy David

Does unemployment worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour, and selection

Elisabetta De Cao, Barry McCormick and Catia Nicodemo

The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Krzysztof Karbownik

Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs

Kurt Brekke, Dag Morten Dalen and Odd Rune Straume

A bit of salt, a trace of life: Gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Zichen Deng and Maarten Lindeboom

Effects of dialogue meetings on sickness absence—Evidence from a large field experiment

Matteo Alpino, Karen Hauge, Andreas Kotsadam and Simen Markussen

Measuring quality effects in equilibrium

Seth Richards-Shubik, Mark S. Roberts and Julie M. Donohue

Non-monetary incentives for tobacco prevention among youth in Indonesia

Margaret Triyana and Justin S. White

Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery

Asbjørn G. Andersen, Andreas Kotsadam and Vincent Somville

The role of paid family leave in labor supply responses to a spouse's disability or health shock

Priyanka Anand, Laura Dague and Kathryn Wagner

Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health

Libertad Gonzalez and Sofia Trommlerová

Effects of violent media content: Evidence from the rise of the UFC

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell

Volume 82, issue C, 2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on health care utilization: Evidence from county-level medical claims and cellphone data

Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood, Dena M. Bravata, Megan Pera and Christopher Whaley

Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets

Ziad Ghandour, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Vaccination strategies and transmission of COVID-19: Evidence across advanced countries

Dongwoo Kim and Young Jun Lee

Girls unwanted – The role of parents’ child-specific sex preference for children’s early mental development

Cara Ebert and Sebastian Vollmer

What drives innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé

Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality

Christopher Cronin and William Evans

Do disability benefits hinder work resumption after recovery?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller and Roger Prudon

Ordeal mechanisms, information, and the cost-effectiveness of strategies to provide subsidized eyeglasses

Sean Sylvia, Xiaochen Ma, Yaojiang Shi and Scott Rozelle

Drinking water, fracking, and infant health

Elaine Hill and Lala Ma

How scheduling systems with automated appointment reminders improve health clinic efficiency

Claire E Boone, Pablo Celhay, Paul Gertler, Tadeja Gracner and Josefina Rodriguez

A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity

Holger Strulik

Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal

Roxanne Kovacs and Mylene Lagarde