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 18, issue 6, 1999

Life-cycle preferences over consumption and health: when is cost-effectiveness analysis equivalent to cost-benefit analysis? pp. 681-708

Han Bleichrodt and John Quiggin

Premium subsidies for health insurance: excessive coverage vs. adverse selection pp. 709-725

Thomas Selden

Optimal social health insurance with supplementary private insurance pp. 727-745

Alessandro Petretto

Estimating the quality of care in hospitals using instrumental variables pp. 747-767

Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robert Town

The complementarity of teen smoking and drinking pp. 769-793

Thomas Dee

The price elasticity of opium in Taiwan, 1914-1942 pp. 795-810

Jin-Long Liu, Jin-Tan Liu, James Hammitt and Shin-Yi Chou

The economics of moral hazard revisited pp. 811-824

John Nyman

Volume 18, issue 5, 1999

The menu-setting problem and subsidized prices: drug formulary illustration pp. 523-550

Todd Olmstead and Richard Zeckhauser

Estimating parametric relationships between health description and health valuation with an application to the EuroQol EQ-5D pp. 551-570

Jan J. V. Busschbach, Joseph McDonnell, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot and Ben A. van Hout

The impact of managed care on the existence of equilibrium in health insurance markets pp. 571-590

Michael E. Chernew and Kevin D. Frick

Cost and quality trends under managed care: is there a learning curve in behavioral health carve-out plans? pp. 591-602

Roland Sturm

The distribution of health and income: a theoretical framework pp. 603-620

Paul Contoyannis and Martin Forster

The profitability of vertical mergers between hospitals and physician practices pp. 621-652

Esther Gal-Or

Comparative dynamics in a health investment model pp. 653-658

Christoph Eisenring

A note on 'Economic conditions and alcohol problems' pp. 659-668

Donald Freeman

Increased capacity may exacerbate rationing problems: with applications to medical care pp. 669-678

Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Volume 18, issue 4, 1999

Addiction and discounting1 pp. 393-407

Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen

Firm behavior in a market with addiction: the case of cigarettes pp. 409-427

Mark Showalter

An econometric analysis of smoking prevalence among lone mothers pp. 429-441

Richard Dorsett

Would you like suspenders to go with that belt? An analysis of optimal combinations of cost sharing and managed care pp. 443-458

Mark V. Pauly and Scott D. Ramsey

Cost-sharing and pharmaceutical utilisation and expenditure in Russia pp. 459-472

Andrew Street, Andrew Jones and Aya Furuta

Physician fees and procedure intensity: the case of cesarean delivery pp. 473-490

Jon Gruber, John Kim and Dina Mayzlin

The impact of malpractice fears on cesarean section rates pp. 491-522

Lisa Dubay, Robert Kaestner and Timothy Waidmann

Volume 18, issue 3, 1999

Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons1 pp. 263-290

Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Hattem van der Burg, Samuel Calonge, Terkel Christiansen, Guido Citoni, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Mike Gerfin, Lorna Gross and Unto Hakinnen

The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries pp. 291-313

Eddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, Hattem van der Burg, Terkel Christiansen, Guido Citoni, Rita Di Biase, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Mike Gerfin, Lorna Gross and Unto Hakinnen

Capitation contracts: access and quality pp. 315-340

Hugh Gravelle

The irrelevance of inference: a decision-making approach to the stochastic evaluation of health care technologies pp. 341-364

Karl Claxton

On the use of survival analysis techniques to estimate medical care costs pp. 365-380

Ruth D. Etzioni, Eric J. Feuer, Sean D. Sullivan, Danyu Lin, Chengcheng Hu and Scott D. Ramsey

On aggregating QALYs: a comment on Dolan pp. 381-386

Magnus Johannesson

Drawing a veil over the measurement of social welfare--a reply to Johannesson pp. 387-390

Paul Dolan

Volume 18, issue 2, 1999

The value of health insurance: the access motive pp. 141-152

John Nyman

Modeling risk using generalized linear models pp. 153-171

David K. Blough, Carolyn W. Madden and Mark C. Hornbrook

Health problems as determinants of retirement: Are self-rated measures endogenous? pp. 173-193

Debra Dwyer and Olivia Mitchell

Medical savings accounts: microsimulation results from a model with adverse selection pp. 195-218

Daniel Zabinski, Thomas Selden, John F. Moeller and Jessica S. Banthin

Consumer information and competition between nonprofit and for-profit nursing homes pp. 219-240

Richard A. Hirth

The effects of short-term variation in abortion funding on pregnancy outcomes pp. 241-257

Philip J Cook, Allan M. Parnell, Michael J. Moore and Deanna Pagnini

Volume 18, issue 1, 1999

An economic theory of cigarette addiction pp. 1-29

Steven Suranovic, Robert Goldfarb and Thomas Leonard

Impact of augmented prenatal care on birth outcomes of Medicaid recipients in New York City pp. 31-67

Ted Joyce

The changing effects of competition on non-profit and for-profit hospital pricing behavior pp. 69-86

Emmett B. Keeler, Glenn Melnick and Jack Zwanziger

Competition and pricing by nonprofit hospitals: a reassessment of Lynk's analysis pp. 87-98

David Dranove and Richard Ludwick

Price and profit pp. 99-116

William J. Lynk and Lynette R. Neumann

A note on validating Wagstaff and van Doorslaer's health measure in the analysis of inequalities in health pp. 117-124

Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson, L. Lundberg and D. Isacson

Adjustment costs, withdrawal effects, and cigarette addiction pp. 125-137

Andrew Jones

Volume 17, issue 6, 1998

The effects of regulation and competition in the NHS internal market: the case of general practice fundholder prices pp. 645-673

Carol Propper, Deborah Wilson and Neil Soderlund

Physician response to Medicare fee reductions: changes in the volume of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries in the Medicare and private sectors pp. 675-699

Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip

Incentives for cooperation in quality improvement among hospitals--the impact of the reimbursement system pp. 701-728

K. Kesteloot and N. Voet

Determinants of managed care penetration pp. 729-745

David Dranove, Carol J. Simon and William D. White

The labour market costs of community care1 pp. 747-765

Fiona Carmichael and Sue Charles

Cost-benefit analysis and mammographic screening: a travel cost approach pp. 767-787

Philip M. Clarke

Volume 17, issue 5, 1998

Workplace performance effects from chronic depression and its treatment pp. 511-535

Ernst R. Berndt, Stan N. Finkelstein, Paul Greenberg, Robert H. Howland, Alison Keith, A. John Rush, James Russell and Martin B. Keller

Creaming, skimping and dumping: provider competition on the intensive and extensive margins1 pp. 537-555

Randall Ellis

Does increasing the beer tax reduce marijuana consumption? pp. 557-585

Rosalie Pacula

Agency in health care. Examining patients' preferences for attributes of the doctor-patient relationship pp. 587-605

Sandra Vick and Anthony Scott

QALYs versus HYEs--what's right and what's wrong. A review of the controversy pp. 607-625

Walter Ried

Time spent on waiting lists for medical care: an insurance approach pp. 627-644

Magnus Johannesson, Per-Olov Johansson and Tore Söderqvist

Volume 17, issue 4, 1998

Comparative dynamic analysis of the full Grossman model pp. 383-425

Walter Ried

The demand for cocaine by young adults: a rational addiction approach pp. 427-474

Michael Grossman and Frank Chaloupka

Alternative approaches to valuing intangible health losses: the evidence for multiple sclerosis1 pp. 475-497

Frank Sloan, W Viscusi, Harrell W. Chesson, Christopher J. Conover and Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein

On optimal length of life pp. 499-509

Michael Grossman

Volume 17, issue 3, 1998

Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics pp. 247-281

John Mullahy

The logged dependent variable, heteroscedasticity, and the retransformation problem pp. 283-295

Willard Manning

A model of the impact of reimbursement schemes on health plan choice pp. 297-320

Emmett B. Keeler, Grace Carter and Joseph Newhouse

Why did the SSI-disabled program grow so much? Disentangling the effect of Medicaid pp. 321-349

Aaron Yelowitz

Medicaid managed care and infant health pp. 351-368

Arik Levinson and Frank Ullman

Health care expenditures and GDP: panel data unit root test results pp. 369-376

Suzanne McCoskey and Thomas Selden

Health care expenditure and GDP: panel data unit root test results--comment pp. 377-381

Paul Hansen and Alan King

Volume 17, issue 2, 1998

Physician opportunity costs in physician practice cost functions pp. 129-151

Jose J. Escarce and Mark V. Pauly

The demand for health with uncertainty and insurance pp. 153-170

Bengt Liljas

The effect of uncertainty on the demand for medical care, health capital and wealth pp. 171-185

Gabriel Picone, Martín Uribe and R. Mark Wilson

Stochastic technology, production organization and costs pp. 187-210

V. K. Chetty

Evidence on the determinants of Canadian provincial government health expenditures: 1965-1991 pp. 211-228

Livio Di Matteo and Rosanna Di Matteo

Phobic disorder, psychotherapy, and risk-taking: an economic perspective pp. 229-243

Gideon Yaniv

Volume 17, issue 1, 1998

Contracting for health services when patient demand does not reflect quality pp. 1-19

Martin Chalkley and James Malcomson

Price regulation of pharmaceuticals in Canada pp. 21-38

Aslam H. Anis and Quan Wen

The measurement of individual utility and social welfare pp. 39-52

Paul Dolan

Alcohol use and wages: New results from the national household survey on drug abuse pp. 53-68

Gary A. Zarkin, Michael French, Thomas Mroz and Jeremy Bray

Economies of scale in non-revenue producing cost centers: Implications for hospital mergers pp. 69-83

David Dranove

The effects of low-pay and unemployment on psychological well-being: A logistic regression approach pp. 85-104

Ioannis Theodossiou

Do people shift their use of health services over time to take advantage of insurance? pp. 105-115

Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis and Jack Rodgers

Is there underinvestment in R & D about prevention? pp. 117-127

David Dranove