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 16, issue 6, 1997

Theories of justice and their implications for priority setting in health care pp. 625-639

Jan Abel Olsen

Valuing morbidity: An integration of the willingness-to-pay and health-status index literatures pp. 641-665

F. Reed Jhonson, Erin E. Fries and Spencer Banzhaf

Measurement of consumer-patient preferences using a hybrid contingent valuation method pp. 667-683

Richard M. O'Conor and Glenn Blomquist

Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review pp. 685-702

Sudhir Anand and Kara Hanson

Understanding DALYs pp. 703-730

Christopher Murray and Arnab K. Acharya

The time trade-off: A note on the effect of lifetime reallocation of consumption and discounting pp. 731-739

Paul Dolan and Michael Jones-Lee

A bootstrap approach to medical decision analysis pp. 741-747

Stephen T. Mennemeyer and Louis P. Cyr

On valuing morbidity, cost-effectiveness analysis, and being rude pp. 749-757

Donald Kenkel

Volume 16, issue 5, 1997

Progressivity, horizontal equity and reranking in health care finance: a decomposition analysis for the Netherlands pp. 499-516

Adam Wagstaff and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Contracts and purchaser-provider relationships in community care pp. 517-542

Julien Forder

Adverse selection and the purchase of Medigap insurance by the elderly pp. 543-562

Susan L. Ettner

HYE and TTO: What is the difference? pp. 563-578

Gwendolyn C. Morrison

Contractual choice in the managed health care market An empirical analysis pp. 579-588

Ivan Csaba and Paul Fenn

Is the valuation of a QALY gained independent of age? Some empirical evidence pp. 589-599

Magnus Johannesson and Per-Olov Johansson

QALYs and HYEs Spotting the differences pp. 601-608

Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch

On the use of market prices to evaluate medical treatments pp. 609-615

Per-Olov Johansson

A clarificatory note on 'Valuing health states: a comparison of methods' pp. 617-617

Paul Dolan

Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance: comment pp. 619-622

J. Paul Leigh and Michael M. Ward

Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance: Reply pp. 623-624

Laurence C. Baker and Alan Krueger

Volume 16, issue 4, 1997

The effect of a private sector on the waiting time in a national health service pp. 381-396

Tor Iversen

Altruism or moral hazard: The impact of hospital uncompensated care pools pp. 397-416

Darrell J. Gaskin

Hospital-insurer bargaining: An empirical investigation of appendectomy pricing pp. 417-434

John M. Brooks, Avi Dor and Herbert S. Wong

Genetic information and investment in human capital pp. 435-452

Hakan Holm

The effect of HMOs on fee-for-service health care expenditures: Evidence from Medicare pp. 453-481

Laurence C. Baker

Too many for too few? Efficiency among dentists working in private practice in Norway pp. 483-497

Jostein Grytten and Dag Morten Dalen

Volume 16, issue 3, 1997

Testing the HMO competitive strategy: An analysis of its impact on medical care resources pp. 261-286

Steven Hill and Barbara Wolfe

Taxation, smuggling and demand for cigarettes in Canada: Evidence from time-series data pp. 287-301

John Galbraith and Murray Kaiserman

Optimal non-linear health insurance pp. 303-321

Ake Blomqvist

Do fee descriptors influence treatment choices in general practice? A multilevel discrete choice model pp. 323-342

Anthony Scott and Alan Shiell

Willingness to pay for poison control centers pp. 343-357

Kathryn A. Phillips, Rick K. Homan, Harold S. Luft, Patricia H. Hiatt, Kent R. Olson, Thomas E. Kearney and Stuart E. Heard

Price, tobacco control policies and smoking among young adults pp. 359-373

Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

Worker demand for health insurance in the non-group market: A note on the calculation of welfare loss pp. 375-380

Michael Chernew, Kevin Frick and Catherine G. McLaughlin

Volume 16, issue 2, 1997

Medical insurance and the use of health care services by the elderly pp. 129-154

Michael Hurd and Kathleen McGarry

Standard gamble, time trade-off and rating scale: Experimental results on the ranking properties of QALYs pp. 155-175

Han Bleichrodt and Magnus Johannesson

Medicare's disproportionate share adjustment and the cost of low-income patients pp. 177-190

Gerald F. Kominski and Stephen H. Long

HMOs, moral hazard and cost shifting in workers' compensation pp. 191-206

Richard J. Butler, Robert P. Hartwig and Harold Gardner

Is health care really a luxury? pp. 207-229

Ake Blomqvist and Richard (Robin) Carter

The effect of price on switching among health plans pp. 231-247

Thomas Buchmueller and Paul J. Feldstein

The friction cost method: A comment pp. 249-255

Magnus Johannesson and Goran Karlsson

Reply to Johanneson's and Karlsson's comment pp. 257-259

Marc A. Koopmanschap, Frans F. H. Rutten, B. Martin van Ineveld and Leona van Roijen

Volume 16, issue 1, 1997

Economic foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 1-31

Alan M. Garber and Charles E. Phelps

Accounting for future costs in medical cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 33-64

David Meltzer

Health utility indices and equity considerations pp. 65-91

Han Bleichrodt

Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons pp. 93-112

Eddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff, Han Bleichrodt, Samuel Calonge, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Michael Gerfin, Jose Geurts, Lorna Gross, Unto Hakkinen and Robert E. Leu

The importance of patient preferences for comorbidities in cost-effectiveness analyses pp. 113-119

Ryan A. Harris and Robert Nease

Theoretical issues in cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 121-128

Milton C. Weinstein and Willard Manning

Volume 15, issue 6, 1996

Scale and scope economies among health maintenance organizations pp. 657-684

Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman, Jon B. Christianson and John Engberg

Economies of scale and scope as an explanation of merger and output diversification activities in the health maintenance organization industry pp. 685-713

Ruth S. Given

Externalities in hospitals and physician adoption of a new surgical technology: An exploratory analysis pp. 715-734

JoseJ. Escarce

An empirical examination of the implications of assortative matching on the incidence of HIV pp. 735-749

William Dow and Tomas Philipson

Smoking cessation and health: A comment pp. 751-754

Amir Shmueli

Smoking cessation and health: A response pp. 755-759

Andrew Jones

Volume 15, issue 5, 1996

State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment pp. 513-553

Rebecca Blank, Christine C. George and Rebecca A. London

The effect of Medicaid abortion funding restrictions on abortions, pregnancies and births pp. 555-578

Phillip Levine, Amy B. Trainor and David Zimmerman

State reproductive policies and adolescent pregnancy resolution: The case of parental involvement laws pp. 579-607

Ted Joyce and Robert Kaestner

Health insurance: The tradeoff between risk pooling and moral hazard pp. 609-639

Willard Manning and M. Susan Marquis

Mathematical programming for the efficient allocation of health care resources pp. 641-653

Aaron A. Stinnett and A. David Paltiel

Volume 15, issue 4, 1996

Adverse selection and regulation in health insurance markets pp. 387-408

Werner Neudeck and Konrad Podczeck

Employment, unemployment, and problem drinking pp. 409-434

John Mullahy and Jody Sindelar

Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities pp. 435-454

Christopher Ruhm

The effects of enriched prenatal care services on Medicaid birth outcomes in New Jersey pp. 455-476

Nancy E. Reichman and Maryanne J. Florio

The choice of medical providers in rural Benin: A comparison of discrete choice models pp. 477-498

Denis Bolduc, Guy Lacroix and Christophe Muller

Do cigarette producers price-discriminate by state? An empirical analysis of local cigarette pricing and taxation pp. 499-512

Theodore E. Keeler, Teh-wei Hu, Paul G. Barnett, Willard Manning and Hai-Yen Sung

Volume 15, issue 3, 1996

Hospital response to prospective payment: Moral hazard, selection, and practice-style effects pp. 257-277

Randall Ellis and Thomas G. McGuire

Explaining variations in inpatient length of stay in the National Health Service pp. 279-304

Stephen Martin and Peter Smith

Specialized service offerings and patients' choice of hospital: The case of cardiac catheterization pp. 305-332

Dominic Hodgkin

Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana pp. 333-357

Victor Lavy, John Strauss, Duncan Thomas and Philippe De Vreyer

A note on the estimation of the equity-efficiency trade-off for QALYs pp. 359-368

Magnus Johannesson and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Uncertainty and investment in health pp. 369-376

Fwu-Ranq Chang

Consumer utility, social welfare, and genetic testing. A response to "Genetic testing: an economic and contractarian analysis" pp. 377-380

Jane Hall

Genetic testing and human welfare: reply to Hall pp. 381-384

Alexander Tabarrok

Volume 15, issue 2, 1996

Market structure and the role of consumer information in the physician services industry: An empirical test pp. 139-160

Herbert S. Wong

What are the costs of queuing for hip fracture surgery in Canada? pp. 161-185

Barton Hamilton, Vivian H. Hamilton and Nancy E. Mayo

Decision making in quasi-markets: A pedagogic analysis pp. 187-208

Philip R. Jones and John G. Cullis

Valuing health states: A comparison of methods pp. 209-231

P. Dolan, C. Gudex, P. Kind and A. Williams

Physician demand for leisure: implications for cesarean section rates pp. 233-242

Henry Brown

Mark Pauly on welfare economics: Normative rabbits from positive hats pp. 243-251

Anthony Culyer and Robert G. Evans

Reply to Anthony J. Culyer and Robert G. Evans pp. 253-254

Mark V. Pauly

Volume 15, issue 1, 1996

Payment source and the cost of hospital care: Evidence from a multiproduct cost function with multiple payers pp. 1-21

Avi Dor and Dean E. Farley

The effect of Medicaid reimbursement on quality of care in nursing homes pp. 23-48

Joel W. Cohen and William D. Spector

Time preference, the discounted utility model and health pp. 49-66

Han Bleichrodt and Amiram Gafni

New evidence on the relationship between income and health pp. 67-85

Susan L. Ettner

Smoking, health knowledge, and anti-smoking campaigns: An empirical study in Taiwan pp. 87-104

Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Lee-Lan Yen, Jin-Tan Liu and Chyongchiou Jeng Lin

On the value of changes in life expectancy pp. 105-113

Per-Olov Johansson

Modelling programme costs in economic evaluation pp. 115-125

Paul Fenn, Alistair McGuire, Martin Backhouse and David Jones

The determinants of health care expenditure: A cointegration approach pp. 127-137

Paul Hansen and Alan King