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 14, issue 5, 1995

The creation of economic efficiencies in hospital mergers pp. 507-530

William J. Lynk

Medical costs in workers' compensation insurance pp. 531-549

Laurence C. Baker and Alan Krueger

Price regulation in the pharmaceutical industry: Prescription or placebo? pp. 551-565

Thomas Abbott

Nurses' labor supply: Participation, hours of work, and discontinuities in the supply function pp. 567-582

V. L. Phillips

Economic conditions and alcohol problems pp. 583-603

Christopher Ruhm

Volume 14, issue 4, 1995

The effects of benefit design and managed care on health care costs pp. 401-418

Dana Goldman, Susan D. Hosek, Lloyd S. Dixon and Elizabeth M. Sloss

Optimal medical treatment under asymmetric information pp. 419-441

ChoongSup Lee

Monopsony power and relative wages in the labor market for nurses pp. 443-476

Barry Hirsch and Edward J. Schumacher

Optimal times of transfer between therapies: A mathematical framework pp. 477-490

David K. Whynes

Labour supply and saving decisions with uncertainty over sickness pp. 491-504

Owen O'Donnell

Volume 14, issue 3, 1995

Physician ownership of ancillary services: Indirect demand inducement or quality assurance? pp. 263-289

Jean M. Mitchell and Tim Sass

Uncertain demand, the structure of hospital costs, and the cost of empty hospital beds pp. 291-317

Martin Gaynor and Gerard F. Anderson

Is moderate alcohol use related to wages? Evidence from four worksites pp. 319-344

Michael French and Gary A. Zarkin

Priority setting in health care: An axiomatic bargaining approach pp. 345-360

Derek Clark

Estimating treatment cost functions for progressive diseases: A multiproduct approach with an application to breast cancer pp. 361-385

James R. G. Butler, Colin M. Furnival and Ruth F. G. Hart

The welfare loss of disease and the theory of taxation pp. 387-395

Tomas Philipson

Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs. A response pp. 397-398

Ken Buckingham

Volume 14, issue 2, 1995

The demand for alcohol: The differential response to price pp. 123-148

Willard Manning, Linda Blumberg and Lawrence H. Moulton

Consumer information surplus and adverse selection in competitive health insurance markets: An empirical study pp. 149-169

Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven and ReneC. J. A. van Vliet

The friction cost method for measuring indirect costs of disease pp. 171-189

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

Choosing between public and private health-care: A case study of malaria treatment in Brazil pp. 191-205

Charles de Bartolome and Stephen A. Vosti

Supplier inducement in a public health care system pp. 207-229

Jostein Grytten, Fredrik Carlsen and Rune Sorensen

A model of demand for effective care pp. 231-238

Emmett B. Keeler

The uncertain demand for medical care a comment on Emmett Keeler pp. 239-242

Mark McClellan

A problem with consumer surplus measures of the cost of practice variations pp. 243-251

David Dranove

Welfare loss from variations: further considerations pp. 253-260

Charles E. Phelps

Volume 14, issue 1, 1995

The myth of the HYE pp. 1-7

Graham Loomes

Quality-adjusted life-years versus healthy-years equivalents -- A comment pp. 9-16

Magnus Johannesson

QALYs and HYEs: Under what conditions are they equivalent? pp. 17-37

Han Bleichrodt

QALYs versus HYEs: A reply to Gafni, Birch and Mehrez pp. 39-45

Anthony Culyer and Adam Wagstaff

Worker demand for health insurance in the non-group market pp. 47-63

M. Susan Marquis and Stephen H. Long

Wealth from optimal health pp. 65-79

Per-Olov Johansson and Karl-Gustaf Lofgren

The effect of market structure on HMO premiums pp. 81-105

Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman and Jon B. Christianson

A note on entry by small hospitals pp. 107-113

John Simpson

HMOs, market competition, and premium cost pp. 115-119

Harold S. Luft

Volume 13, issue 4, 1994

Returns to R&D on new drug introductions in the 1980s pp. 383-406

Henry G. Grabowski and John M. Vernon

A new test for supplier-inducement and application to the Canadian market for dental care pp. 407-431

Joseph Schaafsma

Physician labor supply: Do income effects matter? pp. 433-453

John Rizzo and David Blumenthal

Health inputs and child mortality: Malaysia pp. 455-489

Constantijn Panis and Lee Lillard

Editorial: Response to Pauly on a re-examination of the meaning and importance of supplier-induced demand pp. 491-494

Roberta Labelle, Greg Stoddart and Thomas Rice

Reply to Roberta Labelle, Greg Stoddart and Thomas Rice pp. 495-496

Mark V. Pauly

Erratum to "The effect of competitive pressure on charity: hospital responses to price shopping in California [Journal of Health Economics 13 (1994) 183-212] pp. 503-503

Jonathan Gruber

Volume 13, issue 3, 1994

Measuring hospital efficiency with frontier cost functions pp. 255-280

Stephen Zuckerman, Jack Hadley and Lisa Iezzoni

Cost and efficiency in nursing homes: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 281-300

Donald Vitaliano and Mark Toren

Nursing home care in The Netherlands: a nonparametric efficiency analysis pp. 301-316

Peter Kooreman

Frontier estimation: How useful a tool for health economics? pp. 317-322

Joseph Newhouse

What do stochastic frontier cost functions tell us about inefficiency? pp. 323-328

Jonathan Skinner

Non-minimum cost functions and the stochastic frontier: On applications to health care providers pp. 329-334

Avi Dor

The role of efficiency measurement in hospital rate setting pp. 335-340

Jack Hadley and Stephen Zuckerman

Frontier analysis: A reply to Skinner, Dor and Newhouse pp. 341-343

Donald Vitaliano and Mark Toren

Data envelopment analysis and parametric frontier estimation: complementary tools pp. 345-346

Peter Kooreman

A re-examination of the meaning and importance of supplier-induced demand pp. 347-368

Roberta Labelle, Greg Stoddart and Thomas Rice

Editorial: A re-examination of the meaning and importance of supplier-induced demand pp. 369-372

Mark V. Pauly

Workplace drug abuse policy: A comment pp. 373-378

Richard A. Hirth

Reply to Hirth pp. 379-379

Thomas G. McGuire and Christopher Ruhm

Volume 13, issue 2, 1994

Contracts and supply assurance in the UK health care market pp. 125-144

Paul Fenn, Neil Rickman and Alistair McGuire

Do case-mix adjusted nursing home reimbursements actually reflect costs? Minnesota's experience pp. 145-162

John Nyman and Robert A. Connor

Market work, wages, and men's health pp. 163-182

Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, Brent Kreider and Mark Stone

The effect of competitive pressure on charity: Hospital responses to price shopping in California pp. 183-211

Jonathan Gruber

The hazard of starting smoking: Estimates from a split population duration model pp. 213-230

Stratford Douglas and Govind Hariharan

Agency in health care with an endogenous budget constraint pp. 231-251

Derek Clark and Jan Abel Olsen

Volume 13, issue 1, 1994

Payment levels and hospital response to prospective payment pp. 1-29

Dominic Hodgkin and Thomas G. McGuire

The threat of 'cream skimming' in the post-reform NHS pp. 31-60

Manos Matsaganis and Howard Glennerster

Physician-induced demand for childbirths pp. 61-73

David Dranove and Paul Wehner

Genetic testing: An economic and contractarian analysis pp. 75-91

Alexander Tabarrok

Health, addiction, social interaction and the decision to quit smoking pp. 93-110

Andrew Jones

Altruism and the value of statistical life: Empirical implications pp. 111-118

Per-Olov Johansson

Adam Smith as health economist, redux. Professor Smith on the market for physician services pp. 119-122

Martin Gaynor