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 78, issue C, 2021

Supply-side variation in the use of emergency departments

Dan Zeltzer, Liran Einav, Avichai Chasid and Ran D. Balicer

Precautionary savings and shock-coping behaviors: Effects of promoting mobile bank savings on transactional sex in Kenya

Kelly Jones and Erick Gong

Identifying the effects of scientific information and recommendations on physicians’ prescribing behavior

Pierre Dubois and Tuba Tunçel

Does holding elections during a Covid-19 pandemic put the lives of politicians at risk?

Laurent Bach, Arthur Guillouzouic and Clément Malgouyres

The effects of self-assessed health: Dealing with and understanding misclassification bias

Linkun Chen, Philip M. Clarke, Dennis Petrie and Kevin Staub

Personal belief exemptions for school-entry vaccinations, vaccination rates, and academic achievement

Nicole L. Hair, Anja Gruber and Carly Urban

Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada

Alexander Karaivanov, Shih En Lu, Hitoshi Shigeoka, Cong Chen and Stephanie Pamplona

Willingness to pay for reductions in health risks under anticipated regret

Jiakun Zheng

Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England

Rowena Crawford, George Stoye and Ben Zaranko

When particulate matter strikes cities: Social disparities and health costs of air pollution

Matilde Giaccherini, Joanna Kopinska and Alessandro Palma

How important is the structure of school vaccine requirement opt-out provisions? Evidence from Washington, DC's HPV vaccine requirement

Brandyn Churchill

How do machine learning algorithms perform in predicting hospital choices? evidence from changing environments

Devesh Raval, Ted Rosenbaum and Nathan Wilson

Insurance expansions and hospital utilization: Relabeling and reabling?

Abe Dunn, Matthew Knepper and Seidu Dauda

Hospital report cards: Quality competition and patient selection

Yijuan Chen and Peter Sivey

The impact of childhood health shocks on parental labor supply

Tine L. Mundbjerg Eriksen, Amanda Gaulke, Niels Skipper and Jannet Svensson

Volume 77, issue C, 2021

How important is price variation between health insurers?

Stuart V. Craig, Keith Marzilli Ericson and Amanda Starc

Genetic testing and genetic discrimination: Public policy when insurance becomes “too expensive”

Lisa L. Posey and Paul D. Thistle

Docs with their eyes on the clock? The effect of time pressures on primary care productivity

Seth Freedman, Ezra Golberstein, Tsan-Yao Huang, David J. Satin and Laura Barrie Smith

Uncovering a behavioral strategy for establishing new habits: Evidence from incentives for medication adherence in Uganda

Chad Stecher, Barbara Mukasa and Sebastian Linnemayr

Hospital Pricing Following Integration with Physician Practices

Haizhen Lin, Ian McCarthy and Michael Richards

Do ridesharing services increase alcohol consumption?

Keith Teltser, Conor Lennon and Jacob Burgdorf

Resolving the milk addiction paradox

Davide Dragone and Davide Raggi

The effects of public health insurance in labor markets with informal jobs: Evidence from Mexico

Alejandro del Valle

The effectiveness of sin food taxes: Evidence from Mexico

Arturo Aguilar Esteva, Emilio Gutierrez and Enrique Seira

Sanitation, financial incentives and health spillovers: A cluster randomised trial

Lisa Cameron, Paulo Santos, Milan Thomas and Jeff Albert

Babies and Bandidos: Birth outcomes in pacified favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Ildo Lautharte

The effect of subsidized childcare on the supply of informal care: Evidence from public kindergarten provision in the US

Amalavoyal Chari and Elsa Valli

Evaluating teen options for preventing pregnancy: Impacts and mechanisms

Dara Lee Luca, Jack Stevens, Dana Rotz, Brian Goesling and Robyn Lutz

Volume 76, issue C, 2021

Income Responses to the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from a Premium Tax Credit Notch

Bradley Heim, Gillian Hunter, Adam Isen, Ithai Z. Lurie and Shanthi P. Ramnath

Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing

Daniel W. Sacks, Alex Hollingsworth, Thuy Nguyen and Kosali Simon

Extreme weather and mortality: Evidence from two millennia of Chinese elites

Wang-Sheng Lee and Ben Li

Low emission zones and population health

Shushanik Margaryan

Rationalizing self-defeating behaviors: Theory and evidence

Lars J. Lefgren, Olga Stoddard and John Stovall

Medical brain drain: How many, where and why?

E. Adovor, M. Czaika, Frédéric Docquier and Yasser Moullan

Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children: Impact of the Nepali Civil War on Women's Stature and Intergenerational Health

Lokendra Phadera

Abortion laws and women’s health

Damian Clarke and Hanna Mühlrad

The effects of income on health: Evidence from lottery wins in Singapore

Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

Rumor has it: How do patients respond to patient-generated physician ratings?

Simon Bensnes and Ingrid Huitfeldt

Effects of employer-offered high-deductible plans on low-value spending in the privately insured population

Brendan Rabideau, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Rachel Reid and Neeraj Sood

Biased health perceptions and risky health behaviors—Theory and evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Goette and Nicolas Ziebarth

Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood

Gerald Pruckner, Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober and Martina Zweimüller

Physician agency, consumerism, and the consumption of lower-limb MRI scans

Michael Chernew, Zack Cooper, Eugene Larsen Hallock and Fiona Scott Morton

Is the rise in illicit opioids affecting labor supply and disability claiming rates?

Sujeong Park and David Powell

Maternity leave and children's health outcomes in the long-term

Marc Fabel

From pain patient to junkie: An economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity

Holger Strulik

Do expansions in adolescent access to public insurance affect the decisions of substance use disorder treatment providers?

Sarah Hamersma and Johanna Catherine Maclean

The political cycle of road traffic accidents

Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

Regulating high-skilled immigration: The market for medical residents

Anthony T. Lo Sasso

How Much Do Outside Options Matter? The Effect of Subsidized Health Insurance on Social Security Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt

Bradley Heim, Ithai Lurie, Kathleen Mullen and Kosali Simon

Relative age for grade and adolescent risky health behavior

Eva Rye Johansen

Inattention or reluctance? Parental responses to vaccination reminder letters

Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani

Time-inconsistent health behavior and its impact on aging and longevity

Holger Strulik and Katharina Werner