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 79, issue C, 2021

HIV treatment and worker absenteeism: Quasi-experimental evidence from a large-scale health program in South Africa

Dominik Jockers, Sarah Langlotz, Declan French and Till Bärnighausen

Spillovers and Social Interaction Effects in the Demand for Preventive Healthcare: Evidence from the PROGRESA program

Ciro Avitabile

The dynamics of the smoking wage penalty

Michael E. Darden, Julie Hotchkiss and M. Melinda Pitts

None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents

Marco Francesconi and Jonathan James

Competition-driven physician-induced demand

Kei Ikegami, Ken Onishi and Naoki Wakamori

The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation

Daniel Araujo, Bladimir Carrillo and Breno Sampaio

Forced Migration and the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Rozo and María J. Urbina

Cigarette taxes and smoking among sexual minority adults

Christopher S. Carpenter and Dario Sansone

The transmission of health across 7 generations in China, 1789–1906

Jean-François Maystadt and Giuseppe Migali

Has mortality risen disproportionately for the least educated?

Adam Leive and Christopher Ruhm

Non-life-threatening ailments and rational patience when expected treatment outcomes are continuously improving

Kristian Bolin and Michael Caputo

The children of the missed pill

Tomás Rau, Miguel Sarzosa and Sergio Urzua

Total shutdowns, targeted restrictions, or individual responsibility: How to promote social distancing in the COVID-19 Era?

Christopher Cronin and William Evans

Family health spillovers: evidence from the RAND health insurance experiment

Michal Hodor

The unintended effects from halting nuclear power production: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi accident

Matthew Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida and Marcella Veronesi

Snacks, nudges and asymmetric peer influence: Evidence from food choice experiments with children in Indonesia

Margarita de Vries Mecheva, Matthias Rieger, Robert Sparrow, Erfi Prafiantini and Rina Agustina

Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform

Kurt Brekke, Chiara Canta, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Terrorist attacks, Islamophobia and newborns’ health

Grace Armijos Bravo and Judit Vall Castello

Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? Insights from high-Income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong

Jonathan Colmer, Dajun Lin, Siying Liu and Jay Shimshack

Quantifying brand loyalty: Evidence from the cigarette market

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel, Feng Liu and Jason Somerville

Changing physicians’ incentives to control the C-section rate: Evidence from a major health care reform in Iran

Hanifa Pilvar and Kowsar Yousefi

Endogenous longevity and optimal tax progressivity

Burkhard Heer and Stefan Rohrbacher

The impact of certificate of need laws on heart attack mortality: Evidence from county borders

Kevin Chiu

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