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 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

Volume 75, issue C, 2021

When less is more: Can reduced health monitoring improve medication adherence?

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla

Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kampfen, Hans-Peter Kohler and Iliana V. Kohler

Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes

Rainer Kotschy

Maternity ward crowding, procedure use, and child health

Jonas Maibom, Hans Sievertsen, Marianne Simonsen and Miriam Wüst

The returns to early-life interventions for very low birth weight children

Eric Chyn, Samantha Gold and Justine Hastings

The effect of income-based mandates on the demand for private hospital insurance and its dynamics

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Terence Cheng, Ngoc T.A. Pham and Kevin Staub

Adult Medicaid benefit generosity and receipt of recommended health services among low-income children: The spillover effects of Medicaid adult dental coverage expansions

Brandy J. Lipton

Deterrence effects of antifraud and abuse enforcement in health care

David H. Howard and Ian McCarthy

Is great information good enough? Evidence from physicians as patients

Michael Frakes, Jonathan Gruber and Anupam Jena

Must-access prescription drug monitoring programs and the opioid overdose epidemic: The unintended consequences

Bokyung Kim

A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries

Ramiro de Elejalde and Eugenio Giolito

Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime

Matthew D. Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James Hammitt and Nicolas Treich

Volume 74, issue C, 2020

Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World

Jan von der Goltz, Aaditya Dar, Ram Fishman, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Prabhat Barnwal and Gordon McCord

Can Labor Market Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?

William Dow, Anna Godøy, Christopher Lowenstein and Michael Reich

Do-It-Yourself medicine? The impact of light cannabis liberalization on prescription drugs

Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio and Francesco Principe

Purchasing medical devices: The role of buyer competence and discretion

Alessandro Bucciol, Riccardo Camboni and Paola Valbonesi

It runs in the family – Influenza vaccination and spillover effects

Nicolas Bouckaert, Anne Gielen and Tom Van Ourti

Volume 73, issue C, 2020

Do hospitals respond to changing incentive structures? Evidence from Medicare’s 2007 DRG restructuring

Amanda Cook and Susan Averett

The effect of eliminating health user fees on adult health and labor supply in Jamaica

Diether Beuermann and Camilo J. Pecha

Military training exercises, pollution, and their consequences for health

Gustavo Bobonis, Mark Stabile and Leonardo Tovar

Billing system and health care utilization: Evidence from Thailand

Kannika Damrongplasit and Kadir Atalay

Womb at work: The missing impact of maternal employment on newborn health

Caroline Chuard

Umbrella branding in pharmaceutical markets

Moritz Suppliet

Insurance access and demand response: Pricing and welfare implications

David Besanko, David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite

Time to care? The effects of retirement on informal care provision

Björn Fischer-Weckemann and Kai-Uwe Müller

Private health investments under competing risks: Evidence from malaria control in Senegal

Pauline Rossi and Paola Villar

Better off at home? Effects of nursing home eligibility on costs, hospitalizations and survival

Pieter Bakx, Bram Wouterse, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Albert Wong

Using biomarkers to predict healthcare costs: Evidence from a UK household panel

Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community-Based Health Interventions and Fertility Choices

Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Maria Rosales-Rueda

Retirement and health: Evidence from England

Liam Rose

The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England

Elaine Kelly and George Stoye

Employment effects of healthcare policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA black box warning on antidepressants

Aline Bütikofer, Christopher Cronin and Meghan Skira