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 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

Volume 72, issue C, 2020

Does price deregulation in a competitive hospital market damage quality?

Anne-Fleur Roos, O’Donnell, Owen, Frederik T. Schut, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Raf Van Gestel and Marco Varkevisser

Determinants of Dietary Choice in the US: Evidence from Consumer Migration

Stefan Hut

The effects of DACA on health insurance, access to care, and health outcomes

Osea Giuntella and Jakub Lonsky

Social capital and health: a meta-analysis

Xindong Xue, W. Reed and Andrea Menclova

The response to nutritional labels: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Eleonora Fichera and Stephanie von Hinke

Theoretical bounds on the value of improved health

Daniel Herrera-Araujo, James Hammitt and Christoph Rheinberger

Cutting fertility? Effects of cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Martin Halla, Harald Mayr, Gerald Pruckner and Pilar Garcia-Gomez

Drug insurance and the strategic behavior of drug manufacturers: Evergreening and generic entry after Medicare Part D

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Gal Wettstein

Did the ACA Medicaid expansion save lives?

Mark Borgschulte and Jacob Vogler

The role of heterogeneity of patients’ preferences in kidney transplantation

Mesfin G Genie, Antonio Nicolo' and Giacomo Pasini

Smoking to cope: Addictive behavior as a response to mental distress

Abigail S. Friedman

Impact of a physician-targeted letter on opioid prescribing

Iiro Ahomäki, Visa Pitkänen, Aarni Soppi and Leena Saastamoinen

Subsidizing access to prescription drugs and health outcomes: The case of diabetes

Pedro Américo and Rudi Rocha

Fracking and risky sexual activity

Scott Cunningham, Gregory DeAngelo and Brock Smith

Health technology assessment with risk aversion in health

Darius Lakdawalla and Charles E. Phelps

Free GP care and psychological health: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ireland

Yuanyuan Ma, Anne Nolan and James Smith

Not only in my genes: The effects of peers’ genotype on obesity

Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

Volume 71, issue C, 2020

Selection in employer sponsored health insurance

Elena Capatina

The Green revolution and infant mortality in India

Prashant Bharadwaj, James Fenske, Namrata Kala and Rinchan Ali Mirza

Hunger pains? SNAP timing and emergency room visits

Chad Cotti, John M. Gordanier and Orgul Ozturk

Living up to expectations: Experimental tests of subjective life expectancy as reference point in time trade-off and standard gamble

Stefan A. Lipman, Werner Brouwer and Arthur Attema

How increasing medical access to opioids contributes to the opioid epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D

David Powell, Rosalie Pacula and Erin Taylor

Did parental involvement laws grow teeth? The effects of state restrictions on minors’ access to abortion

Caitlin Myers and Daniel Ladd

Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality

Anna Godøy and Ingrid Huitfeldt

Optimal price regulations in international pharmaceutical markets with generic competition

Difei Geng and Kamal Saggi

The average and distributional effects of teenage adversity on long-term health

Jie Gong, Yi Lu and Huihua Xie

Primary care physician practice styles and patient care: Evidence from physician exits in Medicare

Itzik Fadlon and Jessica Van Parys

The cyclicality of informal care

Corina Mommaerts and Yulya Truskinovsky

The winter choke: Coal-Fired heating, air pollution, and mortality in China

Maoyong Fan, Guojun He and Maigeng Zhou