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 70, issue C, 2020

Another look at returns to birthweight

Shiko Maruyama and Eskil Heinesen

The effect of malpractice law on physician supply: Evidence from negligence-standard reforms

Michael D. Frakes, Matthew B. Frank and Seth A. Seabury

Thank goodness for stickiness: Unravelling the evolution of income-related health inequalities before and after the Great Recession in Europe

Max Coveney, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti

Neighborhood networks and program participation

Daniel Grossman and Umair Khalil

The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions in the UK

Katharina Janke, David Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

The relative value of different QALY types

Emily Lancsar, Yuanyuan Gu, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Jim Butler, Julie Ratcliffe, Liliana Bulfone and Cam Donaldson

In-kind incentives and health worker performance: Experimental evidence from El Salvador

Pedro Bernal Lara and Sebastian Martinez

Swamped: Emergency Department Crowding and Patient Mortality

Lindsey Woodworth

Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children

Dora Costa, Noelle Yetter and Heather DeSomer

The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes

Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla and Nicole Schneeweis

When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

Squaring the cube: Towards an operational model of optimal universal health coverage

Jessica Ochalek, Gerald Manthalu and Peter C. Smith

Sex, marijuana and baby booms

Michele Baggio, Alberto Chong and David Simon

Confirmatory bias in health decisions: Evidence from the MMR-autism controversy

Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou and Ernest K. Lai

Optimal hospital payment rules under rationing by waiting

Hugh Gravelle and Fred Schroyen

The role of Mexican immigration to the United States in improved workplace safety for natives from 1980 to 2015

Marcus Dillender and Melissa McInerney

Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Jan Marcus, Simon Reif, Amelie Wuppermann and Amélie Rouche

The effect of the National Kidney Registry on the kidney-exchange market

Roksana Ghanbariamin and Bobby (Wing Yin) Chung

Mendelian Randomization analysis of the causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs

Padraig Dixon, William Hollingworth, Sean Harrison, Neil M. Davies and George Davey Smith

Inequality aversion in income, health, and income-related health

Jeremiah Hurley, Emmanouil Mentzakis and Marjan Walli-Attaei

The effects of medicare advantage on opioid use

Laurence C. Baker, M. Kate Bundorf and Daniel P. Kessler

Spillovers of prosocial motivation: Evidence from an intervention study on blood donors

Adrian Bruhin, Lorenz Goette, Simon Haenni and Lingqing Jiang

A welfare-theoretic model consistent with the practice of cost-effectiveness analysis and its implications

Anirban Basu

Rebates as incentives: The effects of a gym membership reimbursement program

Tatiana Homonoff, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

Volume 69, issue C, 2020

The impact of health insurance on stockholding: A regression discontinuity approach

Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

Does education reduce teen fertility? Evidence from compulsory schooling laws

Philip DeCicca and Harry Krashinsky

Birth weight and infant health for multiple births

Martin Saavedra

The kids are alright - labour market effects of unexpected parental hospitalisations in the Netherlands

Sara Rellstab, Pieter Bakx, Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Sources of regional variation in healthcare utilization in Germany

Martin Salm and Ansgar Wübker

The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing

Benjamin J. McMichael, R. Lawrence Van Horn and W Viscusi

Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

Neonatal health of parents and cognitive development of children

Claus Kreiner and Hans Sievertsen

The treatment decision under uncertainty: The effects of health, wealth and the probability of death

Stefan Felder

The internet and children’s psychological wellbeing

Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

Child sleep and mother labour market outcomes

Joan Costa-Font and Sarah Flèche

A double safety net? Understanding interactions between disability benefits, formal assistance, and family support

Stephanie Rennane

Volume 68, issue C, 2019

Temperature and mental health: Evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes

Jamie T. Mullins and Corey White

How is the trade-off between adverse selection and discrimination risk affected by genetic testing? Theory and experiment

David Bardey, Philippe De Donder and César Mantilla

Spatial competition and quality: Evidence from the English family doctor market

Hugh Gravelle, Dan Liu, Carol Propper and Rita Santos

The unexpected consequences of generic entry

Micael Castanheira, Carmine Ornaghi and Georges Siotis

Paying for efficiency: Incentivising same-day discharges in the English NHS

James Gaughan, Nils Gutacker, Katja Grašič, Noemi Kreif, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Street

Subjective and objective quality and choice of hospital: Evidence from maternal care services in Germany

Daniel Avdic, Giuseppe Moscelli, Adam Pilny and Ieva Sriubaite

More sneezing, less crime? Health shocks and the market for offenses

Aaron Chalfin, Shooshan Danagoulian and Monica Deza

Convenient primary care and emergency hospital utilisation

Edward Pinchbeck

Does e-cigarette advertising encourage adult smokers to quit?

Dhaval Dave, Daniel Dench, Michael Grossman, Donald Kenkel and Henry Saffer

Medical innovation, education, and labor market outcomes of cancer patients

Sung-Hee Jeon and R. Vincent Pohl

Local food prices, SNAP purchasing power, and child health

Erin T. Bronchetti, Garret Christensen and Hilary Hoynes

Volume 67, issue C, 2019

Disease outbreaks, healthcare utilization, and on-time immunization in the first year of life

Jessamyn Schaller, Lisa Schulkind and Teny Shapiro

Health care reform, adverse selection and health insurance choice

Cristian Pardo

The affordable care act and ambulance response times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew Friedson, Andrew P. Koller and Daniel I. Rees

Coping with risk: Negative shocks, transactional sex, and the limitations of conditional cash transfers

Erick Gong, Damien de Walque and William Dow

What to expect when you are expecting: Are health care consumers forward-looking?

Audrey Guo and Jonathan Zhang

The impact of the Philadelphia beverage tax on purchases and consumption by adults and children

John Cawley, David Frisvold, Anna Hill and David Jones

The shattered “Iron Rice Bowl”: Intergenerational effects of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise reform

Nancy Kong, Lars Osberg and Weina Zhou

XX > XY?: The changing female advantage in life expectancy

Claudia Goldin and Adriana Lleras-Muney

How effective are pictorial warnings on tobacco products? New evidence on smoking behaviour using Australian panel data

Daniel Kuehnle

Health provider networks with private contracts: Is there under-treatment in narrow networks?

Jan Boone