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 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

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