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 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

Volume 66, issue C, 2019

Uterus at a price: Disability insurance and hysterectomy pp. 1-17

Elliott Fan, Hsienming Lien and Ching-to Ma

Minimum unit prices for alcohol pp. 18-26

Paul Calcott

Childhood health shocks, comparative advantage, and long-term outcomes: Evidence from the last Danish polio epidemic pp. 27-36

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

The effect of retirement on elderly cognitive functioning pp. 37-53

Kadir Atalay, Garry Barrett and Anita Staneva

Teen driver licensure provisions, licensing, and vehicular fatalities pp. 54-70

Gregory Gilpin

E-cigarette minimum legal sale age laws and traditional cigarette use among rural pregnant teenagers pp. 71-90

Michael Pesko and Janet Currie

The willingness to pay for health improvement under comorbidity ambiguity pp. 91-100

Yoichiro Fujii and Yusuke Osaki

The Effect of Paid Family Leave on Infant and Parental Health in the United States pp. 101-116

Lindsey Rose Bullinger

Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates? pp. 117-135

Kurt Brekke, Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad and Odd Rune Straume

Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis pp. 136-144

Prashant Bharadwaj, Jan Bietenbeck, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

Just what the nurse practitioner ordered: Independent prescriptive authority and population mental health pp. 145-162

Diane Alexander and Molly Schnell

Parallel imports, price controls, and innovation pp. 163-179

Markus Reisinger, Lluís Saurí and Hans Zenger

Impacts of shifting responsibility for high-cost individuals on Health Insurance Exchange plan premiums and cost-sharing provisions pp. 180-194

Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Jeanne Wendel and Miaomiao Zou

Data transformations to improve the performance of health plan payment methods pp. 195-207

Savannah L. Bergquist, Timothy Layton, Thomas G. McGuire and Sherri Rose

Do report cards predict future quality? The case of skilled nursing facilities pp. 208-221

Portia Y. Cornell, David C. Grabowski, Edward Norton and Momotazur Rahman

Does children's education matter for parents’ health and cognition? Evidence from China pp. 222-240

Mingming Ma

Provider responses to online price transparency pp. 241-259

Christopher M. Whaley

Dynamic hospital competition under rationing by waiting times pp. 260-282

Luís Sá, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume