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 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

Volume 65, issue C, 2019

Knowing is not half the battle: Impacts of information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea pp. 1-14

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin A. Lee and Wilfredo Lim

Cash on delivery: Results of a randomized experiment to promote maternal health care in Kenya pp. 15-30

Karen A. Grépin, James Habyarimana and William Jack

The unobserved pattern of material hardship and health among older Americans pp. 31-42

Paolo Li Donni

Reproductive health care in Catholic-owned hospitals pp. 48-62

Elaine Hill, David Slusky and Donna Ginther

What are consumers willing to pay for a broad network health plan?: Evidence from covered California pp. 63-77

Coleman Drake

Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments pp. 78-92

Peter Schwardmann

Stubbing out hypothetical bias: improving tobacco market predictions by combining stated and revealed preference data pp. 93-102

John Buckell and Stephane Hess

Inter-brand competition in the convenience store industry, store density and healthcare utilization pp. 117-132

Hung-Hao Chang and Chad Meyerhoefer

Sick of retirement? pp. 133-152

Nick Nielsen

Physician altruism and moral hazard: (no) Evidence from Finnish national prescriptions data pp. 153-169

Giovanni Crea, Matteo Galizzi, Ismo Linnosmaa and Marisa Miraldo

Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders pp. 170-188

Tiziano Arduini, Daniela Iorio and Eleonora Patacchini

Graded return-to-work as a stepping stone to full work resumption pp. 189-209

Lieke Kools and Pierre Koning

Sunset time and the economic effects of social jetlag: evidence from US time zone borders pp. 210-226

Osea Giuntella and Fabrizio Mazzonna

Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance pp. 227-245

Daniel Kemptner

Reference pricing: The case of screening colonoscopies pp. 246-259

Marion Aouad, Timothy T. Brown and Christopher M. Whaley

One lab, two firms, many possibilities: On R&D outsourcing in the biopharmaceutical industry pp. 260-283

Etienne Billette de Villemeur and Bruno Versaevel

Volume 64, issue C, 2019

Competition and equity in health care markets pp. 1-14

Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume

Measuring multivariate risk preferences in the health domain pp. 15-24

Arthur Attema, l’Haridon, Olivier and Gijs Kuilen

Drivers of the fatal drug epidemic pp. 25-42

Christopher Ruhm

Healing the poor: The influence of patient socioeconomic status on physician supply responses pp. 43-54

Alice Chen and Darius Lakdawalla

Low-risk isn’t no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns pp. 55-67

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir and Reyn Van Ewijk

The effect of predictive analytics-driven interventions on healthcare utilization pp. 68-79

Guy David, Aaron Smith-McLallen and Benjamin Ukert

Contemporaneous and long-term effects of children’s public health insurance expansions on Supplemental Security Income participation pp. 80-92

Michael Levere, Sean Orzol, Lindsey Leininger and Nancy Early

Seeing and hearing: The impacts of New York City’s universal pre-kindergarten program on the health of low-income children pp. 93-107

Kai Hong, Kacie Dragan and Sherry Glied

Does external medical review reduce disability insurance inflow? pp. 108-128

Helge Liebert

Volume 63, issue C, 2019

Better together: Coexistence of for-profit and nonprofit firms with an application to the U.S. hospice industry pp. 1-18

Christina Marsh Dalton and W. David Bradford

Heterogeneity in long term health outcomes of migrants within Italy pp. 19-33

Vincenzo Atella, Partha Deb and Joanna Kopinska

Unemployment insurance and cigarette smoking pp. 34-51

Wei Fu and Feng Liu

Are some neighborhoods bad for your waistline? A test of neighborhood exposure effects on BMI pp. 52-63

Susan Ou

The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults:Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions pp. 64-80

Ausmita Ghosh, Kosali Simon and Benjamin D. Sommers

Estimating returns to hospital volume: Evidence from advanced cancer surgery pp. 81-99

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

The Effect of Prescription Drug Coverage on Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation pp. 100-113

Denise Hammock Clayton

The unintended effects of place based programs: Fertility and health effects of urban empowerment zones pp. 114-127

Daniel Grossman

Can a conditional cash transfer reduce teen fertility? The case of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia pp. 128-144

Zachary Olson, Rachel Gardner Clark and Sarah Anne Reynolds

Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents? pp. 145-158

Nadine Ketel, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial pp. 159-181

Malte Sandner

Mother’s mental health after childbirth: Does the delivery method matter? pp. 182-196

Valentina Tonei

Demand for health insurance: Evidence from the California and Washington ACA exchanges pp. 197-222

Evan Saltzman