American Journal of Health Economics

2015 - 2019

Current editor(s): Thomas Buchmueller

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Volume 5, issue 4, 2019

Discrimination in Health Care: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Patients’ Socioeconomic Status on Access to Care pp. 407-427

Silvia Angerer, Christian Waibel and Harald Stummer

The Distortionary Effects of the Health Insurance Tax Exclusion pp. 428-464

David Powell

Why Don't Commercial Health Plans Use Prospective Payment? pp. 465-480

Laurence Baker, M. Kate Bundorf, Aileen Devlin and Daniel P. Kessler

Should We Do More to Police Medicaid Fraud? Evidence on the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Expanded Enforcement pp. 481-508

Victoria Perez and Coady Wing

Revisiting the Effects of Tobacco Retailer Compliance Inspections on Youth Tobacco Use pp. 509-532

Bo Feng and Michael F. Pesko

Health Insurance and Early Retirement Plans: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act pp. 533-560

Padmaja Ayyagari

Volume 5, issue 3, 2019

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Medical Marijuana Laws and Tobacco Cigarette Use pp. 303-333

Anna Choi, Dhaval Dave and Joseph J. Sabia

The Impact of Women's Health Clinic Closures on Fertility pp. 334-359

Yao Lu and David Slusky

Health Returns to Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Market for Oral Chemotherapy in Response to Insurance Coverage Expansion pp. 360-375

Caroline Savage Bennette, Anirban Basu, Scott D. Ramsey, Zachary Helms and Peter B. Bach

Baby Boomlets and Baby Health: Hospital Crowdedness, Hospital Spending, and Infant Health pp. 376-406

Mindy Marks and Moonkyung Kate Choi

Volume 5, issue 2, 2019

Consumer Response to Composite Ratings of Nursing Home Quality pp. 165-190

Marcelo Coca Perraillon, R. Tamara Konetzka, Daifeng He and Rachel M. Werner

The Consequences of a Public Health Insurance Option: Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 191-226

Daniel P. Miller and Jungwon Yeo

Consumer Responses to Price Transparency Alone versus Price Transparency Combined with Reference Pricing pp. 227-249

Christopher Whaley, Timothy Brown and James Robinson

Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals pp. 250-280

Peter Savelyev and Kegon Tan

The Comparative Advantage of Medicare Advantage pp. 281-301

Joseph Newhouse, Mary Beth Landrum, Mary Price, J. Michael McWilliams, John Hsu and Thomas G. McGuire

Volume 5, issue 1, 2019

Health Economists in the Real World pp. 1-7

Jonathan Gruber

Short-Run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Child Health pp. 8-41

Jessamyn Schaller and Mariana Zerpa

Are Booster Seats More Effective than Child Safety Seats or Seat Belts at Reducing Traffic Fatalities among Children? pp. 42-64

D. Mark Anderson and Sina Sandholt

Quality Competition and Intra-System Substitution in the Hospital Industry pp. 65-96

Andrew Sfekas

The Effects of Graduation Requirements on Risky Health Behaviors of High School Students pp. 97-125

Zhuang Hao and Benjamin W. Cowan

Does Medicare Part D Save Lives? pp. 126-164

Abe Dunn and Adam Shapiro

Volume 4, issue 4, 2018

Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes? pp. 411-432

R. Tamara Konetzka, Karen B. Lasater, Edward Norton and Rachel M. Werner

How Does Technological Change Affect Quality-Adjusted Prices in Health Care? Systematic Evidence from Thousands of Innovations pp. 433-453

Kristopher J. Hult, Sonia Jaffe and Tomas Philipson

The Impact of Partial-Year Enrollment on the Accuracy of Risk-Adjustment Systems: A Framework and Evidence pp. 454-478

Keith Ericson, Kimberley H. Geissler and Benjamin Lubin

Medical Scribes as an Input in Health-Care Production: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 479-503

Andrew Friedson

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: The Role of Asymmetric Information on Drug Availability and Abuse pp. 504-526

Angélica Meinhofer

Volume 4, issue 3, 2018

Advertising and Health: A Case Study of Menthol Cigarette Advertising and Cigarette Demand pp. 263-286

Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios and Hua Wang

Red Alert: Prenatal Stress and Plans to Close Military Bases pp. 287-320

Kyle Carlson

Examining Firm Responses to R&D Policy: An Analysis of Pediatric Exclusivity pp. 321-357

Mary Olson and Nina Yin

Can At-Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 358-382

Adrienne Lucas and Nicholas Wilson

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Is There a Role for Physician Education? pp. 383-410

Molly Schnell and Janet Currie

Volume 4, issue 2, 2018

The Impact of Nurse Turnover on Quality of Care and Mortality in Nursing Homes: Evidence from the Great Recession pp. 131-163

Yaa Akosa Antwi and John Bowblis

The Effect of Alcohol Access on Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Evidence From the Minimum Legal Drinking Age pp. 164-184

Vijetha Koppa

The Impact of Maternal Mental Health Shocks on Child Health: Estimates from Fixed-Effects Instrumental Variables Models for Two Cohorts of Australian Children pp. 185-225

Huong Thu Le and Ha Nguyen

Physician Competition and the Provision of Care: Evidence from Heart Attacks pp. 226-261

Abe Dunn and Adam Shapiro

Volume 4, issue 1, 2018

Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus? pp. 1-25

Helen G. Levy, Edward Norton and Jeffrey Smith

Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health-Care Demand pp. 26-50

Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms pp. 51-79

Seth Freedman, Haizhen Lin and Jeffrey Prince

Does Cigarette Smuggling Prop Up Smoking Rates? pp. 80-104

James Bishop

Incentive Design and Quality Improvements: Evidence from State Medicaid Nursing Home Pay-for-Performance Programs pp. 105-130

R. Tamara Konetzka, Meghan Skira and Rachel M. Werner

Volume 3, issue 4, 2017

A Kinked Health Insurance Market: Employer-Sponsored Insurance under the Cadillac Tax pp. 455-476

Coleman Drake, Lucas Higuera, Fernando Alarid-Escudero and Roger Feldman

Three's a Crowd? The Effect of Insurer Participation on Premiums and Cost-Sharing Parameters in the Initial Years of the ACA Marketplaces pp. 477-506

Brett Lissenden

The Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Adolescent Smoking: Comparing Self-Reports and Biomarkers pp. 507-527

Erik Nesson

Tobacco Control, Medicaid Coverage, and the Demand for Smoking Cessation Drugs pp. 528-549

Michael R. Richards, Joachim Marti, Johanna Maclean, Jason Fletcher and Donald Kenkel

How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect Premiums in the Health Insurance Marketplaces? New Evidence from Late Adoption in Pennsylvania and Indiana pp. 550-576

Lizhong Peng

Volume 3, issue 3, 2017

The Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality pp. 281-311

Bernard Black, José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Eric French and Kate Litvak

English Skills and the Health Insurance Coverage of Immigrants pp. 312-345

Marcus Dillender

Incentive(less)? The Effectiveness of Tax Credits and Cost-Sharing Subsidies in the Affordable Care Act pp. 346-369

Jesse M. Hinde

Are Employer Mandates to Offer Health Insurance Effective in Reducing Subsidized Coverage Crowd-Out of Employer-Sponsored Insurance? pp. 370-391

Sean Lyons

State Medicaid Expansions and Mortality, Revisited: A Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 392-421

Benjamin D. Sommers

Physician Prices, Hospital Prices, and Treatment Choice in Labor and Delivery pp. 422-453

Patricia K. Foo, Robin Lee and Kyna Fong

Volume 3, issue 2, 2017

The Association between Patient Safety Indicators and Medical Malpractice Risk: Evidence from Florida and Texas pp. 109-139

Bernard Black, Amy R. Wagner and Zenon Zabinski

Supply-Side Responses to Public Quality Ratings: Evidence from Medicare Advantage pp. 140-164

Ian McCarthy and Michael Darden

Marketplace Plan Payment Options for Dealing with High-Cost Enrollees pp. 165-191

Timothy Layton and Thomas G. McGuire

Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda pp. 192-226

Tisamarie B. Sherry, Sebastian Bauhoff and Manoj Mohanan

Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies pp. 227-253

Nils Wernerfelt, David Slusky and Richard Zeckhauser

The Effect of Medicare Advantage on Hospital Admissions and Mortality pp. 254-279

Christopher C. Afendulis, Michael E. Chernew and Daniel P. Kessler

Volume 3, issue 1, 2017

Should Lower-Income People Be Allowed to Buy Insurance with High Cost Sharing? pp. 1-9

Mark V. Pauly

Compliance Inspections of Tobacco Retailers and Youth Smoking pp. 10-32

Rahi Abouk and Scott Adams

Pharmaceutical Patent Challenges: Company Strategies and Litigation Outcomes pp. 33-59

Henry Grabowski, Carlos Brain, Anna Taub and Rahul Guha

Have Cigarette Taxes Lost Their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking pp. 60-75

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel I. Rees

Health Spillovers among Hospital Patients: Evidence from Roommate Assignments pp. 76-107

Olga Yakusheva