Health Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 11, 2024

Medicaid expansion and opioid prescriptions: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey pp. 2439-2449

Chandler McClellan and Asako Moriya

The impact of surprise billing laws on emergency services pp. 2450-2462

Christopher Garmon, Yiting Li, Sheldon M. Retchin and Wendy Yi Xu

A welfare analysis of Medicaid and recidivism pp. 2463-2507

Erkmen G. Aslim, Murat C. Mungan and Han Yu

How do dental practices respond to changes in scope of practice regulations? pp. 2508-2524

Kamyar Nasseh, John R. Bowblis and Coady Wing

The effect of vertical identification card laws on teenage tobacco and alcohol use pp. 2525-2557

Erica Louis Mtenga and Michael Pesko

Non‐classical measurement error in instrumental variables estimation: An application to the medical care costs of obesity pp. 2558-2574

Adam Biener, Chad Meyerhoefer and John Cawley

Air pollution, viral spread and health outcomes evidence from strikes in France pp. 2575-2617

Alexandre Godzinski and Milena Suarez Castillo

From prevention to treatment: Prescription medication, information, and health behaviors pp. 2618-2644

Danea Horn

Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China pp. 2645-2670

Simon Appleton, Jinying Huang, Xuyan Lou and Minghai Zhou

Specification of the health production function and its behavioral implications pp. 2671-2684

Kristian Bolin and Michael Caputo

Volume 33, issue 10, 2024

Public health economics: Should it be more offensive? pp. 2203-2205

Richard Smith

How do physicians respond to new medical research? pp. 2206-2228

Philip DeCicca, Maripier Isabelle and Natalie Malak

The effect of social media use on mental health of college students during the pandemic pp. 2229-2252

Jane Fruehwirth, Alex Xingbang Weng and Krista M. Perreira

The effects of an unconditional cash transfer on parents' mental health in the United States pp. 2253-2287

Clemente Pignatti and Zachary Parolin

Primary care payment models and avoidable hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada: A multivalued treatment effects analysis pp. 2288-2305

Nibene Habib Somé, Rose Anne Devlin, Nirav Mehta and Sisira Sarma

Does college selectivity reduce obesity? A partial identification approach pp. 2306-2320

Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz‐ de‐Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

Effects of essential caregiver policies on COVID‐19 and non‐COVID‐19 deaths in nursing homes pp. 2321-2341

Mingyu Qi, Nadia Ghazali and R. Tamara Konetzka

Inequality of opportunity in the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico pp. 2342-2380

Andrea Salas‐Ortiz and Andrew Jones

Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk‐taking pp. 2381-2398

Stefan Boes and Steven Stillman

Earlier routine induction of labor—Consequences on mother and child morbidity pp. 2399-2418

Maria Koch Gregersen

Adaptation of the Foster‐Greer‐Thorbecke poverty measures for the measurement of catastrophic health expenditures pp. 2419-2436

Tomson Ogwang and Germano Mwabu

Volume 33, issue 9, 2024

Is anchoring at ‘dead’ a theoretical requirement for health state valuation? pp. 1929-1935

Christopher Sampson, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin

Information and vaccine hesitancy: The role of broadband Internet pp. 1936-1948

Sofia Amaral‐Garcia, Mattia Nardotto, Carol Propper and Tommaso Valletti

Do time preferences predict diabetes outcomes? A combined survey and register‐based study pp. 1949-1961

Kristoffer Panduro Madsen and Trine Kjær

Exposure to cigarette taxes as a teenager and the persistence of smoking into adulthood pp. 1962-1988

Andrew Friedson, Moyan Li, Katherine Meckel, Daniel I. Rees and Daniel W. Sacks

Together in sickness and in health: Spillover of physical, mental, and cognitive health among older English couples pp. 1989-2012

Urvashi Jain and Mingming Ma

The effect of birth timing manipulation around carnival on birth indicators in Brazil pp. 2013-2058

Carolina Melo and Naercio Menezes‐Filho

Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs pp. 2059-2087

Brendan Rabideau, Michael R. Richards and Christopher M. Whaley

Drinking in despair: Unintended consequences of automation in China pp. 2088-2104

Wenyi Lu and Siyuan Fan

Local restrictions, population movement, and spillovers during the pandemic: Evidence from Japan's restaurant restriction pp. 2105-2122

Zihan Xu and Satoru Shimokawa

Business cycles and healthcare employment pp. 2123-2161

Erkmen G. Aslim, Shin‐Yi Chou and Kuhelika De

Assessing the quality of public services: For‐profits, chains, and concentration in the hospital market pp. 2162-2181

Johannes S. Kunz, Carol Propper, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

Prenatal exposure to particulate matter and infant birth outcomes: Evidence from a population‐wide database pp. 2182-2200

Babak Jahanshahi, Brian Johnston, Mark McGovern, Duncan McVicar, Dermot O’Reilly, Neil Rowland and Stavros Vlachos

Volume 33, issue 8, 2024

The effect of retirement eligibility on mental health in the United Kingdom: Heterogeneous effects by occupation pp. 1621-1648

Joe Spearing

Do physicians' attitudes toward prioritization predict poor‐health patients' access to care? pp. 1649-1659

Anne Sophie Oxholm and Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

Special economic zone and infant mortality: Evidence from China pp. 1660-1681

Siwei Guo, Zhaopeng Qu, Weizeng Sun and Ming‐ang Zhang

Pornography usage during adolescence: Does it lead to risky sexual behavior? pp. 1682-1704

Hamida Mubasshera

Nudging healthy food choices through e‐messages in a supermarket pp. 1705-1725

Ana Balsa, Cecilia Noboa and Patricia Triunfo

The effects of dental hygienist autonomy on dental care utilization pp. 1726-1747

Jie Chen, Chad D. Meyerhoefer and Edward Timmons

The brother's penalty: Boy preference and girls' health in rural China pp. 1748-1771

Yuli Ye, Qinying He, Qiang Li and Lian An

Integrating decision modeling and machine learning to inform treatment stratification pp. 1772-1792

David Glynn, John Giardina, Julia Hatamyar, Ankur Pandya, Marta Soares and Noemi Kreif

Auditing the prescription drug consumer price index in a changing marketplace pp. 1793-1810

Andrew L. Hicks, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard G. Frank

Risk compensation after COVID‐19 vaccination: Evidence from vaccine rollout by exact birth date in South Korea pp. 1811-1830

Jisoo Hwang, Seung‐sik Hwang, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee and Junseok Lee

Efficiency and productivity gains of robotic surgery: The case of the English National Health Service pp. 1831-1856

Laia Maynou, Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra‐Sastre

Effect of patient death on referrals to cardiac specialists pp. 1857-1868

Sidra Haye

Drink…then drive away: The effects of lowering the blood alcohol concentration in Utah pp. 1869-1894

Javier E. Portillo, Wisnu Sugiarto and Kevin Willardsen

The impact of the 2014 Medicaid expansion on the health, health care access, and financial well‐being of low‐income young adults pp. 1895-1925

Christal Hamilton

Volume 33, issue 7, 2024

The impact of HIV/AIDS on marriage in the early years of the epidemic pp. 1415-1425

Hasan Shahid

Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession‐linked declines in healthcare access and health status pp. 1426-1453

Joseph Benitez, Kevin Callison and E. Kathleen Adams

The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies pp. 1454-1479

Marie‐Louise Leroux, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere

Free school meals and cognitive ability: Evidence from China's student nutrition improvement plan pp. 1480-1502

Xueyi Duan, Yinhe Liang and Xiaobo Peng

Paid family leave and the fight against hunger: Evidence from New York pp. 1503-1527

Jiyoon Kim and Otto Lenhart

The impact of juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates pp. 1528-1545

Aaron Gamino

Harmonizing regulatory market approval of products with high safety requirements: Evidence from the European pharmaceutical market pp. 1546-1564

Fabian Grünwald and Tom Stargardt

Optimal self‐protection and health risk perceptions: Exploring connections between risk theory and the Health Belief Model pp. 1565-1583

Emmanuelle Augeraud‐Véron and Marc Leandri

Smoothing consumption in times of illness: Household recourse mechanisms pp. 1584-1617

Abhishek Dureja and Digvijay S. Negi

Volume 33, issue 6, 2024

The effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities pp. 1123-1132

Louis‐Philippe Beland, Jason Huh and Dongwoo Kim

Why do drinkers earn more? Job characteristics as a possible link pp. 1133-1152

Yihong Bai and Michel Grignon

Mothers' school starting age and infant health pp. 1153-1191

Cristina Borra, Libertad Gonzalez and David Patiño-Rodriguez

Effects of private health insurance on waiting time in public hospitals pp. 1192-1210

Ou Yang, Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang

How do surrogates make treatment decisions for patients with dementia: An experimental survey study pp. 1211-1228

Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Kenneth M. Langa, Scott D. Halpern and Mario Macis

Financial protection in health revisited: Is catastrophic health spending underestimated for service‐ or disease‐specific analysis? pp. 1229-1240

John E. Ataguba, Hyacinth E. Ichoku, Marie‐Gloriose Ingabire and James Akazili

Air pollution and the burden of long‐term care: Evidence from China pp. 1241-1265

Zining Liu and Cheng Wan

Using data on biomarkers and siblings to study early‐life economic determinants of type‐2 diabetes pp. 1266-1283

Rob J. M. Alessie, Viola Angelini, Gerard J. van den Berg, Jochen O. Mierau and Gianmaria Niccodemi

The effect of combat deployments on veteran opioid abuse pp. 1284-1318

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and W. David Bradford

Media coverage and pandemic behavior: Evidence from Sweden pp. 1319-1367

Marcel Garz and Maiting Zhuang

Bridging the gap: Experimental evidence on information provision and health insurance choices pp. 1368-1386

Ana Cecilia Quiroga Gutierrez and Stefan Boes

The infant health effects of doulas: Leveraging big data and machine learning to inform cost‐effective targeting pp. 1387-1411

Evan D. Peet, Dana Schultz, Susan Lovejoy and Fuchiang (Rich) Tsui

Volume 33, issue 5, 2024

How do hospitals respond to payment unbundling for diagnostic imaging of suspected cancer patients? pp. 823-843

Helen Hayes, Jonathan Stokes, Matt Sutton and Rachel Meacock

Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation pp. 844-869

Michael Lebenbaum, Claire de Oliveira, France Gagnon and Audrey Laporte

Health insurance and child mortality: Evidence from India pp. 870-893

Anaka Aiyar and Naveen Sunder

Exploring health preference heterogeneity in the UK: Using the online elicitation of personal utility functions approach to construct EQ‐5D‐5L value functions on societal, group and individual level pp. 894-910

Paul Schneider, Nancy Devlin, Ben van Hout and John Brazier

Physician responses to insurance benefit restrictions: The case of ophthalmology pp. 911-928

Olukorede Abiona, Philip Haywood, Serena Yu, Jane Hall, Denzil Fiebig and Kees van Gool

Should it stay, or swerve? Trading off lives in dilemma situations involving autonomous cars pp. 929-951

Wolfgang Habla, Mitesh Kataria, Peter Martinsson and Kerstin Roeder

The direct and spillover effects of diabetes diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours pp. 952-970

Rhys Llewellyn Thomas and Emmanouil Mentzakis

The effects of social pensions on nutrition‐related health outcomes of the poor: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Peru pp. 971-991

Noelia Bernal Lobato, Javier Olivera and Marc Suhrcke

Selection and behavioral responses of health insurance subsidies in the long run: Evidence from a field experiment in Ghana pp. 992-1032

Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Armand Sim

Exiting primary care providers pp. 1033-1054

Katrin Zocher

Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors pp. 1055-1119

Henrike Sternberg, Janina Isabel Steinert and Tim Büthe

Volume 33, issue 4, 2024

Allocating aid for COVID‐19 support: A constrained optimisation approach pp. 597-603

Simon Feeny

Negative emotions increase unhealthy eating: Evidence from the Wuhan lockdown during COVID‐19 pp. 604-635

Xiqian Cai, JunJie Wu, Wenchao Xu and Jialiang Zhu

Age penalties and take‐up of private health insurance pp. 636-651

Nathan Kettlewell and Yuting Zhang

How important are delays in treatment for health outcomes? The case of ambulance response time and cardiovascular events pp. 652-673

Elena Lucchese

Social fund and infant mortality: Evidence from an anti‐poverty policy in Northeast Brazil pp. 674-695

Álvaro Robério de Souza Sá and Danyelle Branco

Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care pp. 696-713

Olivia Bodnar, Hugh Gravelle, Nils Gutacker and Annika Herr

An analysis of a rural hospital's investment decision under different payment systems pp. 714-747

Xidong Guo

A panel vector autoregression analysis for the dynamics of medical and long‐term care expenditures pp. 748-763

Shinya Sugawara, Tsunehiro Ishihara, Susumu Kunisawa, Etsu Goto and Yuichi Imanaka

Addressing the distributional consequences of spillovers in health economic evaluation: A prioritarian approach pp. 764-778

Edward Henry and John Cullinan

Impacts of Norway's extended free choice reform on waiting times and hospital visits pp. 779-803

Ge Ge, Tor Iversen, Oddvar Kaarbøe and Øyvind Snilsberg

Achieving dynamic efficiency in pharmaceutical innovation: Identifying the optimal share of value and payments required pp. 804-819

Beth Woods, James Lomas, Mark Sculpher, Helen Weatherly and Karl Claxton

Volume 33, issue 3, 2024

Effects of extending residencies on the supply and quality of family medicine practitioners; difference‐in‐differences evidence from the implementation of mandatory family medicine residencies in Canada pp. 393-409

Stephenson Strobel

(No) time to be healthy: Optimal policy with time and monetary investments in health pp. 410-431

Justina Klimaviciute

Lead exposure and student outcomes: A study of Flint schools pp. 432-448

Jessica Sauve‐Syed

Fast food proximity and weight gain in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from Great Britain pp. 449-465

Nicolás Libuy, David Church, George Ploubidis and Emla Fitzsimons

Why higher copayments for opioids did not reduce use among Medicare beneficiaries pp. 466-481

Geoffrey Joyce, Bo Zhou and Robert Kaestner

On the short‐term impact of pollution: The effect of PM 2.5 on emergency room visits pp. 482-508

Evangelina Dardati, Ramiro de Elejalde and Eugenio Giolito

Vaccine‐skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions pp. 509-525

Andreas Steinmayr and Manuel Rossi

The effect of Medicaid expansion on the take‐up of disability benefits by race and ethnicity pp. 526-540

Becky Staiger, Madeline Helfer and Jessica Van Parys

The effects of education on mortality: Evidence using college expansions pp. 541-575

Jason Fletcher and Hamid Noghanibehambari

Capital flight and public health outcomes in Africa pp. 576-593

Yacouba Kassouri

Volume 33, issue 2, 2024

Going the extra mile? General practitioners' upcoding of fees for home visits pp. 197-203

Jamie O’Halloran, Anne Sophie Oxholm, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen and Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

The impact of integrated care on health care utilization and costs in a socially deprived urban area in Germany: A difference‐in‐differences approach within an event‐study framework pp. 229-247

Vanessa Ress and Eva‐Maria Wild

The effect of gun buy‐back law reform on homicides and suicides in Australia pp. 248-279

Patrick Duenow and Luke B. Connelly

How does a ban on sex‐selective abortions affect child health? pp. 280-309

Aparajita Dasgupta and Anisha Sharma

Naturalization and immigrants' health pp. 310-332

Ainoa Aparicio

Financial incentives and health provider behaviour: Evidence from a capitation policy in Ghana pp. 333-344

Adolf Kwadzo Dzampe and Shingo Takahashi

I wish I were born in another time: Unintended consequences of immigration enforcement on birth outcomes pp. 345-362

Hoa Vu

Growing up without health insurance: Evidence from rural China pp. 363-390

Guanfu Fang, Xin Li and Tianyu Tang

Conditional cash transfers and women's reproductive choices

Sonia Laszlo, Muhammad Farhan Majid and Laetitia Renée

Volume 33, issue 1, 2024

Measuring skin color inequality in women's health in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from the PCSVDFMulher survey pp. 3-11

Victor Hugo de Oliveira and José Raimundo Carvalho

The effects of parental retirement on adult children's health: Evidence from China pp. 12-20

Zhuang Hao, Huihui Cheng, Till Bärnighausen and Simiao Chen

Terrorism and child mortality pp. 21-40

Daniel Meierrieks and Max Schaub

Ethnic inequality and public health pp. 41-58

Sundar Ponnusamy and Mohammad Abbas Hakeem

Mandated checkups, knowledge of own health status, and chronic care utilization: The effect of HIV medical evaluation mandates on healthcare quality and expenditure in a US‐single payer system pp. 59-81

Senay Topal, Patrick Richard, John Young, Anuradha Ganesan, Todd Gleeson, Jason Blaylock, Jason F. Okulicz, Xiuping Chu and Brian K. Agan

Let's call! Using the phone to increase vaccine acceptance pp. 82-106

Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia and Pedro Vicente

Legalization and retail availability of recreational marijuana and adolescent use in schools pp. 107-120

Gulcan Cil, Ken C. Winters, Sean C. Austin, Angus Kittelman, Keith Smolkowski, Erika Westling and John R. Seeley

Long‐term mental health cost of the Great Chinese Famine pp. 121-136

Mingwang Cheng, Zhouxiang Wang and Ning Neil Yu

The effect of prescription drug insurance on the incidence of potentially inappropriate prescribing: Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 137-152

Donghoon Lee, SangJune Kim and Jerome A. Dugan

Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal pp. 153-193

Henry Cust, Aurélia Lépine, Carole Treibich, Timothy Powell‐Jackson, Rosalba Radice and Cheikh Tidiane Ndour