Health Economics

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Volume 24, issue S2, 2015

Towards Explaining International Differences in Health Care Performance: Results of the EuroHOPE Project pp. 1-4

Unto Häkkinen, Tor Iversen, Mikko Peltola, Clas Rehnberg, Timo T. Seppälä and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Comparative Analysis of Treatment Costs in EUROHOPE pp. 5-22

Tor Iversen, Eline Aas, Gunnar Rosenqvist, Unto Häkkinen and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Parameter Heterogeneity In Breast Cancer Cost Regressions – Evidence From Five European Countries pp. 23-37

Joel Smith, Helen Banks, Harry Campbell, Anne Douglas, Eilidh Fletcher, Alison McCallum, Tron Anders Moger, Mikko Peltola, Sofia Sveréus, Sarah Wild, Linda J. Williams, John Forbes and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Individual and Regional‐level Factors Contributing to Variation in Length of Stay After Cerebral Infarction in Six European Countries pp. 38-52

Mikko Peltola, Timo T. Seppälä, Antti Malmivaara, Éva Belicza, Dino Numerato, Fanny Goude, Eilidh Fletcher, Richard Heijink and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

European Regional Differences in All‐Cause Mortality and Length of Stay for Patients with Hip Fracture pp. 53-64

Emma Medin, Fanny Goude, Hans Olav Melberg, Fabrizio Tediosi, Eva Belicza, Mikko Peltola and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Variations and Determinants of Mortality and Length of Stay of Very Low Birth Weight and Very Low for Gestational Age Infants in Seven European Countries pp. 65-87

Giovanni Fatttore, Dino Numerato, Mikko Peltola, Helen Banks, Rebecca Graziani, Richard Heijink, Eelco Over, Søren Toksvig Klitkou, Eilidh Fletcher, Péter Mihalicza, Sofia Sveréus and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, and Mortality: A Comparative Effectiveness Analysis Covering Seven European Countries pp. 88-101

Terje P. Hagen, Unto Häkkinen, Eva Belicza, Giovanni Fatore, Fanny Goude and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Socio‐economic Inequality in the Use of Procedures and Mortality Among AMI Patients: Quantifying the Effects Along Different Paths pp. 102-115

Terje P. Hagen, Unto Häkkinen, Tor Iversen, Søren Toksvig Klitkou, Tron Anders Moger and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Outcome, Use of Resources and Their Relationship in the Treatment of AMI, Stroke and Hip Fracture at European Hospitals pp. 116-139

Unto Häkkinen, Gunnar Rosenqvist, Tor Iversen, Clas Rehnberg, Timo T. Seppälä and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Costs and Quality at the Hospital Level in the Nordic Countries pp. 140-163

Sverre Kittelsen, Kjartan S. Anthun, Fanny Goude, Ingrid M. S. Huitfeldt, Unto Häkkinen, Marie Kruse, Emma Medin, Clas Rehnberg, Hanna Rättö and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

A Window on Geographic Variation in Health Care: Insights from EuroHOPE pp. 164-177

Richard Heijink, Peter Engelfriet, Clas Rehnberg, Sverre Kittelsen, Unto Häkkinen and on behalf of the EuroHOPE study Group

Volume 24, issue S1, 2015

Transitioning Between ‘The Old’ and ‘The New’ Long‐Term Care Systems pp. 1-3

Joan Costa‐Font, Jose Luis Fernandez and Katherine Swartz

The Causal Effects of Home Care Use on Institutional Long‐Term Care Utilization and Expenditures pp. 4-17

Jing Guo, R. Tamara Konetzka and Willard Manning

Explaining Declining Rates of Institutional LTC Use in the Netherlands: A Decomposition Approach pp. 18-31

Claudine de Meijer, Pieter Bakx, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Marc Koopmanschap

Testing the Bed‐Blocking Hypothesis: Does Nursing and Care Home Supply Reduce Delayed Hospital Discharges? pp. 32-44

James Gaughan, Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

Financing Long‐Term Care: Ex Ante, Ex Post or Both? pp. 45-57

Joan Costa‐font, Christophe Courbage and Katherine Swartz

Family Structure and Long‐Term Care Insurance Purchase pp. 58-73

Courtney Van Houtven, Norma Coe and R. Tamara Konetzka

Crowding Out of Long‐Term Care Insurance: Evidence from European Expectations Data pp. 74-88

Joan Costa‐Font and Christophe Courbage

Informal Care Motivations and Intergenerational Transfers in European Countries pp. 89-103

Sergi Jiménez‐Martín and Cristina Vilaplana Prieto

The Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving pp. 104-117

Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer

Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented pp. 118-131

Hyunjee Kim and Edward Norton

The Determinants of Care Home Closure pp. 132-145

Stephen Allan and Julien Forder

Local Variability in Long‐Term Care Services: Local Autonomy, Exogenous Influences and Policy Spillovers pp. 146-157

Jose Luis Fernandez and Julien Forder

Volume 24, issue 12, 2015

The Effect of Leisure‐Time Physical Activity on Obesity, Diabetes, High BP and Heart Disease Among Canadians: Evidence from 2000/2001 to 2005/2006 pp. 1531-1547

Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, Jason Gilliland, M. Karen Campbell and Gregory S. Zaric

What Happens to Patterns of Food Consumption when Food Prices Change? Evidence from A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Food Price Elasticities Globally pp. 1548-1559

Laura Cornelsen, Rosemary Green, Rachel Turner, Alan D. Dangour, Bhavani Shankar, Mario Mazzocchi and Richard D. Smith

Does Presumed Consent Save Lives? Evidence from Europe pp. 1560-1572

Zeynep Burcu Ugur

Estimating Lifetime Costs of Social Care: A Bayesian Approach Using Linked Administrative Datasets from Three Geographical Areas pp. 1573-1587

Adam Steventon and Adam Roberts

Putting the Patient in Patient Reported Outcomes: A Robust Methodology for Health Outcomes Assessment pp. 1588-1603

Ian McCarthy

Trends in Managed Care Cost Containment: An Analysis of the Managed Care Backlash pp. 1604-1618

Jerome Dugan

Consumer Health Information and the Demand for Physician Visits pp. 1619-1631

Christian Schmid

On Medical Progress and Health Care Demand: A Ces Perspective Using the Grossman Model of Health Status pp. 1632-1637

Alberto Batinti

Multidimensional Poverty and Health Status as a Predictor of Chronic Income Poverty pp. 1638-1643

Emily J. Callander and Deborah Schofield

The Meth Project and Teen Meth Use: New Estimates from the National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys pp. 1644-1650

D. Mark Anderson and David Elsea

Reconciling Estimates of the Value to Firms of Reduced Regulatory Delay in the Marketing of Their New Drugs pp. 1651-1656

Daniel R. Wilmoth

Volume 24, issue 11, 2015

Preventing Malaria among Children in Zambia: The Role of Mother's Knowledge pp. 1389-1402

Yuriy Pylypchuk and Samuel W. Norton

Too Much of a Good Thing? Exploring the Impact of Wealth on Weight pp. 1403-1421

Nicole Au and David Johnston

Strategic Provider Behavior Under Global Budget Payment with Price Adjustment in Taiwan pp. 1422-1436

Bradley Chen and Victoria Fan

Public Reporting and Demand Rationing: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry pp. 1437-1451

Daifeng He and R. Tamara Konetzka

Effects of a Driver Cellphone Ban on Overall, Handheld, and Hands‐Free Cellphone Use While Driving: New Evidence from Canada pp. 1452-1467

Christopher S. Carpenter and Hai V. Nguyen

Valuing Trial Designs from a Pharmaceutical Perspective Using Value‐Based Pricing pp. 1468-1482

Penny Breeze and Alan Brennan

Distance to Cannabis Shops and Age of Onset of Cannabis Use pp. 1483-1501

Ali Palali and Jan van Ours

The Impact of Smoking Bans on Smoking and Consumer Behavior: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from Switzerland pp. 1502-1516

Stefan Boes, Joachim Marti and Johanna Maclean

Generalized Nutrient Taxes Can Increase Consumer Welfare pp. 1517-1522

David Bishai

Individual Income, Area Deprivation, and Health: Do Income‐Related Health Inequalities Vary by Small Area Deprivation? pp. 1523-1530

Martin Siegel, Andreas Mielck and Werner Maier

Volume 24, issue 10, 2015

Inequality of Opportunity: The New Motherhood and Apple Pie? pp. 1243-1247

Adam Wagstaff and Ravi Kanbur

Rowing against the current pp. 1248-1250

Pedro Rosa Dias

Equality of Opportunity, A Flexible Framework pp. 1250-1252

Erik Schokkaert

Inequality of Opportunity: Reply to Pedro Rosa Dias and Erik Schokkaert pp. 1253-1255

Ravi Kanbur and Adam Wagstaff

The Influence of Cost‐Effectiveness and Other Factors on Nice Decisions pp. 1256-1271

Helen Dakin, Nancy Devlin, Yan Feng, Nigel Rice, Phill O'Neill and David Parkin

Get a Life? The Impact of the European Working Time Directive: The Case of UK Senior Doctors pp. 1272-1288

Peter Dolton, Michael P Kidd and Jonas Fooken

The Willingness to Pay for a Quality Adjusted Life Year: A Review of the Empirical Literature pp. 1289-1301

Linda Ryen and Mikael Svensson

Self‐Employment and Health: Barriers or Benefits? pp. 1302-1313

Cornelius A. Rietveld, Hans van Kippersluis and Roy Thurik

How Do Smokers Respond to Cigarette Taxes? Evidence from China's Cigarette Industry pp. 1314-1330

Hong Liu, John Rizzo, Qi Sun and Fang Wu

Who Opts out of the Statutory Health Insurance? A Discrete Time Hazard Model for Germany pp. 1331-1347

Christian Bünnings and Harald Tauchmann

Inequity in the Face of Death pp. 1348-1367

Pilar García‐Gómez, Erik Schokkaert, Tom Van Ourti and Teresa Bago d'Uva

The Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model – A Mathematical Description pp. 1368-1388

Alan Brennan, Petra Meier, Robin Purshouse, Rachid Rafia, Yang Meng, Daniel Hill‐Macmanus, Colin Angus and John Holmes

Volume 24, issue 9, 2015

Editors' Introduction pp. 1049-1049

Andrew Jones, Owen O'Donnell, Anthony Scott and Michael Shields

Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence from Italy pp. 1050-1064

Sofia Amaral‐Garcia, Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

Constraints on Compliance and the Impact of Health Information in Rural Pakistan pp. 1065-1081

Daniel Bennett, Asjad Naqvi and Wolf‐Peter Schmidt

Childhood Obesity and Cognitive Achievement pp. 1082-1100

Nicole Black, David Johnston and Anna Peeters

Attrition Bias in Panel Data: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? A Case Study Based on the Mabel Survey pp. 1101-1117

Terence Cheng and Pravin Trivedi

GP responses to price regulation: evidence from a French nationwide reform pp. 1118-1130

Elise Coudin, Anne Pla and Anne-Laure Samson

Effects of Geographical Accessibility on the Use of Outpatient Care Services: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from Panel Count Data pp. 1131-1146

Péter Elek, Balázs Váradi and Márton Varga

Do High Consumers of Sugar‐Sweetened Beverages Respond Differently to Price Changes? A Finite Mixture IV‐Tobit Approach pp. 1147-1163

Fabrice Etilé and Anurag Sharma

Healthcare Demand in the Presence of Discrete Price Changes pp. 1164-1177

Michael Gerfin, Boris Kaiser and Christian Schmid

Long‐term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply – A Structural Model pp. 1178-1191

Johannes Geyer and Thorben Korfhage

Healthcare Cost Regressions: Going Beyond the Mean to Estimate the Full Distribution pp. 1192-1212

Andrew Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice

Evaluation of the Effect of a Continuous Treatment: A Machine Learning Approach with an Application to Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury pp. 1213-1228

Noemi Kreif, Richard Grieve, Iván Díaz and David Harrison

Paying for Primary Care: The Factors Associated with Physician Self‐selection into Payment Models pp. 1229-1242

David Rudoler, Raisa Deber, Janet Barnsley, Richard H. Glazier, Adrian Rohit Dass and Audrey Laporte

Volume 24, issue 8, 2015

What are the Costs and Benefits of Providing Comprehensive Seven‐day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions? pp. 907-912

Rachel Meacock, Tim Doran and Matt Sutton

The Effectiveness of Health Screening pp. 913-935

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Michael Hummer and Gerald Pruckner

Unemployment and Suicide Mortality: Evidence from Regional Panel Data in Europe pp. 936-950

Christian Breuer

Empirical Testing of the External Validity of a Discrete Choice Experiment to Determine Preferred Treatment Option: The Case of Sleep Apnea pp. 951-965

Nicolas Krucien, Amiram Gafni and Nathalie Pelletier‐Fleury

Price‐cap Regulation, Uncertainty and the Price Evolution of New Pharmaceuticals pp. 966-977

Ali Shajarizadeh and Aidan Hollis

Drug Launch Timing and International Reference Pricing pp. 978-989

Nicolas Houy and Izabela Jelovac

How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from a Deregulated Market for Cardiac Revascularization pp. 990-1008

Suhui Li and Avi Dor

Medicare Part B Intensity and Volume Offset pp. 1009-1026

Christopher S. Brunt

Machines that Go ‘Ping’: Medical Technology and Health Expenditures in OECD Countries pp. 1027-1041

Peter Willemé and Michel Dumont

Tobacco Control Policies and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Developed Nations pp. 1042-1048

Christian King, Sara Markowitz and Hana Ross

Volume 24, issue 7, 2015

Accounting for Attribute‐Level Non‐Attendance in a Health Choice Experiment: Does it Matter? pp. 773-789

Seda Erdem, Danny Campbell and Arne Hole

Measuring the Hospital Length of Stay/Readmission Cost Trade‐Off Under a Bundled Payment Mechanism pp. 790-802

Kathleen Carey

The Dow is Killing Me: Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market pp. 803-821

Chad Cotti, Richard Dunn and Nathan Tefft

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Minimum Staffing Standards for Nursing Homes pp. 822-839

Min M. Chen and David C. Grabowski

The Effect of Dental Insurance on the Use of Dental Care for Older Adults: A Partial Identification Analysis pp. 840-858

Brent Kreider, Richard J. Manski, John Moeller and John Pepper

Impact of FDA Actions, DTCA, and Public Information on the Market for Pain Medication pp. 859-875

W. David Bradford and Andrew N. Kleit

Childhood Maltreatment and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from South Africa pp. 876-894

Duncan Pieterse

Payment Mechanisms and the Composition of Physician Practices: Balancing Cost‐Containment, Access, and Quality of Care pp. 895-906

Victoria Barham and Olga Milliken

Volume 24, issue 6, 2015

Going Formal or Informal, Who Cares? The Influence of Public Long‐Term Care Insurance pp. 631-643

Pieter Bakx, Claudine de Meijer, Frederik Schut and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The Volume‐Outcome Relationship and Minimum Volume Standards – Empirical Evidence for Germany pp. 644-658

Corinna Hentschker and Roman Mennicken

Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 659-671

Daniel I. Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

The Impact of Health Insurance on Health Outcomes and Spending of the Elderly: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme pp. 672-691

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang, Ke Shen and Yi Zeng

Sickness Absence, Moral Hazard, and the Business Cycle pp. 692-710

Stefan Pichler

Maternal Employment During Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Danish Siblings pp. 711-725

Miriam Wüst

On the Optimal Production Capacity for Influenza Vaccine pp. 726-741

Rikard Forslid and Mathias Herzing

Distributional Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis of Health Care Programmes – A Methodological Case Study of the UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme pp. 742-754

Miqdad Asaria, Susan Griffin, Richard Cookson, Sophie Whyte and Paul Tappenden

Realigning Demand and Supply Side Incentives to Improve Primary Health Care Seeking in Rural China pp. 755-772

Timothy Powell‐Jackson, Winnie Chi‐Man Yip and Wei Han

Volume 24, issue 5, 2015

Cost‐effectiveness Analysis and Insurance Coverage: Solving a Puzzle pp. 506-515

Mark Pauly

Winning Big but Feeling no Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health pp. 516-538

Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew Clark

Implications of Utilization Shifts on Medical‐care Price Measurement pp. 539-557

Abe Dunn, Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro

The Effect of Medicaid on Health Care Consumption of Young Adults pp. 558-565

Dominic Coey

Non‐Linear Effects of Soda Taxes on Consumption and Weight Outcomes pp. 566-582

Jason Fletcher, David Frisvold and Nathan Tefft

The Effects of A Soft Drink Tax in the UK pp. 583-600

Richard Tiffin, Ariane Kehlbacher and Matthew Salois

Do Fertility Control Policies Affect Health in Old Age? Evidence from China's One‐Child Experiment pp. 601-616

Asad Islam and Russell Smyth

Estimating the Benefits of Public Health Policies that Reduce Harmful Consumption pp. 617-624

Elizabeth M. Ashley, Clark Nardinelli and Rosemarie A. Lavaty

Test–Retest Reliability of Capability Measurement in the UK General Population pp. 625-630

Hareth Al‐Janabi, Terry N. Flynn, Tim J. Peters, Stirling Bryan and Joanna Coast

Volume 24, issue 4, 2015

The Impact of Community‐Based Health Insurance on Utilization and Out‐of‐Pocket Expenditures in Lao People's Democratic Republic pp. 379-399

Sarah Alkenbrack and Magnus Lindelow

A Pint for A Pound? Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Birth Outcomes pp. 400-418

Alan Barreca and Marianne Page

The Effects of Alcohol on the Consumption of Hard Drugs: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 pp. 419-438

Monica Deza

The Effect of Financial and Educational Incentives on Rational Prescribing. A State‐Space Approach pp. 439-453

Petros Pechlivanoglou, Jaap E. Wieringa, Tim de Jager and Maarten J. Postma

Do Diagnosis‐Related Group‐Based Payments Incentivise Hospitals to Adjust Output Mix? pp. 454-469

Li‐Lin Liang

Responsibility‐Sensitive Fairness in Health Financing: Judgments in Four European Countries pp. 470-480

Christine Le Clainche and Jerome Wittwer

Communicating the Parameter Uncertainty in the IQWiG Efficiency Frontier to Decision‐Makers pp. 481-490

Björn Stollenwerk, Stefan K. Lhachimi, Andrew Briggs, Elisabeth Fenwick, Jaime J. Caro, Uwe Siebert, Marion Danner and Andreas Gerber‐Grote

Suicide and Organ Donors: Spillover Effects of Mental Health Insurance Mandates pp. 491-497

Jose Fernandez and Matthew Lang

Rational Centre Selection for RCTs with a Parallel Economic Evaluation—the Next Step Towards Increased Generalisability? pp. 498-504

Adrian Gheorghe, Tracy Roberts, Thomas D. Pinkney, Dion G. Morton and Melanie Calvert

Volume 24, issue 3, 2015

In Memoriam: Willard G. Manning, 1946‐2014 pp. 253-257

John Mullahy

Scoring the Icecap‐a Capability Instrument. Estimation of a UK General Population Tariff pp. 258-269

Terry N. Flynn, Elisabeth Huynh, Tim J. Peters, Hareth Al‐Janabi, Sam Clemens, Alison Moody and Joanna Coast

A Comparison of Outpatient Healthcare Expenditures Between Public and Private Medical Institutions in Urban China: An Instrumental Variable Approach pp. 270-279

Judy Xu, Gordon Liu, Guoying Deng, Lin Li, Xianjun Xiong and Kisalaya Basu

Comparing WTP Values of Different Types of QALY Gain Elicited from the General Public pp. 280-293

Mark Pennington, Rachel Baker, Werner Brouwer, Helen Mason, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Angela Robinson, Cam Donaldson and the EuroVaQ Team

Value‐Based Differential Pricing: Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context pp. 294-301

Patricia Danzon, Adrian Towse and Jorge Mestre‐Ferrandiz

Differential Labour Market Impacts from Disability Onset pp. 302-317

Cain Polidano and Ha Vu

Universal Public Finance of Tuberculosis Treatment in India: An Extended Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis pp. 318-332

Stéphane Verguet, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Dean T. Jamison

The Impact of Work‐Limiting Disability on Labor Force Participation pp. 333-352

Douglas Webber and Melissa J. Bjelland

The Tougher the Better: An Economic Analysis of Increased Payment Thresholds on the Performance of General Practices pp. 353-371

Yan Feng, Ada Ma, Shelley Farrar and Matt Sutton

Taxonomy for Methods of Resource Use Measurement pp. 372-378

Colin H. Ridyard, Dyfrig A. Hughes and Team Dirum

Volume 24, issue 2, 2015

Smokers' Strategic Responses to Sin Taxes: Evidence from Panel Data in Thailand pp. 127-141

Justin S. White and Hana Ross

The Effect of Medicaid Policies on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Children's Mental Health Problems in Primary Care pp. 142-157

Lesley Turner

Are Physicians' Prescribing Decisions Sensitive to Drug Prices? Evidence from a Free‐antibiotics Program pp. 158-174

Shanjun Li and Ramanan Laxminarayan

Do Public Smoking Bans have an Impact on Active Smoking? Evidence from the UK pp. 175-192

Andrew Jones, Audrey Laporte, Nigel Rice and Eugenio Zucchelli

To Count or Not to Count Deaths: Reranking Effects in Health Distribution Evaluation pp. 193-205

Yves Arrighi, Mohammad Abu‐Zaineh and Bruno Ventelou

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession pp. 206-223

John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya and Kosali Simon

Informal Care and Caregiver's Health pp. 224-237

Young Kyung Do, Edward Norton, Sally C. Stearns and Courtney Van Houtven

Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition, and Procurement pp. 238-252

Patricia Danzon, Andrew W. Mulcahy and Adrian Towse

Volume 24, issue 1, 2015

CAUSES FOR CONCERN: IS NICE FAILING TO UPHOLD ITS RESPONSIBILITIES TO ALL NHS PATIENTS? pp. 1-7

Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Stephen Palmer and Anthony Culyer

SELF‐PERCEIVED JOB INSECURITY AND THE DEMAND FOR MEDICAL REHABILITATION: DOES FEAR OF UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCE HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION? pp. 8-25

Arndt Reichert, Boris Augurzky and Harald Tauchmann

EFFECTS OF BICYCLE HELMET LAWS ON CHILDREN'S INJURIES pp. 26-40

Sara Markowitz and Pinka Chatterji

INTER‐PROVIDER COMPARISON OF PATIENT‐REPORTED OUTCOMES: DEVELOPING AN ADJUSTMENT TO ACCOUNT FOR DIFFERENCES IN PATIENT CASE MIX pp. 41-54

David Nuttall, David Parkin and Nancy Devlin

IS THE MEDICAL LOSS RATIO A GOOD TARGET MEASURE FOR REGULATION IN THE INDIVIDUAL MARKET FOR HEALTH INSURANCE? pp. 55-74

Pinar Karaca‐Mandic, Jean M. Abraham and Kosali Simon

MEASURING OVERFITTING IN NONLINEAR MODELS: A NEW METHOD AND AN APPLICATION TO HEALTH EXPENDITURES pp. 75-85

Marcel Bilger and Willard Manning

PAYMENTS, PROMOTION, AND THE PURPLE PILL pp. 86-103

David Ridley

THE POVERTY EFFECTS OF A ‘FAT‐TAX’ IN IRELAND pp. 104-121

David Madden