Health Economics

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Volume 23, issue 12, 2014

THE IMPACT OF TOBACCO CONTROL EXPENDITURES ON SMOKING INITIATION AND CESSATION pp. 1397-1410

Joachim Marti

HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY ASSIMILATION: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR AMONG IMMIGRANTS pp. 1411-1429

Leigh Ann Leung

CHILD‐TO‐TEACHER RATIO AND DAY CARE TEACHER SICKNESS ABSENTEEISM pp. 1430-1442

Mette Gørtz and Elvira Andersson

TIME DISCOUNTING AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR: EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL SURVEY* pp. 1443-1464

Myong‐Il Kang and Shinsuke Ikeda

CAN DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS PROVIDE A SCALAR INDEX OF ‘VALUE’? pp. 1465-1480

Bryan Dowd, Tami Swenson, Robert Kane, Shriram Parashuram and Robert Coulam

REGIONAL VARIATION IN THE UTILISATION OF AMBULATORY SERVICES IN GERMANY pp. 1481-1492

Thomas Kopetsch and Hendrik Schmitz

THE ROLE OF TIME PREFERENCES IN THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER OF SMOKING pp. 1493-1501

Heather Brown and Marjon van der Pol

THE EFFECT OF SEX RATIOS ON SUICIDE pp. 1502-1510

Masanori Kuroki

Volume 23, issue 11, 2014

THE JANUARY EFFECT: MEDICATION REINITIATION AMONG MEDICARE PART D BENEFICIARIES pp. 1287-1300

Cameron Kaplan and Yuting Zhang

A PRESCRIPTION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT? RECESSIONS AND THE DEMAND FOR MENTAL HEALTH DRUGS pp. 1301-1325

W. David Bradford and William Lastrapes

BANKRUPTCY, MEDICAL INSURANCE, AND A LAW WITH UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES pp. 1326-1339

Thomas G. Koch

QUALITY–QUANTITY DECOMPOSITION OF INCOME ELASTICITY OF U.S. HOSPITAL CARE EXPENDITURE USING STATE‐LEVEL PANEL DATA pp. 1340-1352

Weiwei Chen, Albert Okunade and Gregory G. Lubiani

WHERE THERE'S SMOKING, THERE'S FIRE: THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING POLICIES ON THE INCIDENCE OF FIRES IN THE USA pp. 1353-1373

Sara Markowitz

HAS INCREASED BODY WEIGHT MADE DRIVING SAFER? pp. 1374-1389

Richard Dunn and Nathan Tefft

UNDERSTANDING THE VERTICAL EQUITY JUDGEMENTS UNDERPINNING HEALTH INEQUALITY MEASURES pp. 1390-1396

Paul Allanson and Dennis Petrie

Volume 23, issue 10, 2014

A COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN? LONG‐TERM HOME CARE UTILIZATION IN EUROPE pp. 1185-1212

Silvia Balia and Rinaldo Brau

THE RANDOM CARD SORT METHOD AND RESPONDENT CERTAINTY IN CONTINGENT VALUATION: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF RANGE BIAS pp. 1213-1223

Phil Shackley and Simon Dixon

THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTENSITY OF SERVICE PROVISION ON PHYSICIAN EXPENDITURES: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION pp. 1224-1241

Mehrdad Roham, Anait R. Gabrielyan, Norman P. Archer, Michel Grignon and Byron Spencer

COST‐OFFSETS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG EXPENDITURES: DATA ANALYSIS VIA A COPULA‐BASED BIVARIATE DYNAMIC HURDLE MODEL pp. 1242-1259

Partha Deb, Pravin Trivedi and David Zimmer

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ALCOHOL DEMAND: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF PRICES AND TAXES pp. 1260-1280

Jon Nelson

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ALCOHOL DEMAND: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF PRICES AND TAXES. COMMENT ON CONCLUSIONS BY NELSON pp. 1281-1283

Anne Ludbrook, John Holmes and Tim Stockwell

REPLY TO A COMMENT BY LUDBROOK, HOLMES, AND STOCKWELL: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ALCOHOL DEMAND pp. 1284-1286

Jon Nelson

Volume 23, issue 9, 2014

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION pp. 993-993

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

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND MALARIA PREVENTIVE BEHAVIORS IN SUB‐SAHARAN AFRICA pp. 994-1012

Bénédicte Apouey and Gabriel Picone

BIRTH WEIGHT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDHOOD pp. 1013-1035

Pinka Chatterji, Dohyung Kim and Kajal Lahiri

THE WELFARE IMPACT OF PARALLEL IMPORTS: A STRUCTURAL APPROACH APPLIED TO THE GERMAN MARKET FOR ORAL ANTI‐DIABETICS pp. 1036-1057

Tomaso Duso, Annika Herr and Moritz Suppliet

THE EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN PANEL DATA pp. 1058-1071

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

THRESHOLD EFFECTS IN NONLINEAR MODELS WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE SOCIAL CAPITAL‐RETIREMENT‐HEALTH RELATIONSHIP pp. 1072-1083

Brenda Gannon, David Harris and Mark Harris

CORRECTION OF MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR IN DISABILITY RATES pp. 1084-1097

Amanda Gosling and Eirini-Christina Saloniki

ESTIMATING HEALTH STATE UTILITY VALUES FROM DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS—A QALY SPACE MODEL APPROACH pp. 1098-1114

Yuanyuan Gu, Richard Norman and Rosalie Viney

WHAT EXPLAINS THE QUALITY AND PRICE OF GP SERVICES? AN INVESTIGATION USING LINKED SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA pp. 1115-1133

Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage

DIFFERENCE IN DIFFERENCES FOR STAYERS WITH A TIME‐VARYING QUALIFICATION: HEALTH EXPENDITURE ELASTICITY OF THE ELDERLY pp. 1134-1145

Myoung-jae Lee and Young‐Sook Kim

THE EFFECT OF NONCOGNITIVE TRAITS ON HEALTH BEHAVIOURS IN ADOLESCENCE pp. 1146-1158

Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

THE EFFECTS OF TAXING SUGAR‐SWEETENED BEVERAGES ACROSS DIFFERENT INCOME GROUPS pp. 1159-1184

Anurag Sharma, Katharina Hauck, Bruce Hollingsworth and Luigi Siciliani

Volume 23, issue 8, 2014

WHAT ROLES DO CONTEMPORANEOUS AND CUMULATIVE INCOMES PLAY IN THE INCOME–CHILD HEALTH GRADIENT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN? EVIDENCE FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PANEL pp. 879-893

Rasheda Khanam, Hong Son Nghiem and Luke Brian Connelly

CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES, MATERNAL HEALTH, AND CHILD–PARENT INTERACTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THREE NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE DATASETS pp. 894-916

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

EFFECTS OF NCMS ON ACCESS TO CARE AND FINANCIAL PROTECTION IN CHINA pp. 917-934

Zhiyuan Hou, Ellen Van de Poel, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Baorong Yu and Qingyue Meng

THE LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S MINIMUM NURSE STAFFING LAW pp. 935-950

Elizabeth Munnich

THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE TOWARD THE END OF LIFE: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN pp. 951-961

Simon Chang, Yang He and Chee‐Ruey Hsieh

PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO PAY‐FOR‐PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT pp. 962-978

Jinhu Li, Jeremiah Hurley, Philip DeCicca and Gioia Buckley

USING COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ESTIMATES FROM SURVEY DATA TO GUIDE COMMISSIONING: AN APPLICATION TO HOME CARE pp. 979-992

Julien Forder, Juliette Malley, Ann‐Marie Towers and Ann Netten

Volume 23, issue 7, 2014

PRICING DISTORTIONS IN MEDICARE'S PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE AND PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH CARE QUALITY AND ACCESS pp. 761-775

Christopher S. Brunt and Gail A. Jensen

ONE MAN'S TALL IS ANOTHER MAN'S SMALL: HOW THE FRAMING OF PORTION SIZE INFLUENCES FOOD CHOICE pp. 776-791

David Just and Brian Wansink

AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING THE SOCIAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR HEALTH STATE IMPROVEMENT pp. 792-805

Jeff Richardson, Angelo Iezzi, Kompal Sinha, Munir A. Khan and John Mckie

DISCLOSING TOTAL WAITING TIMES FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE ENGLISH NHS USING LINKED HES DATA pp. 806-820

Elsa Marques, Sian Noble, Ashley W. Blom and William Hollingworth

MEDICARE SKILLED NURSING FACILITY REIMBURSEMENT AND UPCODING pp. 821-840

John Bowblis and Christopher S. Brunt

DID REFORM OF THE NON‐GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET AFFECT THE DECISION TO BE SELF‐EMPLOYED? EVIDENCE FROM STATE REFORMS IN THE 1990s pp. 841-860

Bradley Heim and Ithai Z. Lurie

A SHORT NOTE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN FEMALE BODY WEIGHT pp. 861-869

Eva Deuchert, Sofie Cabus and Darjusch Tafreschi

SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELING OF AGE‐SPECIFIC VARIATIONS IN INCOME RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITIES pp. 870-878

Martin Siegel and Karl Mosler

Volume 23, issue 6, 2014

THE MOTIVES OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER TO THE ELDERLY PARENTS IN CHINA: CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH MEDICAL EXPENDITURE pp. 631-652

Xiaoyu Wu and Lixing Li

MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COSTS AND OUTCOMES: THE EXAMPLE OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN GERMAN HOSPITALS pp. 653-669

Tom Stargardt, Jonas Schreyögg and Ivan Kondofersky

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE IN GERMANY: THE IGNORED RISK SELECTION PROBLEM pp. 670-687

Martina Grunow and Robert Nuscheler

SUPPLY‐SIDE RESPONSE TO DECLINING HEROIN PURITY: FENTANYL OVERDOSE EPISODE IN NEW JERSEY pp. 688-705

Katherine Hempstead and Emel O. Yildirim

ARE HEALTH SHOCKS DIFFERENT? EVIDENCE FROM A MULTISHOCK SURVEY IN LAOS pp. 706-718

Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow

COPING WITH THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF ILL HEALTH IN INDONESIA pp. 719-728

Robert Sparrow, Ellen Van de Poel, Gracia Hadiwidjaja, Athia Yumna, Nila Warda and Asep Suryahadi

AN AUSTRALIAN DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT TO VALUE EQ‐5D HEALTH STATES pp. 729-742

Rosalie Viney, Richard Norman, John Brazier, Paula Cronin, Madeleine T. King, Julie Ratcliffe and Deborah Street

TIMING EFFECTS IN HEALTH VALUATIONS pp. 743-750

Andrea Leiter and Gerald Pruckner

THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON OBESITY IN CANADA pp. 751-759

Ehsan Latif

Volume 23, issue 5, 2014

HEALTH INSURANCE TAX CREDITS, THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT, AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE OF SINGLE MOTHERS pp. 501-515

Merve Cebi and Stephen Woodbury

THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH SHOCKS ON HOURS WORKED pp. 516-528

Lixin Cai, Kostas Mavromaras and Umut Oguzoglu

REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SELF‐REPORTED HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE OLDER ADULTS pp. 529-549

Ren Mu

FRAMING THE WILLINGNESS‐TO‐PAY QUESTION: IMPACT ON RESPONSE PATTERNS AND MEAN WILLINGNESS TO PAY pp. 550-563

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen, Mette Lundsby Jensen and Trine Kjaer

DO THEY KNOW WHAT IS AT RISK? HEALTH RISK PERCEPTION AMONG THE OBESE pp. 564-585

Joachim Winter and Amelie Wuppermann

FROM SOCIAL CAPITAL TO HEALTH – AND BACK pp. 586-605

Lorenzo Rocco, Elena Fumagalli and Marc Suhrcke

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF IMMUNIZATIONS TIMING ON CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES IN INDIA pp. 606-620

Alok Bhargava, Aravinda Guntupalli, Michael Lokshin and Larry L. Howard

THERAPEUTIC SUBSTITUTION POST‐PATENT EXPIRY: THE CASES OF ACE INHIBITORS AND PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS pp. 621-630

Sotiris Vandoros

Volume 23, issue 4, 2014

BREAKING THE ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION pp. 379-383

Stirling Bryan, Craig Mitton and Cam Donaldson

ASSESSING WHETHER THERE IS A CANCER PREMIUM FOR THE VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE pp. 384-396

W Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell

MULTILATERAL CONTRACTING AND PREVENTION pp. 397-409

Brandon Pope, Abhijit Deshmukh, Andrew Johnson and James Rohack

DERIVING TIME DISCOUNTING CORRECTION FACTORS FOR TTO TARIFFS pp. 410-425

Arthur Attema and Werner Brouwer

BIRTH WEIGHT AND FAMILY STATUS REVISITED: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRIAN REGISTER DATA pp. 426-445

Wolfgang Frimmel and Gerald Pruckner

WAITING TIME AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS—AN INDIVIDUAL‐LEVEL ANALYSIS pp. 446-461

Karin Monstad, Lars Birger Engesæter and Birgitte Espehaug

CAN WE MAKE SMART CHOICES BETWEEN OLS AND CONTAMINATED IV METHODS? pp. 462-472

Anirban Basu and Kwun Chuen Gary Chan

INCREASING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEALTH‐INCOME GRADIENT IN CHILDREN pp. 473-486

Jason Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe

THE EFFECT OF DIABETES COMPLICATIONS ON HEALTH‐RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE: THE IMPORTANCE OF LONGITUDINAL DATA TO ADDRESS PATIENT HETEROGENEITY pp. 487-500

Maria Alva, Alastair Gray, Borislava Mihaylova and Philip Clarke

Volume 23, issue 3, 2014

CHILD PROTECTION AND ADULT DEPRESSION: EVALUATING THE LONG‐TERM CONSEQUENCES OF EVACUATING CHILDREN TO FOSTER CARE DURING WORLD WAR II pp. 253-267

Nina Santavirta and Torsten Santavirta

DISABILITY AND MARGINAL UTILITY OF INCOME: EVIDENCE FROM HYPOTHETICAL CHOICES pp. 268-282

Sven Tengstam

Q‐ING FOR HEALTH—A NEW APPROACH TO ELICITING THE PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON HEALTH CARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION pp. 283-297

Rachel Baker, John Wildman, Helen Mason and Cam Donaldson

COMPETITION AND QUALITY IN HOME HEALTH CARE MARKETS pp. 298-313

Kyoungrae Jung and Daniel Polsky

INCOME AND THE USE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR NEAR RETIREMENT INDIVIDUALS pp. 314-331

SØren Leth‐Petersen and Niels Skipper

THE IMPACT OF MENTAL AND SUBSTANCE‐USE DISORDERS ON EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS pp. 332-344

Marjorie L. Baldwin and Steven C. Marcus

‘BEHOLD, A VIRGIN IS WITH HIV!’ MISREPORTING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG INFECTED ADOLESCENTS pp. 345-358

Vidhura Tennekoon and Robert Rosenman

HETEROGENEITY IN ACTION: THE ROLE OF PASSIVE PERSONALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH pp. 359-373

Anirban Basu, Anupam B. Jena, Dana Goldman, Tomas Philipson and Robert Dubois

COMMENT ON ‘HETEROGENEITY IN ACTION: THE ROLE OF PASSIVE PERSONALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH’ pp. 374-375

David Epstein

RESPONSE TO EPSTEIN'S COMMENT ON “HETEROGENEITY IN ACTION” pp. 376-378

Anirban Basu, Anupam B. Jena, Dana Goldman, Tomas Philipson and Robert Dubois

Volume 23, issue 2, 2014

MEASURING THE DISPLACEMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPENDITURE pp. 129-140

Joseph L. Dieleman and Michael Hanlon

FUNDING HIV‐VACCINE RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES—WHAT IS WRONG WITH IAVI's RECOMMENDATION? pp. 141-158

Diana Sonntag

THE EFFECTS OF CHILDHOOD ADHD ON ADULT LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES pp. 159-181

Jason Fletcher

EX‐ANTE AND EX‐POST MEASUREMENT OF EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH: A NORMATIVE DECOMPOSITION pp. 182-198

Paolo Li Donni, Vito Peragine and Giuseppe Pignataro

DOES FISCAL DISCIPLINE TOWARDS SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AFFECT CITIZENS' WELL‐BEING? EVIDENCE ON HEALTH pp. 199-224

Massimiliano Piacenza and Gilberto Turati

HEALTH CARE AND IDEOLOGY: A RECONSIDERATION OF POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDING IN THE OECD pp. 225-240

Helmut Herwartz and Bernd Theilen

WHAT MAKES WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES HAPPY? THE IMPORTANCE OF NON‐PECUNIARY CHARACTERISTICS pp. 241-247

Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

PRIORITY SETTING IN GLOBAL HEALTH: TOWARDS A MINIMUM DALY VALUE pp. 248-252

Tom Drake

Volume 23, issue 1, 2014

THE COST‐EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO IMPROVE PROVIDER QUALITY: A FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION pp. 1-13

Rachel Meacock, Søren Kristensen and Matt Sutton

THE DEMAND FOR PREVENTIVE AND RESTORATIVE DENTAL SERVICES pp. 14-32

Chad Meyerhoefer, Samuel H. Zuvekas and Richard Manski

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM CANADA pp. 33-54

Brad Humphreys, Logan McLeod and Jane Ruseski

CAN PRICE GET THE MONKEY OFF OUR BACK? A META‐ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUG DEMAND pp. 55-68

Craig A. Gallet

FETAL HEALTH SHOCKS AND EARLY INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH CAPITAL ACCUMULATION pp. 69-92

George L. Wehby, Kwame A. Nyarko and Jorge S. Lopez‐Camelo

WAITING TIMES AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. EVIDENCE FROM NORWAY pp. 93-107

Oddvar Kaarboe and Fredrik Carlsen

PRICE CONTROLS FOR MEDICAL INNOVATIONS IN A LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE pp. 108-116

Gilad Sorek

A CONSISTENT DECOMPOSITION OF THE REDISTRIBUTIVE, VERTICAL, AND HORIZONTAL EFFECTS OF HEALTH CARE FINANCE BY FACTOR COMPONENTS pp. 117-121

Luis Hierro, Rosario Gómez‐Álvarez and Pedro Atienza