Health Economics

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Volume 22, issue 12, 2013

AXIOMATIC FOUNDATIONS FOR COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS pp. 1405-1416

David Canning

LINK BETWEEN PAY FOR PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES AND PHYSICIAN PAYMENT MECHANISMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE DIABETES MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE IN ONTARIO pp. 1417-1439

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

GENERAL BUDGET SUPPORT: HAS IT BENEFITED THE HEALTH SECTOR? pp. 1440-1451

Adelio Fernandes Antunes, Ke Xu, Chris D. James, Priyanka Saksena, Nathalie Van de Maele, Guy Carrin and David B. Evans

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: INVESTIGATING DOCTORS' STATED PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY FOR JOB INCENTIVES TO INFORM POLICY IN THAILAND pp. 1452-1469

Mylene Lagarde, Nonglak Pagaiya, Viroj Tangcharoensathian and Duane Blaauw

CIRCUMSTANCES AND EFFORTS: HOW IMPORTANT IS THEIR CORRELATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH? pp. 1470-1495

Florence Jusot, Sandy Tubeuf and Alain Trannoy

WOULD YOU RATHER BE ILL NOW, OR LATER? pp. 1496-1506

Arthur Attema and Matthijs M. Versteegh

Optimal decision rules for HTA under uncertainty: a wider, dynamic perspective pp. 1507-1514

Martin Forster and Paolo Pertile

Volume 22, issue 11, 2013

UNCERTAINTY AND THE DECISION MAKER: ASSESSING AND MANAGING THE RISK OF UNDESIRABLE OUTCOMES pp. 1287-1294

Amiram Gafni, Stephen Walter and Stephen Birch

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS WITH SEMI‐ANONYMOUS MATCHING pp. 1295-1317

Bryan Engelhardt, Mark R. Kurt and Philip M. Polgreen

ACCOUNTING FOR PRODUCT SUBSTITUTION IN THE ANALYSIS OF FOOD TAXES TARGETING OBESITY pp. 1318-1343

Zhen Miao, John Beghin and Helen Jensen

THE EFFECTS OF EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT PAYMENT EXPANSION ON MATERNAL SMOKING pp. 1344-1359

Susan Averett and Yang Wang

IS THERE A MEDICAID PENALTY? THE EFFECT OF HOSPITALS' MEDICAID POPULATION ON THEIR PRIVATE PAYER MARKET SHARE pp. 1360-1376

Andrew Sfekas

THE DETERMINANTS OF PRICING IN PHARMACEUTICALS: ARE US PRICES REALLY SO HIGH? pp. 1377-1397

Antonio Cabrales and Sergi Jiménez‐Martín

EXTENSIONS OF HURDLE MODELS FOR OVERDISPERSED COUNT DATA pp. 1398-1404

Helmut Farbmacher

Volume 22, issue 10, 2013

BORROWING TO COPE WITH ADVERSE HEALTH EVENTS: LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS, INSURANCE COVERAGE, AND UNSECURED DEBT pp. 1177-1198

Patryk Babiarz, Richard Widdows and Tansel Yilmazer

PARENTAL INCOME AND THE DYNAMICS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD—EVIDENCE FROM THE UK pp. 1199-1214

Kai Eberhard Kruk

THE EFFECT OF HOSPITAL–PHYSICIAN INTEGRATION ON HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION pp. 1215-1229

Eric Lammers

“DO I STAY OR DO I GO?”—JOB CHANGE AND LABOR MARKET EXIT INTENTIONS OF EMPLOYEES PROVIDING INFORMAL CARE TO OLDER ADULTS pp. 1230-1249

Ulrike Schneider, Birgit Trukeschitz, Richard Mühlmann and Ivo Ponocny

INFORMAL PAYMENTS AND HEALTH WORKER EFFORT: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY FROM TANZANIA pp. 1250-1271

Ida Lindkvist

VALUING QALY GAINS BY APPLYING A SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVE pp. 1272-1281

Ana Bobinac, Job van Exel, Frans F. H. Rutten and Werner Brouwer

WHEN DO FAT TAXES INCREASE CONSUMER WELFARE? COMMENT ON A CLAIM BY LUSK AND SCHROETER pp. 1282-1283

Jon R. Neill

WHEN DO FAT TAXES INCREASE CONSUMER WELFARE? REPLY TO NEILL pp. 1284-1286

Jayson Lusk and Christiane Schroeter

Volume 22, issue 9, 2013

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION pp. 1003-1003

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

SPILLOVERS OF HEALTH EDUCATION AT SCHOOL ON PARENTS' PHYSICAL ACTIVITY pp. 1004-1020

Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata and Nieves Valdés

DISCOUNT RATES AND THE EDUCATION GRADIENT IN MAMMOGRAPHY IN THE UK pp. 1021-1036

Anikó Bíró

AIRCRAFT NOISE, HEALTH, AND RESIDENTIAL SORTING: EVIDENCE FROM TWO QUASI‐EXPERIMENTS pp. 1037-1051

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nüesch and Steven Stillman

HIGHLIGHTING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONDITIONAL AND UNCONDITIONAL QUANTILE REGRESSION APPROACHES THROUGH AN APPLICATION TO ASSESS MEDICATION ADHERENCE pp. 1052-1070

Bijan J. Borah and Anirban Basu

THE CYCLICAL BEHAVIOUR OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH EXPENDITURE IN CHINA pp. 1071-1092

Gang Chen, Brett Inder, Paula Lorgelly and Bruce Hollingsworth

EXPLAINING HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE VARIATION: LARGE‐SAMPLE EVIDENCE USING LINKED SURVEY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATIVE DATA pp. 1093-1110

Randall Ellis, Denzil Fiebig, Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones and Elizabeth Savage

PER‐PERIOD CO‐PAYMENTS AND THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE: EVIDENCE FROM SURVEY AND CLAIMS DATA pp. 1111-1123

Helmut Farbmacher and Joachim Winter

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL HOUSING ON THE LABOUR MARKET STATUS OF THE DISABLED pp. 1124-1138

Stéphane Gregoir and Tristan-Pierre Maury

GETTING STUCK IN THE BLUES: PERSISTENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN AUSTRALIA pp. 1139-1157

John Roy and Stefanie Schurer

PATIENT SAFETY IN HOSPITALS – A BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF UNOBSERVABLE HOSPITAL AND SPECIALTY LEVEL RISK FACTORS pp. 1158-1174

Xiaohui Zhang, Katharina Hauck and Xueyan Zhao

Volume 22, issue 8, 2013

A HEALTH PRODUCTION MODEL WITH ENDOGENOUS RETIREMENT pp. 883-902

Titus Galama, Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca and Pierre-Carl Michaud

UNPLANNED PREGNANCY AND THE IMPACT ON SIBLING HEALTH OUTCOMES pp. 903-914

Grace Lordan and Paul Frijters

DETERMINANTS OF ROAD TRAFFIC CRASH FATALITIES ACROSS INDIAN STATES pp. 915-930

Michael Grimm and Carole Treibich

TRULY INEFFICIENT OR PROVIDING BETTER QUALITY OF CARE? ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RISK‐ADJUSTED HOSPITAL COSTS AND PATIENTS' HEALTH OUTCOMES pp. 931-947

Nils Gutacker, Chris Bojke, Silvio Daidone, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin and Andrew Street

SOCIETAL VIEWS ON NICE, CANCER DRUGS FUND AND VALUE‐BASED PRICING CRITERIA FOR PRIORITISING MEDICINES: A CROSS‐SECTIONAL SURVEY OF 4118 ADULTS IN GREAT BRITAIN pp. 948-964

Warren G. Linley and Dyfrig A. Hughes

SOCIAL CONTAGION OF MENTAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM COLLEGE ROOMMATES pp. 965-986

Daniel Eisenberg, Ezra Golberstein, Janis L. Whitlock and Marilyn F. Downs

HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND HEALTHCARE QUALITY IN LOCAL HEALTHCARE MARKETS pp. 987-1002

Damian Damianov and José A. Pagán

Volume 22, issue 7, 2013

PUMPS, GERMS AND STORAGE: THE IMPACT OF IMPROVED WATER CONTAINERS ON WATER QUALITY AND HEALTH pp. 757-774

Isabel Günther and Youdi Schipper

INFERTILITY INSURANCE MANDATES AND MULTIPLE BIRTHS pp. 775-789

Kasey Buckles

DO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM RESPONSE TIMES MATTER FOR HEALTH OUTCOMES? pp. 790-806

Elizabeth Wilde

INCREMENTAL EXPENDITURE OF BIOLOGIC DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC TREATMENT USING INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES IN PANEL DATA pp. 807-823

Aniket A. Kawatkar, Joel Hay, William Stohl and Michael Nichol

The economic impact of H1N1 on Mexico's tourist and pork sectors pp. 824-834

Dunia Rassy and Richard D. Smith

Obesity and fast food in urban markets: a new approach using geo‐referenced micro data pp. 835-856

Susan Chen, Raymond Florax and Samantha D. Snyder

ON THE DEMAND FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: HETEROGENEITY IN PRICE RESPONSES pp. 857-869

Niels Skipper

CANCELLED PROCEDURES: INEQUALITY, INEQUITY AND THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REFORMS pp. 870-876

Graham Cookson, Simon Jones and Bryan McIntosh

TWO‐LEVEL RESAMPLING AS A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE EXPECTED VALUE OF SAMPLE INFORMATION IN ECONOMIC TRIALS pp. 877-882

Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Carlo Marra and Stirling Bryan

Volume 22, issue 6, 2013

APPLYING RISK ADJUSTED COST‐EFFECTIVENESS (RAC‐E) ANALYSIS TO HOSPITALS: ESTIMATING THE COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF VARIATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE pp. 631-642

Jonathan Karnon, Orla Caffrey, Clarabelle Pham, Richard Grieve, David Ben‐Tovim, Paul Hakendorf and Maria Crotty

AN INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE APPROACH TO UNEMPLOYMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL NORM EFFECTS pp. 643-654

John Gathergood

NATURAL EXPERIMENT EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECT OF MIGRATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION pp. 655-672

John Gibson, Steven Stillman, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua

CONSISTENT ESTIMATION OF ZERO‐INFLATED COUNT MODELS pp. 673-686

Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

THE DYNAMICS OF MEDICAL CARE USE IN THE BRITISH HOUSEHOLD PANEL SURVEY pp. 687-710

Jennifer L. Kohn and Jing Shi Liu

EQUIVALENT INCOME AND FAIR EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE pp. 711-729

Marc Fleurbaey, Stéphane Luchini, Christophe Muller and Erik Schokkaert

PRIORITY SETTING IN HEALTH CARE: DISENTANGLING RISK AVERSION FROM INEQUALITY AVERSION pp. 730-740

Luciana Echazu and Diego Nocetti

CIGARETTE QUITLINES, TAXES, AND OTHER TOBACCO CONTROL POLICIES: A STATE‐LEVEL ANALYSIS pp. 741-748

Henry Shelton Brown and Steve Karson

EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS AND ELECTIVE SURGERY WAITING TIMES pp. 749-756

Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Stewart Jones and Elizabeth Savage

Volume 22, issue 5, 2013

PEER EFFECTS IN ADOLESCENT BMI: EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN pp. 501-516

Toni Mora and Joan Gil

A COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE VARIANTS OF THE LEAD AND LAG TIME TTO pp. 517-532

Nancy Devlin, Ken Buckingham, Koonal Shah, Aki Tsuchiya, Carl Tilling, Grahame Wilkinson and Ben van Hout

INCOME‐RELATED INEQUITY IN HEALTHCARE UTILISATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN ENGLAND—ACCOUNTING FOR VERTICAL INEQUITY pp. 533-553

Laura Vallejo‐Torres and Stephen Morris

INVESTIGATING ATTRIBUTE NON‐ATTENDANCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN CHOICE EXPERIMENTS WITH LATENT CLASS MODELS pp. 554-567

Mylene Lagarde

EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY: A STATED PREFERENCE APPROACH pp. 568-581

Richard Norman, Jane Hall, Deborah Street and Rosalie Viney

ON THE RECURRENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS pp. 582-599

Monica Galizzi

AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE FOURTH HURDLE pp. 600-610

Rogowski Wh

HOW MANY INFANTS LIKELY DIED IN AFRICA AS A RESULT OF THE 2008–2009 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS? pp. 611-622

Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady

THE DYNAMICS OF INCOME‐RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITY AMONG AMERICAN CHILDREN pp. 623-629

Pinka Chatterji, Kajal Lahiri and Jingya Song

Volume 22, issue 4, 2013

PROFESSOR GAVIN MOONEY 1943–2012 pp. 371-372

Alastair Gray and Alistair McGuire

SHOULD BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIC POLICY BE ANTI‐REGULATORY? pp. 373-375

Adam Oliver

LEAD TIME TTO: LEADING TO BETTER HEALTH STATE VALUATIONS? pp. 376-392

Arthur Attema, Matthijs M. Versteegh, Mark Oppe, Werner Brouwer and Elly A. Stolk

MEDICAL REGULATION AND HEALTH OUTCOMES: THE EFFECT OF THE PHYSICIAN EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT pp. 393-409

Anca M. Cotet and Daniel Benjamin

DOES ACCESS TO IMPROVED SANITATION REDUCE CHILDHOOD DIARRHEA IN RURAL INDIA? pp. 410-427

Santosh Kumar and Sebastian Vollmer

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META‐ANALYSIS OF WILLINGNESS‐TO‐PAY VALUES: THE CASE OF MALARIA CONTROL INTERVENTIONS pp. 428-450

M. Trapero‐Bertran, H. Mistry, J. Shen and J. Fox‐Rushby

CROSS‐STATE DISPARITIES IN US HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES pp. 451-465

Ekaterini Panopoulou and Theologos Pantelidis

A DUAL ATKINSON MEASURE OF SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY OF HEALTH pp. 466-479

Guido Erreygers

PREFERENCES FOR THE NORMATIVE BASIS OF HEALTH CARE PRIORITY SETTING: SOME EVIDENCE FROM TWO COUNTRIES pp. 480-485

Jan Abel Olsen and Jeff Richardson

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES THAT USE OBSERVATIONAL DATA: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL TOOL AND REVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICE pp. 486-500

Noemi Kreif, Richard Grieve and M. Zia Sadique

Volume 22, issue 3, 2013

MORE THAN FIGURES? QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HEALTH ECONOMICS pp. 253-257

Konrad Obermann, Jasper Scheppe and Bernd Glazinski

VALUING THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF COMPLEX INTERVENTIONS: WHEN MAXIMISING HEALTH IS NOT SUFFICIENT pp. 258-271

Katherine Payne, Marion McAllister and Linda M. Davies

TESTING PROCEDURAL INVARIANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH pp. 272-288

Adam Oliver

VOLUNTARY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE AMONG THE OVER 50s IN EUROPE pp. 289-315

Omar Paccagnella, Vincenzo Rebba and Guglielmo Weber

HOW HAVE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES INFLUENCED CALORIC CONSUMPTION IN THE UNITED STATES? pp. 316-339

Bradley J. Rickard, Abigail Okrent and Julian Alston

MORAL HAZARD AND SUPPLIER‐INDUCED DEMAND: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN GENERAL PRACTICE pp. 340-352

Christel E. van Dijk, Bernard van den Berg, Robert A. Verheij, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Peter P. Groenewegen and Dinny H. de Bakker

ON THE CHOICE OF HEALTH INEQUALITY MEASURE FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF INCOME‐RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITIES pp. 353-365

Paul Allanson and Dennis Petrie

CYCLICAL ABSENTEEISM AMONG PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR AND SELF‐EMPLOYED WORKERS pp. 366-370

Christian Pfeifer

Volume 22, issue 2, 2013

ON THE USES OF ROUTINE PATIENT‐REPORTED HEALTH OUTCOME DATA pp. 119-131

Peter C. Smith and Andrew Street

MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY RISKS AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR pp. 132-143

Avraham Stoler and David Meltzer

RISK PERCEPTION, PREVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTS pp. 144-156

Johanna Etner and Meglena Jeleva

EXAMINING THE LINK BETWEEN CASH FLOW, MARKET VALUE, AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT SPENDING IN THE MEDICAL DEVICE INDUSTRY pp. 157-167

Bryan P. Schmutz and Rexford Santerre

SETTING PAY FOR PERFORMANCE TARGETS: DO POOR PERFORMERS GIVE UP? pp. 168-179

Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman and Nersesian William

INCORPORATING FINANCIAL PROTECTION INTO DECISION RULES FOR PUBLICLY FINANCED HEALTHCARE TREATMENTS pp. 180-193

Peter C. Smith

REGIONAL VARIATION IN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE ENGLISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE pp. 194-211

Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Andrew Street, Padraic Ward and Mauro Laudicella

PRODUCTION COST STRUCTURE IN US OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL THERAPY HEALTH CARE pp. 212-223

Gregory G. Lubiani and Albert Okunade

HEIGHT AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION AT OLDER AGES: IS HEIGHT A USEFUL SUMMARY MEASURE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES? pp. 224-233

Cahit Guven and Wang-Sheng Lee

DIFFERENCES IN LENGTH OF STAY FOR HIP REPLACEMENT BETWEEN PUBLIC HOSPITALS, SPECIALISED TREATMENT CENTRES AND PRIVATE PROVIDERS: SELECTION OR EFFICIENCY? pp. 234-242

Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey and Andrew Street

AN EVALUATION OF THE UK FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY'S SALT CAMPAIGN pp. 243-250

Bhavani Shankar, Jose Brambila‐Macias, Bruce Traill, Mario Mazzocchi and Sara Capacci

SURROGATE, FRIEND OR FOE? THE NEED FOR CASE STUDIES OF THE USE OF SURROGATE OUTCOMES IN COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES pp. 251-252

O. Ciani and R. S. Taylor

Volume 22, issue 1, 2013

ARE ANCHORING VIGNETTES RATINGS SENSITIVE TO VIGNETTE AGE AND SEX? pp. 1-13

Hendrik Jürges and Joachim Winter

NEIGHBOURHOOD SOCIAL CAPITAL AND INDIVIDUAL SELF‐RATED HEALTH IN WALES pp. 14-21

Gindo Tampubolon, S. V. Subramanian and Ichiro Kawachi

COST‐MINIMISATION ANALYSIS VERSUS COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS, REVISITED pp. 22-34

Helen Dakin and Sarah Wordsworth

THE PRICE SENSITIVITY OF MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES: A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY APPROACH pp. 35-51

Thomas Buchmueller, Kyle Grazier, Richard A. Hirth and Edward N. Okeke

THE EFFECT OF NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ON MORTALITY AND THE SES–HEALTH GRADIENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELDERLY IN TAIWAN pp. 52-72

Shao-Hsun Keng and Sheng‐Jang Sheu

THE IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE LAWS ON STATE SUICIDE RATES pp. 73-88

Matthew Lang

UNDERSTANDING HETEROGENEITY IN PRICE ELASTICITIES IN THE DEMAND FOR ALCOHOL FOR OLDER INDIVIDUALS pp. 89-105

Padmaja Ayyagari, Partha Deb, Jason Fletcher, William Gallo and Jody L. Sindelar

ON THE CARDINAL MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH INEQUALITY WHEN ONLY ORDINAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH STATUS pp. 106-113

Adi Lazar and Jacques Silber