Health Economics

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Volume 21, issue S2, 2012

DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUPS EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN HOSPITAL COSTS AND LENGTH OF STAY? – ANALYSES FROM THE EURODRG PROJECT FOR 10 EPISODES OF CARE ACROSS 10 EuroPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 1-5

Reinhard Busse and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

HOW WELL DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUPS EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN COSTS OR LENGTH OF STAY AMONG PATIENTS AND ACROSS HOSPITALS? METHODS FOR ANALYSING ROUTINE PATIENT DATA pp. 6-18

Andrew Street, Conrad Kobel, Thomas Renaud, Josselin Thuilliez and On Behalf Of The Eurodrg Group

PATIENT CLASSIFICATION AND HOSPITAL COSTS OF CARE FOR ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN NINE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 19-29

Unto Häkkinen, Pietro Chiarello, Francesc Cots, Mikko Peltola, Hanna Rättö and On Behalf Of The Eurodrg Group

HOW WELL DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUPS FOR APPENDECTOMY EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN RESOURCE USE? AN ANALYSIS OF PATIENT‐LEVEL DATA FROM 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 30-40

Anne Mason, Zeynep Or, Thomas Renaud, Andrew Street, Josselin Thuilliez, Padraic Ward and On Behalf Of The Eurodrg Group

HOW WELL DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUP SYSTEMS GROUP BREAST CANCER SURGERY PATIENTS?—EVIDENCE FROM 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 41-54

David Scheller‐Kreinsen and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS AND VARIATIONS IN RESOURCE USE FOR CHILD DELIVERY ACROSS 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 55-65

Zeynep Or, Thomas Renaud, Josselin Thuilliez, Cora Lebreton and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

DRGs IN EUROPE: A CROSS COUNTRY ANALYSIS FOR CHOLECYSTECTOMY pp. 66-76

Gerli Paat‐Ahi, Maria Świderek, Pawel Sakowski, Janek Saluse, Ain Aaviksoo and on behalf of the EURODRG Group

WHY DO PATIENTS HAVING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTS HAVE DIFFERENT COSTS OR LENGTH OF STAY? AN ANALYSIS ACROSS 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 77-88

James Gaughan, Conrad Kobel, Caroline Linhart, Anne Mason, Andrew Street, Padraic Ward and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

PERFORMANCE OF 10 EUROPEAN DRG SYSTEMS IN EXPLAINING VARIATION IN RESOURCE UTILISATION IN INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR pp. 89-101

Jacqueline O'Reilly, Lisbeth Serdén, Mats Talbäck, Brian McCarthy and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

DO DIAGNOSIS‐RELATED GROUPS APPROPRIATELY EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN COSTS AND LENGTH OF STAY OF HIP REPLACEMENT? A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF DRG SYSTEMS ACROSS 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 103-115

Alexander Geissler, David Scheller‐Kreinsen, Wilm Quentin and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS AND HOSPITAL COSTS OF CARE FOR KNEE REPLACEMENT IN 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 116-128

Francesc Cots, Pietro Chiarello, Xavier Salvador, Xavier Castells and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

PATIENT CLASSIFICATION AND HOSPITAL COSTS OF CARE FOR STROKE IN 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES pp. 129-140

Mikko Peltola and on behalf of the EuroDRG Group

Volume 21, issue S1, 2012

THE 2ND AUSTRALASIAN WORKSHOP ON ECONOMETRICS AND HEALTH ECONOMICS pp. 1-3

Bruce Hollingsworth and Anthony Scott

INCOME INEQUALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH—EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIA pp. 4-17

Lucy Bechtel, Grace Lordan and D.S. Prasada Rao

DOES DONOR ASSISTANCE FOR HIV RESPOND TO MEDIA PRESSURE? pp. 18-32

Fabrizio Carmignani, Grace Lordan and Kam Ki Tang

DO HEALTHCARE REPORT CARDS CAUSE PROVIDERS TO SELECT PATIENTS AND RAISE QUALITY OF CARE? pp. 33-55

Yijuan Chen and Juergen Meinecke

THE IMPACT OF HEALTH CHANGES ON LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM MERGED DATA ON INDIVIDUAL OBJECTIVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS CODES AND EARLY RETIREMENT BEHAVIOR pp. 56-100

Bent Jesper Christensen and Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES FOR ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PANEL COUNT DATA USING DYNAMIC LATENT CLASS MODELS (WITH APPLICATION TO DOCTOR VISITS DATA) pp. 101-128

Judex Hyppolite and Pravin Trivedi

MEDIATING ROLE OF EDUCATION AND LIFESTYLES IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EARLY‐LIFE CONDITIONS AND HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1958 BRITISH COHORT pp. 129-150

Sandy Tubeuf, Florence Jusot and Damien Bricard

Volume 21, issue 12, 2012

PRODUCTIVITY COSTS REVISITED: TOWARD A NEW US POLICY pp. 1387-1401

John A. Nyman

LABOR MOBILITY OF THE DIRECT CARE WORKFORCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF LONG‐TERM CARE pp. 1402-1415

Reagan A. Baughman and Kristin E. Smith

PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR RESPONSIBILITY VERSUS PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR REDUCING INEQUALITIES pp. 1416-1426

Richard Edlin, Aki Tsuchiya and Paul Dolan

LOS(T) IN LONG‐TERM CARE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN DATA 2000–2009 pp. 1427-1443

Jasmin Häcker and Tobias Hackmann

COPULA BIVARIATE PROBIT MODELS: WITH AN APPLICATION TO MEDICAL EXPENDITURES pp. 1444-1455

Rainer Winkelmann

FIGHTING TRANSIENT EPIDEMICS—OPTIMAL VACCINATION SCHEDULES BEFORE AND AFTER AN OUTBREAK pp. 1456-1476

Eric Nævdal

A SECOND LOOK AT PHARMACEUTICAL SPENDING AS DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES IN CANADA pp. 1477-1495

G Emmanuel Guindon and Paul Contoyannis

A REPLY TO ‘A SECOND LOOK AT PHARMACEUTICAL SPENDING AS DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES IN CANADA’ pp. 1496-1498

Pierre‐Yves CrÉmieux, Marie‐Claude Meilleur, Pierre Ouellette and Patrick Petit

A RESPONSE TO CRÉMIEUX, MEILLEUR, OUELLETTE AND PETIT pp. 1499-1501

G Emmanuel Guindon and Paul Contoyannis

PRICING OF MEDICAL DEVICES UNDER COVERAGE UNCERTAINTY—A MODELLING APPROACH pp. 1502-1507

Alan J. Girling, Richard J. Lilford and Terry P. Young

SF‐6D POPULATION NORMS pp. 1508-1512

Bernard van den Berg

Volume 21, issue 11, 2012

THE EFFECT OF TAIWAN'S NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ON MORTALITY OF THE ELDERLY: REVISITED pp. 1257-1270

Simon Chang

LOWERING THE ‘FLOOR’ OF THE SF‐6D SCORING ALGORITHM USING A LOTTERY EQUIVALENT METHOD pp. 1271-1285

José María Abellán Perpiñán, Fernando Ignacio Sanchez Martinez, Jorge Eduardo Martínez Pérez and Ildefonso Méndez

PARALLEL IMPORTS AND INNOVATION IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY: THE CASE OF INDIAN PHARMACEUTICALS pp. 1286-1299

Andrea Mantovani and Alireza Naghavi

WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE THE EARNINGS OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND MEDICAL SPECIALISTS? EVIDENCE FROM THE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA: BALANCING EMPLOYMENT AND LIFE SURVEY pp. 1300-1317

Terence Cheng, Anthony Scott, Sung-Hee Jeon, Guyonne Kalb, John Humphreys and Catherine Joyce

EASING THE PAIN OF AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN: MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION pp. 1318-1335

María E. Dávalos, Hai Fang and Michael T. French

MINIMUM SAVINGS REQUIREMENTS IN SHARED SAVINGS PROVIDER PAYMENT pp. 1336-1347

Gregory C. Pope and John Kautter

UNFIT FOR SERVICE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RISING OBESITY FOR US MILITARY RECRUITMENT pp. 1348-1366

John Cawley and Johanna Catherine Maclean

WHEN DO FAT TAXES INCREASE CONSUMER WELFARE? pp. 1367-1374

Jayson Lusk and Christiane Schroeter

EVALUATION OF VARIANCE ESTIMATORS FOR THE CONCENTRATION AND HEALTH ACHIEVEMENT INDICES: A MONTE CARLO SIMULATION pp. 1375-1381

Zhuo Chen, Kakoli Roy and Carol A. Gotway Crawford

LEARNING HEALTHY BEHAVIOR? THE IMPACT OF TRAINING IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS ON LIFESTYLES pp. 1382-1385

Donata Bessey

HEALTH ECONOMICS DISTINGUISHED AUTHORS pp. 1386-1386

Frances Sharp

Volume 21, issue 10, 2012

CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION AND HEALTH: AN EX ANTE EVALUATION OF RED DE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL, NICARAGUA pp. 1136-1154

Ranjeeta Thomas

HEALTH SERVICE USE AMONG THE PREVIOUSLY UNINSURED: IS SUBSIDIZED HEALTH INSURANCE ENOUGH? pp. 1155-1168

Sandra L. Decker, Jalpa A. Doshi, Amy E. Knaup and Daniel Polsky

A MARKOV MODEL TO ESTIMATE SALMONELLA MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, ILLNESS DURATION, AND COST pp. 1169-1182

Robert L. Herrick, Steven G. Buchberger, Robert M. Clark, Margaret Kupferle, Regan Murray and Paul Succop

ACCOUNTING FOR BETWEEN‐STUDY VARIATION IN INCREMENTAL NET BENEFIT IN VALUE OF INFORMATION METHODOLOGY pp. 1183-1195

Andrew R. Willan and Simon Eckermann

RESEARCH DECISIONS IN THE FACE OF HETEROGENEITY: WHAT CAN A NEW STUDY TELL US? pp. 1196-1200

Nicky Welton and A. E. Ades

SPOILT FOR CHOICE: IMPLICATIONS OF USING ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF COSTING HOSPITAL EPISODE STATISTICS pp. 1201-1216

Claudia Geue, James Lewsey, Paula Lorgelly, Lindsay Govan, Carole Hart and Andrew Briggs

QUALITY OF LIFE, TREATMENTS, AND PATIENTS' WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR A COMPLETE REMISSION OF CERVICAL CANCER IN TAIWAN pp. 1217-1233

Hui‐Chu Lang, Koyin Chang and Yung‐Hsiang Ying

MEASURING THE EFFECT OF POLICY INTERVENTIONS AT THE POPULATION LEVEL: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS pp. 1234-1249

Marco D. Huesch, Truls Østbye and Michael K. Ong

THE ROLE OF PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE IN SOCIO‐ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN CANCER SCREENING UPTAKE IN IRELAND pp. 1250-1256

Brendan Walsh, Mary Silles and Ciaran O'Neill

Volume 21, issue 9, 2012

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION pp. 1037-1039

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

BEWARE OF BEING UNAWARE: RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN CHRONIC ILLNESS IN THE USA pp. 1040-1060

Pinka Chatterji, Heesoo Joo and Kajal Lahiri

THE EFFECT OF MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY ON COVERAGE, UTILIZATION, AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH pp. 1061-1079

Dolores de la Mata

IS THERE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR DECREASING RETURNS TO SCALE IN A HEALTH CAPITAL MODEL? pp. 1080-1100

Titus Galama, Patrick Hullegie, Erik Meijer and Sarah Outcault

METHODS FOR COVARIATE ADJUSTMENT IN COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS THAT USE CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIALS pp. 1101-1118

Manuel Gomes, Richard Grieve, Richard Nixon, Edmond S.‐W. Ng, James Carpenter and Simon G. Thompson

ZERO‐INFLATED ENDOGENOUS COUNT IN CENSORED MODEL: EFFECTS OF INFORMAL FAMILY CARE ON FORMAL HEALTH CARE pp. 1119-1133

Myoung-jae Lee and Young‐sook Kim

Volume 21, issue 8, 2012

ESTIMATING ADVERSE SELECTION AND MORAL HAZARD EFFECTS WITH HOSPITAL INVOICES DATA IN A GOVERNMENT‐CONTROLLED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM pp. 883-901

Xiangping Liu, Danijel Nestic and Tomislav Vukina

HOW PRICE RESPONSIVE IS THE DEMAND FOR SPECIALTY CARE? pp. 902-912

Matthew L. Maciejewski, Chuan‐Fen Liu, Andrew L. Kavee and Maren K. Olsen

THE EFFECT OF RETIREMENT ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING pp. 913-927

Norma Coe, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Maarten Lindeboom and Jürgen Maurer

THE EFFECT OF CHILDHOOD CONDUCT DISORDER ON HUMAN CAPITAL pp. 928-945

Dinand Webbink, Sunčica Vujić, Pierre Koning and Nicholas G. Martin

THE IMPACT OF VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE ON HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND OUT‐OF‐POCKET PAYMENTS: NEW EVIDENCE FOR VIETNAM pp. 946-966

Cuong Nguyen

THE EFFECTS OF HIV MEDICATIONS ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OLDER ADULTS IN NEW YORK CITY pp. 967-976

Robert Brent

RESPONSE TO REGULATORY STRINGENCY: THE CASE OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION USE IN NURSING HOMES pp. 977-993

John Bowblis, Stephen Crystal, Orna Intrator and Judith A. Lucas

THE EFFECTS OF INSURANCE MANDATES ON CHOICES AND OUTCOMES IN INFERTILITY TREATMENT MARKETS pp. 994-1016

Barton H. Hamilton and Brian McManus

METHODS USED TO IDENTIFY AND MEASURE RESOURCE USE IN ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF QUESTIONNAIRES FOR OLDER PEOPLE pp. 1017-1022

Adam Martin, Alex Jones, Miranda Mugford, Ian Shemilt, Ruth Hancock and Raphael Wittenberg

THE OH‐SO STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH: CAN THE HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE CURVE BE BENT? pp. 1023-1029

Robert S. Woodward and Le Wang

AFFORDING TO WAIT: MEDICARE INITIATION AND THE USE OF HEALTH CARE pp. 1030-1036

Guy David, Phil Saynisch, Victoria Acevedo‐Perez and Mark D. Neuman

Volume 21, issue 7, 2012

THE DETERMINANTS OF CHINESE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPENDITURES: EVIDENCE FROM 2002–2006 DATA pp. 757-777

Jay Pan and Gordon G. Liu

COMPARING AND DECOMPOSING DIFFERENCES IN PREVENTIVE AND HOSPITAL CARE: USA VERSUS TAIWAN pp. 778-795

Tiffany R. Hsiou and Yuriy Pylypchuk

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MATERNAL ILLNESS IN RURAL BANGLADESH pp. 796-810

Timothy Powell‐Jackson and Mohammad Enamul Hoque

OWNERSHIP AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF GERMAN ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS pp. 811-824

Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel, Christoph Schmidt and Christoph Schwierz

WEIGHT‐LOSS DIETING BEHAVIOR: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS pp. 825-838

Odelia Rosin

RESERVE CAPACITY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN RESPONSE TO DEMAND UNCERTAINTY pp. 839-851

Ana Rodriguez‐Alvarez, David Roibás and Alan Wall

IMPROVING FOOD CHOICES AMONG SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM RECIPIENTS pp. 852-864

Wen You, Paul Mitchell and Rodolfo Nayga

PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH RISK AND SMOKING DECISIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE pp. 865-877

Shelby Gerking and Raman Khaddaria

DISCOUNTING HEALTH AND COST‐EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS: A RESPONSE TO NORD pp. 878-882

James Hammitt

Volume 21, issue 6, 2012

Patient complexity and GPS' income under mixed remuneration pp. 619-632

K. R. Olsen

Benefits and costs of substance abuse treatment programs for state prison inmates: results from a lifetime simulation model pp. 633-652

Gary A. Zarkin, Alexander J. Cowell, Katherine A. Hicks, Michael J. Mills, Steven Belenko, Laura J. Dunlap, Kimberly A. Houser and Vince Keyes

Customization in prescribing for bipolar disorder pp. 653-668

Dominic Hodgkin, Joanna Volpe‐Vartanian, Elizabeth L. Merrick, Constance M. Horgan, Andrew A. Nierenberg, Richard G. Frank and Sue Lee

Intended and unintended consequences of a proposed national tax on sugar‐sweetened beverages to combat the U.S. obesity problem pp. 669-694

Senarath Dharmasena and Oral Capps

A matching method for improving covariate balance in cost‐effectiveness analyses pp. 695-714

Jasjeet Singh Sekhon and Richard D. Grieve

Valuing states from multiple measures on the same visual analogue sale: a feasibility study pp. 715-729

Donna Rowen, John Brazier, Aki Tsuchiya and Monica Hernandez Alava

Using qualitative methods for attribute development for discrete choice experiments: issues and recommendations pp. 730-741

Joanna Coast, Hareth Al‐Janabi, Eileen J. Sutton, Susan A. Horrocks, A. Jane Vosper, Dawn R. Swancutt and Terry N. Flynn

Surrogates, meta‐analysis and cost‐effectiveness modelling: a combined analytic approach pp. 742-756

Neil Hawkins, Gerry Richardson, Alex J Sutton, Nicola J Cooper, Chris Griffiths, Anne Rogers and Peter Bower

Volume 21, issue 5, 2012

Should Medicare adopt the Veterans health administration formulary? pp. 485-495

Austin B. Frakt, Steven Pizer and Roger Feldman

New drugs and the growth of health expenditure: evidence from diabetic patients in Taiwan pp. 496-513

Ya‐Ming Liu and Chee‐Ruey Hsieh

Health status and the allocation of time pp. 514-527

Melinda Podor and Timothy Halliday

Quality of life lost due to non‐fatal road traffic injuries pp. 528-550

Patricia Cubí‐Mollá and Carmen Herrero

Impact of the smoking ban on the volume of bar sales in Ireland – evidence from time series analysis pp. 551-561

Laura Cornelsen and Charles Normand

Parental income and child health in Germany pp. 562-579

Steffen Reinhold and Hendrik Jürges

Do people become healthier after being promoted? pp. 580-596

Christopher J. Boyce and Andrew Oswald

Quantile regression analysis of body mass and wages pp. 597-611

Meliyanni Johar and Hajime Katayama

Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health pp. 612-618

Mike Paulden and Karl Claxton

Volume 21, issue 4, 2012

Benefit‐incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro‐rich than we think? pp. 351-366

Adam Wagstaff

Is there a health penalty of China's rapid urbanization? pp. 367-385

Ellen Van de Poel, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The impact of long‐term participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program on child obesity pp. 386-404

Maximilian D. Schmeiser

Food insecurity and the relationship between household income and children's health and nutrition in Brazil pp. 405-427

Mauricio Reis

Does managed care affect the diffusion of psychotropic medications? pp. 428-443

Marisa E. Domino

The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients pp. 444-456

Peter Sivey

Time is up: increasing shadow price of time in primary‐care office visits pp. 457-476

Ming Tai‐Seale and Thomas McGuire

Human health care and selection effects. Understanding labor supply in the market for nursing pp. 477-483

Francesca Barigozzi and Gilberto Turati

Volume 21, issue 3, 2012

Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals pp. 209-221

Christoph Schwierz, Boris Augurzky, Axel Focke and Juergen Wasem

Disentangling WTP per QALY data: different analytical approaches, different answers pp. 222-237

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen and Trine Kjær

Willingness‐to‐pay for predictive tests with no immediate treatment implications: a survey of US residents pp. 238-251

Peter J. Neumann, Joshua T. Cohen, James Hammitt, Thomas W. Concannon, Hannah R. Auerbach, ChiHui Fang and David M. Kent

Physicians' perception of demand‐induced supply in the information age: a latent class model analysis pp. 252-269

Ya-Chen Shih and Ming Tai‐Seale

A model to correct for short‐run inefficiencies in economic evaluations in healthcare pp. 270-281

Gijs Van de Wetering, Willem H. Woertman and Eddy M. M. Adang

Does retirement trigger ill health? pp. 282-300

Stefanie Behncke

What is driving the black–white difference in low birthweight in the US? pp. 301-315

Aparna Lhila and Sharon Long

Comparing costs and outcomes across programmes of health care pp. 316-337

Stephen Martin, Nigel Rice and Peter C. Smith

The effect of job loss and unemployment duration on suicide risk in the United States: a new look using mass‐layoffs and unemployment duration pp. 338-350

Timothy J. Classen and Richard Dunn

Volume 21, issue 2, 2012

Regional variations in medical spending and utilization: a longitudinal analysis of US Medicare population pp. 67-82

Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Zijun Wang

Public and private health‐care financing with alternate public rationing rules pp. 83-100

Katherine Cuff, Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Andrew Muller and Robert Nuscheler

Scope insensitivity in contingent valuation studies of health care services: should we ask twice? pp. 101-112

D. Gyrd‐Hansen, T. Kjær and J. S. Nielsen

A modified measure of health care disparities applied to birth weight disparities and subsequent mortality pp. 113-126

Richard J. Butler, Barbara L. Wilson and William G. Johnson

Inheritances, health and death pp. 127-144

Beomsoo Kim and Christopher Ruhm

Discrete choice experiments in health economics: a review of the literature pp. 145-172

Esther W. de Bekker‐Grob, Mandy Ryan and Karen Gerard

Labor adjustment in the Japanese health care industry: some empirical evidence pp. 173-177

Kazuyuki Inagaki

Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country pp. 178-186

Grace Lordan, Eliana Jimenez Soto, Richard P. C. Brown and Ignacio Correa‐Valez

Missing data in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis: the current state of play pp. 187-200

Sian Marie Noble, William Hollingworth and Kate Tilling

Social capital and self‐rated health in Argentina pp. 201-208

Lucas Ronconi, Timothy T. Brown and Richard M. Scheffler

Volume 21, issue 1, 2012

The powers and pitfalls of payment for performance pp. 3-12

Alan Maynard

‘Health Economics’ and the evolution of economic evaluation of health technologies pp. 13-18

John Hutton

Let the data be our guide: trends and tools for research on health care utilization pp. 19-23

Carolyn M. Clancy

The developmental origins of health pp. 24-29

James Heckman

A little learning: reflections on 10 years of NICE technology appraisals pp. 30-32

Carole M. Longson

Competition, incentives and the English NHS pp. 33-40

Carol Propper

Divide et impera: protecting the growth of health care incomes (COSTS) pp. 41-54

Uwe Reinhardt

How can we increase resources for health care in the developing world? Is (subsidized) voluntary health insurance the answer? pp. 55-61

Jacques van der Gaag and Vid Stimac