Health Economics

1992 - 2025

Current editor(s): Alan Maynard, John Hutton and Andrew Jones

From John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 20, issue S1, 2011

The 1st Australasian Workshop on econometrics and health economics pp. v-vii

Bruce Hollingsworth and Anthony Scott

Oportunidades to reduce overweight and obesity in Mexico? pp. 1-18

Mabel Andalón

Managerial performance and cost efficiency of Japanese local public hospitals: A latent class stochastic frontier model pp. 19-34

Galina Besstremyannaya

Preferences for new and existing contraceptive products pp. 35-52

Denzil Fiebig, Stephanie Knox, Rosalie Viney, Marion Haas and Deborah J. Street

Overweight and obesity and the utilization of primary care physicians pp. 53-67

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jane Greve

Waiting times for elective surgery and the decision to buy private health insurance pp. 68-86

Meliyanni Johar, Glenn Jones, Michael Keane, Elizabeth Savage and Olena Stavrunova

Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence pp. 87-104

Meliyanni Johar and Shiko Maruyama

Volume 20, issue 12, 2011

Thinking about it: thoughts about health and valuing QALYs pp. 1407-1416

Paul Dolan

Measuring the cost of hospital adverse patient safety events pp. 1417-1430

Kathleen Carey and Theodore Stefos

Which health conditions cause the most unhappiness? pp. 1431-1447

Carol Graham, Lucas Higuera and Eduardo Lora

The intergenerational transmission of height: evidence from rural Vietnam pp. 1448-1467

Atheendar Venkataramani

The effect of diabetes on female labor force decisions: new evidence from the National Health Interview Survey pp. 1468-1486

Travis Minor

Information asymmetry and performance tilting in hospitals: a national empirical study pp. 1487-1506

Jong‐Yi Wang, Janice C. Probst, Carleen H. Stoskopf, Jimy M. Sanders and James F. McTigue

Do associations between employee self‐reported organizational assessments and attitudinal outcomes change over time? An analysis of four Veterans Health Administration surveys using structural equation modelling pp. 1507-1522

Sonali Das, Ming‐Hui Chen, Nicholas Warren and Michael Hodgson

Non‐monotonicity in the episodic random utility model pp. 1523-1531

Nicolas A. Menzies and Joshua A. Salomon

Volume 20, issue 11, 2011

What determines influenza vaccination take‐up of elderly Europeans? pp. 1281-1297

Hendrik Schmitz and Ansgar Wübker

Inequality in prime‐age adult deaths in a high AIDS mortality setting: does the measure of economic status matter? pp. 1298-1311

Marjorie Opuni, Amber Peterman and David Bishai

Effect of patient reimbursement method on health‐care utilization: evidence from China pp. 1312-1329

Hai Zhong

The effect of body weight on adolescent sexual activity pp. 1330-1348

Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel I. Rees

Long‐term effects of health investments and parental favoritism: the case of breastfeeding pp. 1349-1361

Jason Fletcher

The impact of medical insurance for the poor in Georgia: a regression discontinuity approach pp. 1362-1378

Sebastian Bauhoff, David R. Hotchkiss and Owen Smith

Test–retest reliability of health state valuation techniques: the time trade off and person trade off pp. 1379-1391

Suzanne Robinson

Eliciting willingness to pay in obstetrics: comparing a direct and an indirect valuation method for complex health outcomes pp. 1392-1406

Denise Bijlenga, Gouke J. Bonsel and Erwin Birnie

Volume 20, issue 10, 2011

The concentration index of a binary outcome revisited pp. 1155-1160

Adam Wagstaff

Putting the cart before the horse. A comment on Wagstaff on inequality measurement in the presence of binary variables pp. 1161-1165

Guido Erreygers and Tom Van Ourti

Reply to Guido Erreygers and Tom Van Ourti's comment on ‘The concentration index of a binary outcome revisited’ pp. 1166-1168

Adam Wagstaff

Explaining lapse in long‐term care insurance markets pp. 1169-1183

R. Tamara Konetzka and Ye Luo

The male–female gap in physician earnings: evidence from a public health insurance system pp. 1184-1200

Engelbert Theurl and Hannes Winner

Family income and child cognitive and behavioural development in the United Kingdom: does money matter? pp. 1201-1225

Mara Violato, Stavros Petrou, Ron Gray and Maggie Redshaw

Religious participation and risky health behaviors among adolescents pp. 1226-1240

Jennifer Mellor and Beth Freeborn

The effect of dental care on cardiovascular disease outcomes: an application of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self‐selection pp. 1241-1256

Timothy Tyler Brown, Erin Dela Cruz and Stephen Scott Brown

Does a mandatory telemedicine call prior to visiting a physician reduce costs or simply attract good risks? pp. 1257-1267

Chantal Grandchamp and Lucien Gardiol

Hospital competition and inpatient services efficiency in Taiwan: a longitudinal study pp. 1268-1280

Chiao‐Lee Chu, Tung‐liang Chiang and Ray‐E Chang

Volume 20, issue 9, 2011

Editors' Introduction pp. 1009-1011

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Does the EU sugar policy reform increase added sugar consumption? An empirical evidence on the soft drink market pp. 1012-1024

Céline Bonnet and Vincent Réquillart

Assessing the impact of high deductible health plans on health‐care utilization and cost: a changes‐in‐changes approach pp. 1025-1042

Bijan J. Borah, Marguerite E. Burns and Nilay D. Shah

Workplace smoking ban effects on unhappy smokers pp. 1043-1055

Clément de Chaisemartin, Pierre Geoffard and Anne‐Laurence le Faou

Anticipatory ex ante moral hazard and the effect of medicare on prevention pp. 1056-1072

Laure de Preux

The choice of detecting Down syndrome: does money matter? pp. 1073-1089

Clémentine Garrouste, Jérôme Le and Eric Maurin

Endogenous treatment effects for count data models with endogenous participation or sample selection pp. 1090-1109

Massimiliano Bratti and Alfonso Miranda

Do French low‐income GPs choose to work less? pp. 1110-1125

Anne-Laure Samson

A smooth mixture of Tobits model for healthcare expenditure pp. 1126-1153

Michael Keane and Olena Stavrunova

Volume 20, issue 8, 2011

Symposium on genetic data in health economics research pp. 883-883

John Mullahy

The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables pp. 884-888

John Cawley, Euna Han and Edward Norton

The promise and pitfalls of combining genetic and economic research pp. 889-892

Jason Fletcher

Mendelian randomization: the use of genes in instrumental variable analyses pp. 893-896

Stephanie von Hinke, George Davey Smith, Debbie A. Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer

Review of statistical methods for analysing healthcare resources and costs pp. 897-916

Borislava Mihaylova, Andrew Briggs, Anthony O'Hagan and Simon G. Thompson

Health, education and time preference pp. 917-929

Marjon van der Pol

Using discrete choice experiments to value informal care tasks: exploring preference heterogeneity pp. 930-944

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Mandy Ryan and Paul McNamee

The monetary value of a life year: evidence from a qualitative study of treatment costs pp. 945-957

John McKie, Bradley Shrimpton, Jeff Richardson and Rosalind Hurworth

Monitoring prioritisation in the public health‐care sector by use of medical guidelines. The case of Norway pp. 958-970

Jan Erik Askildsen, Tor Helge Holmås and Oddvar Kaarboe

Socioeconomic status and lifestyle choices: evidence from latent class analysis pp. 971-984

Arnstein Ovrum

The relationship between baseline health and longitudinal costs of hospital use pp. 985-1008

Bram Wouterse, Bert R. Meijboom and Johan J. Polder

Volume 20, issue 7, 2011

Health aid and governance in developing countries pp. 757-769

David Fielding

Descriptive validity of alternative intertemporal models for health outcomes: an axiomatic test pp. 770-782

Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns

Changes in the relationship between nursing home financial performance and quality of care under public reporting pp. 783-801

Jeongyoung Park and Rachel M. Werner

The effects of California minimum nurse staffing laws on nurse labor and patient mortality in skilled nursing facilities pp. 802-816

Patricia K. Tong

Does procedure profitability impact whether an outpatient surgery is performed at an ambulatory surgery center or hospital? pp. 817-830

Michael Robert Plotzke and Charles Courtemanche

CPT fee differentials and visit upcoding under Medicare Part B pp. 831-841

Christopher S. Brunt

Estimation of life‐years gained and cost effectiveness based on cause‐specific mortality pp. 842-852

Lois G. Kim and Simon G. Thompson

What happens to value of information measures as the number of decision options increases? pp. 853-863

Pelham Barton

Toward a more universal approach in health valuation pp. 864-875

Benjamin M. Craig and Jan J. V. Busschbach

Breaking bad habits by education – smoking dynamics among Swedish women pp. 876-881

Gustav Kjellsson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Carl Hampus Lyttkens

Volume 20, issue 6, 2011

Ownership conversion and closure in the nursing home industry pp. 631-644

John Bowblis

Health plan enrollment and mortality in the Medicare program pp. 645-659

Bryan Dowd, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Heidi O'Connor, Gerald Riley and Yisong Geng

Profit efficiency and ownership of German hospitals pp. 660-674

Annika Herr, Hendrik Schmitz and Boris Augurzky

Expansion in markets with decreasing demand‐for‐profits in the German hospital industry pp. 675-687

Christoph Schwierz

Reimbursement and value‐based pricing: stratified cost‐effectiveness analysis may not be the last word pp. 688-698

Neil Hawkins and David A. Scott

Does doctors' experience matter in LASIK surgeries? pp. 699-722

Juan Contreras, Beomsoo Kim and Ignez M. Tristao

Saving lives versus life‐years in rural Bangladesh: an ethical preferences approach pp. 723-736

Olof Johansson‐Stenman, Minhaj Mahmud and Peter Martinsson

External referencing and pharmaceutical price negotiation pp. 737-756

Begoña Garcia Mariñoso, Izabela Jelovac and Pau Olivella

Volume 20, issue 5, 2011

Simultaneous relationships between procedure volume and mortality: do they bias studies of mortality at specialty hospitals? pp. 505-518

David Barker, Gary Rosenthal and Peter Cram

Are methamphetamine precursor control laws effective tools to fight the methamphetamine epidemic? pp. 519-531

James Nonnemaker, Mark Engelen and Daniel Shive

Optimal cost reimbursement of health insurers to reduce risk selection pp. 532-552

Mathias Kifmann and Normann Lorenz

Cumulative effects of job characteristics on health pp. 553-570

Jason Fletcher, Jody L. Sindelar and Shintaro Yamaguchi

Hospital competition and financial performance: the effects of ambulatory surgery centers pp. 571-581

Kathleen Carey, James F. Burgess and Gary J. Young

Estimating the extra cost of living for people with disabilities pp. 582-599

J. Cullinan, Brenda Gannon and Sean Lyons

Internationally comparable health indices pp. 600-619

Erik Meijer, Arie Kapteyn and Tatiana Andreyeva

Evidence of a causal link between health outcomes, insurance coverage, and a policy to expand access: experimental data from children in the Philippines pp. 620-630

Stella Luz Quimbo, John W. Peabody, Riti Shimkhada, Jhiedon Florentino and Orville Jose Solon

Volume 20, issue 4, 2011

Exploring the influence of proximity to death on disease‐specific hospital expenditures: a carpaccio of red herrings pp. 379-400

Albert Wong, Pieter H. M. van Baal, Hendriek C. Boshuizen and Johan J. Polder

Combat exposure and mental health: the long‐term effects among US Vietnam and Gulf war veterans pp. 401-416

Daniel M. Gade and Jeffrey B. Wenger

Do cigarette taxes affect children's body mass index? The effect of household environment on health pp. 417-431

Jennifer Mellor

Economic evaluation and the postponement of health care costs pp. 432-445

Pieter H. M. van Baal, Talitha L. Feenstra, Johan J. Polder, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen and Werner Brouwer

Using HMOs to serve the Medicaid population: what are the effects on utilization and does the type of HMO matter? pp. 446-460

Bradley Herring and E. Kathleen Adams

The simple economics of risk‐sharing agreements between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry pp. 461-470

Pedro Barros

Preference‐based index measurement of health‐related quality of life: when does it reflect only arbitrary settings of the researcher? pp. 471-483

Uwe Konerding

Does leaving welfare improve health? Evidence for Germany pp. 484-504

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

Volume 20, issue 3, 2011

Do state expenditures on tobacco control programs decrease use of tobacco products among college students? pp. 253-272

Christina Czart Ciecierski, Pinka Chatterji, Frank Chaloupka and Henry Wechsler

Does the number of choice sets matter? Results from a web survey applying a discrete choice experiment pp. 273-286

Mickael Bech, Trine Kjaer and Jørgen Lauridsen

Boys will be boys: are there gender differences in the effect of sexual abstinence on schooling? pp. 287-305

Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

The relationship between health and GDP in OECD countries in the very long run pp. 306-322

Robyn Swift

How does cost matter in health‐care discrete‐choice experiments? pp. 323-330

F. Reed Johnson, Ateesha F. Mohamed, Semra Özdemir, Deborah A. Marshall and Kathryn A. Phillips

Allowing for heterogeneity in monetary subjective well‐being valuations pp. 331-347

Emmanouil Mentzakis

A uniform time trade off method for states better and worse than dead: feasibility study of the ‘lead time’ approach pp. 348-361

Nancy Devlin, Aki Tsuchiya, Ken Buckingham and Carl Tilling

Foreign‐born nurses in the US labor market pp. 362-378

Edward J. Schumacher

Volume 20, issue 2, 2011

That instrument is lousy! In search of agreement when using instrumental variables estimation in substance use research pp. 127-146

Michael T. French and Ioana Popovici

Determinants of general practitioners' wages in England pp. 147-160

Stephen Morris, Rosalind Goudie, Matt Sutton, Hugh Gravelle, Robert Elliott, Arne Hole, Ada Ma, Bonnie Sibbald and Diane Skåtun

Mental health parity legislation, cost‐sharing and substance‐abuse treatment admissions pp. 161-183

Dhaval Dave and Swati Mukerjee

Does consumption of processed foods explain disparities in the body weight of individuals? The case of Guatemala pp. 184-195

Abay Asfaw

How to make rural jobs more attractive to health workers. Findings from a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania pp. 196-211

Julie Riise

Dangerous omissions: the consequences of ignoring decision uncertainty pp. 212-224

Susan C. Griffin, Karl Claxton, Stephen J. Palmer and Mark Sculpher

Multi‐tasking, quality and pay for performance pp. 225-238

Oddvar Kaarboe and Luigi Siciliani

Importance of health system context for evaluating utilization patterns across systems pp. 239-251

James F. Burgess, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Chris L. Bryson, Michael Chapko, John C. Fortney, Mark Perkins, Nancy D. Sharp and Chuan‐Fen Liu

Volume 20, issue 1, 2011

Editorial pp. 1-1

Alan Maynard and Andrew Jones

Discounting and decision making in the economic evaluation of health‐care technologies pp. 2-15

Karl Claxton, Mike Paulden, Hugh Gravelle, Werner Brouwer and Anthony Culyer

Discounting future health benefits: the poverty of consistency arguments pp. 16-26

Erik Nord

Health insurance, cost expectations, and adverse job turnover pp. 27-44

Randall Ellis and Ching-to Ma

The effect of education on health among US residents in relation to country of birth pp. 45-55

Bosu Seo and Benjamin Senauer

Measurement of QALYS and the welfare implications of survivor consumption and leisure forgone pp. 56-67

John A. Nyman

Welfare, QALYs, and costs – a comment pp. 68-72

Bengt Liljas

The impact of research on hospital costs of care: an empirical study pp. 73-84

Julia Bonastre, Marc le Vaillant and Gerard de Pouvourville

Costs and quality of hospitals in different health care systems: a multi‐level approach with propensity score matching pp. 85-100

Jonas Schreyögg, Tom Stargardt and Oliver Tiemann

Welfare properties of restrictions to health care based on cost effectiveness pp. 101-110

Laura Levaggi and Rosella Levaggi

Discounting future health gains: an empirical enquiry into the influence of growing life expectancy pp. 111-119

Ana Bobinac, Werner Brouwer and Job van Exel

Erratum: Estimating lifetime or episode‐of‐illness costs under censoring pp. 125-126

Anirban Basu and Willard Manning