Health Economics

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Volume 19, issue S1, 2010

Evaluating innovative health programs pp. 1-4

Andrew Jones, Lyn Squire and Ranjeeta Thomas

Impact evaluation of India's ‘Yeshasvini’ community‐based health insurance programme pp. 5-35

Aradhna Aggarwal

Teacher training and HIV/AIDS prevention in West Africa: regression discontinuity design evidence from the Cameroon pp. 36-54

Jean-Louis Arcand and Eric Djimeu Wouabe

The short‐term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women pp. 55-68

Sarah Baird, Ephraim Chirwa, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

An impact evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Program in China pp. 69-94

Xing Lin Feng, Guang Shi, Yan Wang, Ling Xu, Hao Luo, Juan Shen, Hui Yin and Yan Guo

Ghana's national health insurance scheme in the context of the health MDGs: an empirical evaluation using propensity score matching pp. 95-106

Joseph Mensah, Joseph R. Oppong and Christoph Schmidt

Evaluation of the impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine pp. 107-125

Olena Nizalova and Maria Vyshnya

Evaluating the impact of community‐based health interventions: evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program pp. 126-158

Romero Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

Family planning and fertility decline in rural Iran: the impact of rural health clinics pp. 159-180

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, M. Jalal Abbasi‐Shavazi and Meimanat Hosseini‐Chavoshi

Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation pp. 181-206

Rebecca Thornton, Laurel E. Hatt, Erica M. Field, Mursaleena Islam, Freddy Solís Diaz and Martha Azucena González

Volume 19, issue 12, 2010

Health expenditure and income in the United States pp. 1385-1403

F. Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

A two‐stage estimation of hospital quality using mortality outcome measures: an application using hospital administrative data pp. 1404-1424

Chew Chua, Alfons Palangkaraya and Jongsay Yong

Effects of venue‐specific state clean indoor air laws on smoking‐related outcomes pp. 1425-1440

Marianne Bitler, Christopher S. Carpenter and Madeline Zavodny

Does health affect portfolio choice? pp. 1441-1460

David Love and Paul A. Smith

Professionalism and the know‐do gap: exploring intrinsic motivation among health workers in Tanzania pp. 1461-1477

Kenneth Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu

Are cardiovascular diseases bad for economic growth? pp. 1478-1496

Marc Suhrcke and Dieter Urban

Bridging the gap: health equality and the deficit framing of health pp. 1497-1501

Alec Morton

Hypothetical versus real preferences: results from an opportunistic field experiment pp. 1502-1509

Stirling Bryan and Sue Jowett

Erratum: Valuing health technologies at NICE: recommendations for improved incorporation of treatment value in HTA pp. 1510-1510

Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson and Wesley Yin

Volume 19, issue 11, 2010

Health‐care reform in Australia: advancing or side‐stepping? pp. 1259-1263

Jane Hall

Estimating the impacts of cigarette taxes on youth smoking participation, initiation, and persistence: empirical evidence from Canada pp. 1264-1280

Anindya Sen and Tony Wirjanto

Marijuana use and high school dropout: the influence of unobservables pp. 1281-1299

Daniel F. McCaffrey, Rosalie Pacula, Bing Han and Phyllis Ellickson

How sensitive is physician performance to alternative compensation schedules? Evidence from a large network of primary care clinics pp. 1300-1317

Lorens A. Helmchen and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

The influence of traffic‐related pollution on individuals' life‐style: results from the BRFSS pp. 1318-1344

Cinzia Di Novi

The possible macroeconomic impact on the UK of an influenza pandemic pp. 1345-1360

Marcus R. Keogh‐Brown, Simon Wren‐Lewis, W. John Edmunds, Philippe Beutels and Richard D. Smith

Effects of state‐level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India pp. 1361-1376

Mansour Farahani, S. V. Subramanian and David Canning

The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behavior of young adults pp. 1377-1384

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

Volume 19, issue 10, 2010

Valuing health technologies at nice: recommendations for improved incorporation of treatment value in HTA pp. 1109-1116

Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson and Wesley Yin

The efficiency frontier approach to economic evaluation of health‐care interventions pp. 1117-1127

J. Jaime Caro, Erik Nord, Uwe Siebert, Alistair McGuire, Maurice McGregor, David Henry, Gérard de Pouvourville, Vincenzo Atella and Peter Kolominsky‐Rabas

The efficiency frontier approach to economic evaluation: will it help German policy making? pp. 1128-1131

Werner Brouwer and Frans F. H. Rutten

Sins of omission and obfuscation: IQWIG's guidelines on economic evaluation methods pp. 1132-1136

Mark Sculpher and Karl Claxton

IQWiG methods – a response to two critiques pp. 1137-1138

J. Jaime Caro, Erik Nord, Uwe Siebert, Alistair Mcguire, Maurice Mcgregor, David Henry, Gerard de Pouvourville, Vincenzo Atella and Peter Kolominsky‐Rabas

Some essential clarifications: IQWiG comments on two critiques of the efficiency frontier approach pp. 1139-1141

Charalabos‐Markos Dintsios and Andreas Gerber

Search costs and Medicare plan choice pp. 1142-1165

Ian McCarthy and Rusty Tchernis

Equity and efficiency in HIV‐treatment in South Africa: the contribution of mathematical programming to priority setting pp. 1166-1180

Susan Cleary, Gavin Mooney and Di McIntyre

Testing the Fetal Origins Hypothesis in a developing country: evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic pp. 1181-1192

Richard E. Nelson

Willingness‐to‐pay to avoid the time spent and discomfort associated with screening colonoscopy pp. 1193-1211

Daniel E. Jonas, Louise Russell, Jon Chou and Michael Pignone

The cost‐effectiveness of a law banning the use of cellular phones by drivers pp. 1212-1225

Daniel Sperber, Alan Shiell and Ken Fyie

DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine? pp. 1226-1239

Elin Johanna Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir and Luigi Siciliani

Investment in antiviral drugs: a real options approach pp. 1240-1254

Arthur Attema, Anna K. Lugnér and Talitha L. Feenstra

Comments on contingency management and conditional cash transfers pp. 1255-1258

Stephen T. Higgins

Volume 19, issue 9, 2010

Editors' introduction pp. 1007-1009

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Estimating lifetime or episode‐of‐illness costs under censoring pp. 1010-1028

Anirban Basu and Willard Manning

The geography of hospital admission in a national health service with patient choice pp. 1029-1047

Daniele Fabbri and Silvana Robone

The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self‐assessed health in Germany pp. 1048-1062

Patrick Hullegie and Tobias Klein

Quantile regression analysis of the rational addiction model: investigating heterogeneity in forward‐looking behavior pp. 1063-1074

Audrey Laporte, Alfia Karimova and Brian Ferguson

Double health insurance coverage and health care utilisation: evidence from quantile regression pp. 1075-1092

Sara Moreira and Pedro Barros

Disentangling incentives effects of insurance coverage from adverse selection in the case of drug expenditure: a finite mixture approach pp. 1093-1108

Murat Munkin and Pravin Trivedi

Volume 19, issue 8, 2010

I dreamed a dream: England reduces health inequalities and wins the world cup pp. 881-885

Stephen Birch

Patient‐reported outcome measures in the NHS: new methods for analysing and reporting EQ‐5D data pp. 886-905

Nancy Devlin, David Parkin and John Browne

Non‐pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK pp. 906-920

Massimiliano Bratti and Alfonso Miranda

Inequality of opportunities in health in France: a first pass pp. 921-938

Alain Trannoy, Sandy Tubeuf, Florence Jusot and Marion Devaux

Improving costing methods in multicentre economic evaluation: the use of multiple imputation for unit costs pp. 939-954

Richard Grieve, John Cairns and Simon G. Thompson

Cost‐effectiveness acceptability curves – caveats quantified pp. 955-963

Michał Jakubczyk and Bogumił Kamiński

The determinants of health‐care expenditure: new results from semiparametric estimation pp. 964-978

Helmut Herwartz and Bernd Theilen

The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans pp. 979-993

John Cawley, John Moran and Kosali Simon

Secondary school fees and the causal effect of schooling on health behavior pp. 994-1001

Steffen Reinhold and Hendrik Jürges

Drug development costs when financial risk is measured using the Fama–French three‐factor model pp. 1002-1005

John A. Vernon, Joseph H. Golec and Joseph DiMasi

Volume 19, issue 7, 2010

The value of informal care–a further investigation of the feasibility of contingent valuation in informal caregivers pp. 755-771

Claudine de Meijer, Werner Brouwer, Marc Koopmanschap, Bernard van den Berg and Job van Exel

SCHIP premiums, enrollment, and expenditures: a two state, competing risk analysis pp. 772-791

James Marton, Patricia G. Ketsche and Mei Zhou

The impact of health on individual retirement plans: self‐reported versus diagnostic measures pp. 792-813

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Mona Larsen

Alcohol consumption and body weight pp. 814-832

Michael T. French, Edward Norton, Hai Fang and Johanna Catherine Maclean

Alcohol use and the labor market in Uruguay pp. 833-854

Ana Balsa and Michael T. French

Adolescent depression and educational attainment: results using sibling fixed effects pp. 855-871

Jason Fletcher

Modelling health and output at business cycle horizons for the USA pp. 872-880

Paresh Narayan

Volume 19, issue 6, 2010

Bayesian methods in cost–effectiveness studies: objectivity, computation and other relevant aspects pp. 629-643

C. Armero, G. García‐Donato and A. López‐Quílez

Analysing risk attitudes to time pp. 644-655

Adam Oliver and Richard Cookson

Dynamics of work limitation and work in Australia pp. 656-669

Umut Oguzoglu

Think twice before you book? Modelling the choice of public vs private dentist in a choice experiment pp. 670-682

Urpo Kiiskinen, Anna Liisa Suominen‐Taipale and John Cairns

Shedding new light onto the ceiling and floor? A quantile regression approach to compare EQ‐5D and SF‐6D responses pp. 683-696

Janelle Seymour, Paul McNamee, Anthony Scott and Michela Tinelli

A model to predict the cost‐effectiveness of disease management programs pp. 697-715

Afschin Gandjour

Do regional primary‐care organisations influence primary‐care performance? A dynamic panel estimation pp. 716-729

Anthony Scott and William Coote

Gatekeeping versus direct‐access when patient information matters pp. 730-754

Paula González

Volume 19, issue 5, 2010

Social health insurance reexamined pp. 503-517

Adam Wagstaff

Dynamic versus static models in cost‐effectiveness analyses of anti‐viral drug therapy to mitigate an influenza pandemic pp. 518-531

Anna K. Lugnér, Sido D. Mylius and Jacco Wallinga

The role of the staff MFF in distributing NHS funding: taking account of differences in local labour market conditions pp. 532-548

Robert Elliott, Ada Ma, Matt Sutton, Diane Skatun, Nigel Rice, Stephen Morris and Alex McConnachie

Optimal clinical trial design using value of information methods with imperfect implementation pp. 549-561

Andrew R. Willan and Simon Eckermann

Operating on commission: analyzing how physician financial incentives affect surgery rates pp. 562-580

Jason Shafrin

The effect of newer drugs on health spending: do they really increase the costs? pp. 581-595

Abdülkadi̇r Ci̇van and Bülent Köksal

QALYs: is the value of treatment proportional to the size of the health gain? pp. 596-607

Erik Nord, Anja Undrum Enge and Veronica Gundersen

Health expenditure estimation and functional form: applications of the generalized gamma and extended estimating equations models pp. 608-627

Steven Hill and G. Edward Miller

Volume 19, issue 4, 2010

Supplemental health insurance and equality of access in Belgium pp. 377-395

Erik Schokkaert, Tom Van Ourti, Diana De Graeve, Ann Lecluyse and Carine Van de Voorde

Mental illness, nativity, gender and labor supply pp. 396-421

Victoria D. Ojeda, Richard G. Frank, Thomas G. McGuire and Todd P. Gilmer

International survey on willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for one additional QALY gained: what is the threshold of cost effectiveness? pp. 422-437

Takeru Shiroiwa, Yoon‐Kyoung Sung, Takashi Fukuda, Hui‐Chu Lang, Sang‐Cheol Bae and Kiichiro Tsutani

Suboptimal provision of preventive healthcare due to expected enrollee turnover among private insurers pp. 438-448

Bradley Herring

Fixing the game: are between‐silo differences in funding arrangements handicapping some interventions and giving others a head‐start? pp. 449-465

Leonie Segal, Kim Dalziel and Duncan Mortimer

Social interactions and smoking: evidence using multiple student cohorts, instrumental variables, and school fixed effects pp. 466-484

Jason Fletcher

On priority setting in preventive care resources pp. 485-490

Christophe Courbage

Labour participation of people living with HIV/AIDS in Spain pp. 491-500

Juan Oliva

Volume 19, issue 3, 2010

Modelling opportunity in health under partial observability of circumstances pp. 252-264

Pedro Rosa Dias

Gender gap in parents' financing strategy for hospitalization of their children: evidence from India pp. 265-279

Abay Asfaw, Francesca Lamanna and Stephan Klasen

Valuing health: a new proposal pp. 280-296

Daniel M. Hausman

New estimates of the demand for physical and mental health treatment pp. 297-315

Chad Meyerhoefer and Samuel H. Zuvekas

Non‐parametric methods for cost‐effectiveness analysis: the central limit theorem and the bootstrap compared pp. 316-333

Richard M. Nixon, David Wonderling and Richard D. Grieve

Does income‐related health inequality change as the population ages? Evidence from Swedish panel data pp. 334-349

M. Kamrul Islam, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Philip Clarke and Kristina Burström

Systematic reviews of economic evaluations: utility or futility? pp. 350-364

Rob Anderson

Determinants of Thailand household healthcare expenditure: the relevance of permanent resources and other correlates pp. 365-376

Albert Okunade, Chutima Suraratdecha and David A. Benson

Volume 19, issue 2, 2010

Preference‐based condition‐specific measures of health: what happens to cross programme comparability? pp. 125-129

John Brazier and Aki Tsuchiya

Spending on new drug development pp. 130-141

Christopher Paul Adams and Brantner Van Vu

Medical technology adoption, uncertainty, and irreversibilities: is a bird in the hand really worth more than in the bush? pp. 142-153

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

A social cost–benefit criterion for evaluating Voluntary Counseling and Testing with an application to Tanzania pp. 154-172

Robert Brent

An instrumental variables evaluation of the effect of antidepressant use on employment among HIV‐infected women using antiretroviral therapy in the United States: 1996–2004 pp. 173-188

Omar Galarraga, David Salkever, Judith A. Cook and Stephen J. Gange

Estimating health insurance impacts under unobserved heterogeneity: the case of Vietnam's health care fund for the poor pp. 189-208

Adam Wagstaff

Selection and the effect of prenatal smoking pp. 209-226

Angela R. Fertig

Smoking initiation in Germany: the role of intergenerational transmission pp. 227-242

Silja Göhlmann, Christoph Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: an empirical comparison pp. 243-250

David Madden

Volume 19, issue 1, 2010

Record rewards: the effects of targeted quality incentives on the recording of risk factors by primary care providers pp. 1-13

Matt Sutton, Ross Elder, Bruce Guthrie and Graham Watt

Physician's production of primary care in Ontario, Canada pp. 14-30

Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin and William Hogg

Investment in quality improvement: how to maximize the return pp. 31-42

Afschin Gandjour

Uncertainty and validation of health economic decision models pp. 43-55

Lois G. Kim and Simon G. Thompson

Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight transition countries pp. 56-74

Béatrice d'Hombres, Lorenzo Rocco, Marc Suhrcke and M. McKee

A game of two halves? Incentive incompatibility, starting point bias and the bidding game contingent valuation method pp. 75-87

Paul McNamee, Laura Ternent, Adjima Gbangou and David Newlands

Beneficiary price sensitivity in the Medicare prescription drug plan market pp. 88-100

Austin B. Frakt and Steven Pizer

Statistical implications of utility weighted and equally weighted HRQL measures: an empirical study pp. 101-110

Caitlyn T. Wilke, A. Simon Pickard, Surrey M. Walton, Joern Moock, Thomas Kohlmann and Todd A. Lee

Who pays attention in stated‐choice surveys? pp. 111-118

Semra Özdemir, Ateesha F. Mohamed, F. Reed Johnson and A. Brett Hauber