Health Economics

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Volume 32, issue 12, 2023

The spark that ignited 40 years of empirical research on health production pp. 2675-2678

John Mullahy

Subdermal contraceptive implants and repeat teenage motherhood: Evidence from a major maternity hospital‐based program in Uruguay pp. 2679-2693

Zuleika Ferre, Patricia Triunfo and José‐Ignacio Antón

Lasting scars: The impact of depression in early adulthood on subsequent labor market outcomes pp. 2694-2708

Buyi Wang, Richard Frank and Sherry Glied

Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage pp. 2709-2729

Ha Nguyen, Huong Thu Le, Luke Connelly and Francis Mitrou

Elderly responses to private health insurance incentives: Evidence from Australia pp. 2730-2744

Judith Liu and Yuting Zhang

Health and labor market effects of an unanticipated rise in retirement age. Evidence from the 2012 Italian pension reform pp. 2745-2767

Manuel Serrano‐Alarcón, Chiara Ardito, Roberto Leombruni, Alexander Kentikelenis, Angelo d’Errico, Anna Odone, Giuseppe Costa, David Stuckler and Iwgrh

A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health pp. 2768-2800

Felix Glaser and Gerald Pruckner

The effect of untargeted naloxone distribution on opioid overdose outcomes pp. 2801-2818

William N. Dowd

Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey pp. 2819-2835

Hai-Anh Dang, Trong‐Anh Trinh and Paolo Verme

The long‐term effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of public health interventions; how can we model behavior? A review pp. 2836-2854

Hazel Squires, Michael P. Kelly, Nigel Gilbert, Falko Sniehotta and Robin C. Purshouse

Early life exposure to cold weather shocks and growth stunting: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 2855-2879

Josephat J. Hongoli and Youjin Hahn

Volume 32, issue 11, 2023

The effect of hospital spending on waiting times pp. 2427-2445

Callum Brindley, James Lomas and Luigi Siciliani

School starting age policy and students' risky health behaviors pp. 2446-2459

Yoosik Shin

Long‐term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador pp. 2460-2476

Jimena Pacheco Miranda and Natascha Wagner

Increasing capitation in mixed remuneration schemes: Effects on service provision and process quality of care pp. 2477-2498

Christian Volmar Skovsgaard, Troels Kristensen, Ryan Pulleyblank and Kim Rose Olsen

The impact of COVID‐19 shelter‐in‐place policy responses on excess mortality pp. 2499-2515

Virat Agrawal, Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley

Ex‐ante moral hazard and health insurance: Evidence from China's urban residence basic medical insurance scheme pp. 2516-2534

Chen Chen, Gordon Guoen Liu, Tangxin Wang and Jialong Tan

Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution pp. 2535-2567

Mengna Luan, Zhigang Tao and Hongjie Yuan

Modeled health economic and equity impact on dental caries and health outcomes from a 20% sugar sweetened beverages tax in Australia pp. 2568-2582

Tan Minh Nguyen, Utsana Tonmukayakul, Long Khanh‐Dao Le, Ankur Singh, Anita Lal, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Hanny Calache and Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Long‐run intergenerational health benefits of women empowerment: Evidence from suffrage movements in the US pp. 2583-2631

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Farzaneh Noghani

Mortality inequality, spatial differences and health care access pp. 2632-2654

Kadir Atalay, Rebecca Edwards and Fiona Georgiakakis

The health, economic and social burden of smoking in Argentina, and the impact of increasing tobacco taxes in a context of illicit trade pp. 2655-2672

Alfredo Palacios, Andrea Alcaraz, Agustín Casarini, Federico Rodriguez Cairoli, Natalia Espinola, Dario Balan, Lucas Perelli, Federico Augustovski, Ariel Bardach and Andrés Pichon‐Riviere

Volume 32, issue 9, 2023

Spillover effect of the Patient Drive Payment Model on skilled nursing facility therapy delivery among Medicare Advantage enrollees pp. 1887-1897

Momotazur Rahman, David Meyers, Elizabeth M. White, Brian E. McGarry, Christopher Santostefano, Linda Resnik and David C. Grabowski

The heterogeneous impact of stricter criteria for disability insurance pp. 1898-1920

Tunga Kantarcı, Jan‐Maarten van Sonsbeek and Yi Zhang

Estimating the heterogeneous health and well‐being returns to social participation pp. 1921-1940

Anna Wilding, Luke Munford and Matt Sutton

Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru pp. 1941-1963

Thao Bui

Consistent valuation of a reduction in mortality risk using values per life, life year, and quality‐adjusted life year pp. 1964-1981

James Hammitt

Excess deaths by cause and place of death in England and Wales during the first year of COVID‐19 pp. 1982-2005

Ioannis Laliotis, Charitini Stavropoulou, Greg Ceely, Georgia Brett and Rachel Rushton

The impact of a mandatory universal drug insurance program on health behaviors and outcomes pp. 2006-2046

Laetitia Lebihan

Information shocks and celebrity exposure: The effect of “Magic” Johnson on AIDS diagnoses and mortality in the U.S pp. 2047-2079

Alexander Cardazzi, Joshua C. Martin and Zachary Rodriguez

Back to basics: A mediation analysis approach to addressing the fundamental questions of integrated care evaluations pp. 2080-2097

David G. Lugo‐Palacios, Jonathan M. Clarke and Søren Kristensen

Identifying the impact of health insurance on subgroups with changing rates of diagnosis pp. 2098-2112

Daniel Kaliski

How does a local instrumental variable method perform across settings with instruments of differing strengths? A simulation study and an evaluation of emergency surgery pp. 2113-2126

Silvia Moler‐Zapata, Richard Grieve, Anirban Basu and Stephen O’Neill

The impact of the Mamata conditional cash transfer program on child nutrition in Odisha, India pp. 2127-2146

Vedavati Patwardhan

Economic preferences and obesity: Evidence from a clinical lab‐in‐field study pp. 2147-2167

Chiara Pastore, Stefanie Schurer, Agnieszka Tymula, Nicholas Fuller and Ian Caterson

Volume 32, issue 8, 2023

Risk aversion and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy pp. 1659-1669

Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew Borga, Andrew Clark, Claus Vögele and Conchita D’Ambrosio

Long‐term health effects of a school construction program pp. 1670-1688

Muhammad Fikru Rizal, Nicole Black, David Johnston and Rohan Sweeney

Catastrophic health‐care payments and multidimensional poverty: Are they related? pp. 1689-1709

Mónica Pinilla‐Roncancio, Jeannette Liliana Amaya‐Lara, Gustavo Cedeño‐Ocampo, Paul Rodríguez‐Lesmes and Carlos Sepúlveda

Can decision field theory enhance our understanding of health‐based choices? Evidence from risky health behaviors pp. 1710-1732

David A. J. Meester, Stephane Hess, John Buckell and Thomas O. Hancock

Using exogenous organizational and regional hospital attributes to explain differences in case‐mix adjusted hospital costs pp. 1733-1748

Michael M. Havranek, Josef Ondrej, Philippe K. Widmer, Stella Bollmann, Simon Spika and Stefan Boes

Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis pp. 1749-1766

Sung‐Hee Jeon, Jungwee Park and Dafna Kohen

The highly educated live longer: The role of time preference, cognitive ability, and educational plans pp. 1767-1784

Lisa Josefin Norrgren

Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics pp. 1785-1817

Jeannette Brosig‐Koch, Burkhard Hehenkamp and Johanna Kokot

The social value of a SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine: Willingness to pay estimates from four western countries pp. 1818-1835

Joan Costa‐Font, Caroline Rudisill, Sayward Harrison and Luca Salmasi

Newborns during the crisis: Evidence from the 1980s′ farm crisis pp. 1836-1867

Chan Yu

Cream skimming and discrimination in access to medical care: A field experiment pp. 1868-1883

Sylvain Chareyron, Yannick L’Horty and Pascale Petit

Volume 32, issue 7, 2023

Impact of tariff refinement on the choice between scheduled C‐section and normal delivery: Evidence from France pp. 1397-1433

Alex Proshin, Alexandre Cazenave‐Lacroutz and Lise Rochaix

Preparing for future pandemics: A multi‐national comparison of health and economic trade‐offs pp. 1434-1452

Emily Lancsar, Elisabeth Huynh, Joffre Swait, Robert Breunig, Craig Mitton, Martyn Kirk and Cam Donaldson

A structural analysis of physician agency and pharmaceutical demand pp. 1453-1477

Meng‐Chi Tang

Is Asian flushing syndrome a disadvantage in the labor market? pp. 1478-1503

Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee, Ming‐Jen Lin and Izumi Yokoyama

Is primary health care worth it in the long run? Evidence from Brazil pp. 1504-1524

Natalia Nunes Ferreira‐Batista, Adriano Dutra Teixeira, Maria Dolores Diaz, Fernando Antonio Postali, Rodrigo Moreno‐Serra and James Love‐Koh

The impact of performance‐based financing within local health systems: Evidence from Mozambique pp. 1525-1549

Laura Anselmi, Julius Ohrnberger, Eleonora Fichera, Pedroso Nhassengo, Quinhas F. Fernandes and Sergio Chicumbe

Economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease mortality pp. 1550-1560

Ichiro Kawachi, Ilias Kyriopoulos and Sotiris Vandoros

Cognitive activity at work and the risk of dementia pp. 1561-1580

Nicolau Martin‐Bassols, Sonja C. de New, David Johnston and Michael Shields

The impact of Disability Insurance reassessment on healthcare use pp. 1581-1602

Samia Badji, Anne Kavanagh and Dennis Petrie

Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions pp. 1603-1625

Penny R. Breeze, Hazel Squires, Kate Ennis, Petra Meier, Kate Hayes, Nik Lomax, Alan Shiell, Frank Kee, Frank de Vocht, Martin O’Flaherty, Nigel Gilbert, Robin Purshouse, Stewart Robinson, Peter J Dodd, Mark Strong, Suzy Paisley, Richard Smith, Andrew Briggs, Lion Shahab, Jo‐An Occhipinti, Kenny Lawson, Thomas Bayley, Robert Smith, Jennifer Boyd, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Richard Cookson, Monica Hernandez‐Alava, Christopher H. Jackson, Amanda Karapici, Franco Sassi, Peter Scarborough, Uwe Siebert, Eric Silverman, Luke Vale, Cathal Walsh and Alan Brennan

Who did the ACA Medicaid expansion impact? Estimating the probability of being a complier pp. 1626-1655

Benjamin C. Chu

Volume 32, issue 6, 2023

Public health crisis and risky road behaviors pp. 1205-1219

Yau‐Huo (Jimmy) Shr and Feng‐An Yang

The impact of cold waves and heat waves on mortality: Evidence from a lower middle‐income country pp. 1220-1243

Cuong Nguyen, Manh‐Hung Nguyen and Toan Nguyen

Supporting the revision of the health benefits package in Uganda: A constrained optimisation approach pp. 1244-1255

Sakshi Mohan, Simon Walker, Freddie Sengooba, Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho, Chrispus Mayora, Aloysius Ssennyonjo, Candia Tom Aliti and Paul Revill

Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? Evidence from the United States during a pandemic pp. 1256-1283

Martin Andersen, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Michael Pesko and Kosali Simon

Comparison of a full and partial choice set design in a labeled discrete choice experiment pp. 1284-1304

Thao Thai, Michiel Bliemer, Gang Chen, Jean Spinks, Sonja de New and Emily Lancsar

A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health pp. 1305-1322

Giampiero Marra, Matteo Fasiolo, Rosalba Radice and Rainer Winkelmann

Short‐term effect of retirement on health: Evidence from nonparametric fuzzy regression discontinuity design pp. 1323-1343

Mohamed Ebeid and Umut Oguzoglu

Selective referral or learning by doing? An analysis of hospital volume‐outcome relationship of vascular procedures pp. 1344-1361

Jakub Červený

The effect of “failed” community mental health centers on non‐white mortality pp. 1362-1393

Mallory Avery and Jessica LaVoice

Volume 32, issue 5, 2023

Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics pp. 985-992

Martin Hensher

The role of civic capital on vaccination pp. 993-999

Paolo Buonanno, Sergio Galletta and Marcello Puca

The socioeconomic inequity in healthcare utilization among individuals with cardiovascular diseases in India pp. 1000-1018

Azharuddin Akhtar and Indrani Roy Chowdhury

Movies, stigma and choice: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry pp. 1019-1039

Mayank Aggarwal, Anindya S. Chakrabarti and Chirantan Chatterjee

Estimating the value of life expectancy gains in Tanzania using the life satisfaction and model based approaches pp. 1040-1063

Shaun Da Costa

Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters pp. 1064-1083

Hung‐Hao Chang and Chad Meyerhoefer

School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion pp. 1084-1100

Emanuele Amodio, Michele Battisti, Antonio Francesco Gravina, Andrea Lavezzi and Giuseppe Maggio

Keeping an eye on cost: What can eye tracking tell us about attention to cost information in discrete choice experiments? pp. 1101-1119

Mesfin G Genie, Mandy Ryan and Nicolas Krucien

Long‐term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China pp. 1120-1147

Ze Chen, Yuan Wang, Yanjun Guan, Michael Jie Guo and Rong Xu

Opening of hotels and ski facilities: Impact on mobility, spending, and Covid‐19 outcomes pp. 1148-1180

Krzysztof Zaremba

Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for planned and cancer surgery: Evidence from Spain pp. 1181-1201

Laia Bosque‐Mercader, Neus Carrilero, Anna García‐Altés, Guillem López‐Casasnovas and Luigi Siciliani

Volume 32, issue 4, 2023

Recreational cannabis and opioid distribution pp. 747-754

Shyam Raman, Johanna Catherine Maclean, W. David Bradford and Coleman Drake

Medicaid Expansion and mental health treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act pp. 755-806

Alberto Ortega

Do good carefully: The long‐term effects of low‐dose DDT exposure in early childhood on education, marriage and employment pp. 807-821

Simon Chang and Kamhon Kan

Implementation and spillovers of local non‐pharmaceutical interventions pp. 822-852

Anna Godøy and Maja Weemes Grøtting

Does affirmative action reduce disparities in healthcare use by Indigenous peoples? Evidence from Australia's Indigenous Practice Incentives Program pp. 853-872

Karinna Saxby, Joshua Byrnes, Sonja C. de New, Son Nghiem and Dennis Petrie

Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services and behavioral health outcomes pp. 873-909

Johanna Catherine Maclean, Chandler McClellan, Michael Pesko and Daniel Polsky

Clan loyalty and COVID‐19 diffusion: Evidence from China pp. 910-938

Kebin Deng, Zhong Ding and Xu Liu

From financial wealth shocks to ill‐health: Allostatic load and overload pp. 939-952

Declan French

Extreme temperatures, mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from the county level in China pp. 953-969

Hua Liao, Chen Zhang, Paul Burke, Ru Li and Yi‐Ming Wei

Diffusion of a new drug among ambulatory physicians—The impact of patient pathways pp. 970-982

Ronja Flemming, Franziska Frölich, Norbert Donner‐Banzhoff and Leonie Sundmacher

Volume 32, issue 3, 2023

Exposure in utero to adverse events and health late‐in‐life: Evidence from China pp. 541-557

Jiyuan Wang, Rob Alessie and Viola Angelini

Impact of long‐term care insurance on the health status of middle‐aged and older adults pp. 558-573

Jingyi Wang, Jing Guan and Guojun Wang

The effect of health financing systems on health system outcomes: A cross‐country panel analysis pp. 574-619

Jacopo Gabani, Sumit Mazumdar and Marc Suhrcke

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and related policy responses on non‐COVID‐19 healthcare utilization in China pp. 620-638

Feng Huang and Hong Liu

Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs pp. 639-653

Judith Liu, Yuting Zhang and Cameron M. Kaplan

Partially different? The importance of general equilibrium in health economic evaluations: An application to nocturia pp. 654-674

Marco Hafner, Erez Yerushalmi, Fredrik L. Andersson and Teodor Burtea

Grading bias and young adult mental health pp. 675-696

Anna Linder, Martin Nordin, Ulf‐G. Gerdtham and Gawain Heckley

The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization pp. 697-714

Tareena Musaddiq

Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: Evidence from linked national Medicare claims data pp. 715-734

Danusha Jayawardana, Brenda Gannon, Jenny Doust and Gita D. Mishra

Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old‐age mortality pp. 735-743

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Volume 32, issue 2, 2023

Assessing the impact of enforcement and compliance with minimum staffing standards on the quality of care in nursing homes: Evidence from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' staff star rating downgrade policy pp. 235-276

Christopher S. Brunt

Recreational marijuana laws and the misuse of prescription opioids: Evidence from National Survey on Drug Use and Health microdata pp. 277-301

Mir M. Ali, Chandler McClellan, Ryan Mutter and Daniel I. Rees

Parallel imports under a manufacturer rebate and a price freeze: Evidence from Germany pp. 302-323

Laura Birg

Unintended health benefits of adopting preventive behaviors during a virus outbreak pp. 324-342

Sok Chul Hong, Eunju Lee and Seojung Oh

Impact of prevention in primary care on costs in primary and secondary care for people with serious mental illness pp. 343-355

Jemimah Ride, Panos Kasteridis, Nils Gutacker, Hugh Gravelle, Nigel Rice, Anne Mason, Maria Goddard, Tim Doran and Rowena Jacobs

Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing pp. 356-374

Sean Urwin, Yiu‐Shing Lau, Gunn Grande and Matt Sutton

The impact of Community Health Centers on inappropriate use of emergency services pp. 375-394

Matteo Lippi Bruni, Cristina Ugolini, Rossella Verzulli and Anna Caterina Leucci

Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence pp. 395-412

Trung Vu

More cost‐sharing, less cost? Evidence on reference price drugs pp. 413-435

Annika Herr, Torben Stühmeier and Tobias Wenzel

Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters pp. 436-461

Signe A. Abrahamsen and Maja Weemes Grøtting

The local health impacts of natural resource booms pp. 462-500

Elisa M. Maffioli

The effects of a national policy to reduce c‐sections in Brazil pp. 501-517

Carolina Melo and Naercio Menezes‐Filho

Public drug insurance, moral hazard and children's use of mental health medication: Latent mental health risk‐specific responses to lower out‐of‐pocket treatment costs pp. 518-538

Jill Furzer, Maripier Isabelle, Boriana Miloucheva and Audrey Laporte

Volume 32, issue 1, 2023

Testing for selection bias and moral hazard in private health insurance: Evidence from a mixed public‐private health system pp. 3-24

Clifford Afoakwah, Joshua Byrnes, Paul Scuffham and Son Nghiem

The impact of price promotions on sales of unhealthy food and drink products in British retail stores pp. 25-46

Toby Watt, Walter Beckert, Richard Smith and Laura Cornelsen

Do sugar‐sweetened beverage taxes improve public health for high school aged adolescents? pp. 47-64

James Flynn

Health effects of a ban on late‐night alcohol sales pp. 65-89

Matthias Bäuml, Jan Marcus and Thomas Siedler

Omnibus or Ominous immigration laws? Immigration policy and mental health of the Hispanic population pp. 90-106

Tianyuan Luo and Genti Kostandini

Effects of marriage equality legislation on sexual health of the US population pp. 107-133

Dimitrios Nikolaou

Nursing homes and mortality in Europe: Uncertain causality pp. 134-154

Xavier Flawinne, Mathieu Lefebvre, Sergio Perelman, Pierre Pestieau and Jérôme Schoenmaeckers

Mental health over the life course: Evidence for a U‐shape? pp. 155-174

Hermien Dijk and Jochen Mierau

Bidirectional intimate partner violence: Evidence from a list experiment in Kenya pp. 175-193

Carolina Castilla and David Murphy

Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods pp. 194-217

Evan D. Peet, Dana Schultz, Susan Lovejoy and Fuchiang (Rich) Tsui

Willingness to pay for policies to reduce health risks from COVID‐19: Evidence from U.S. professional sports pp. 218-231

Brad Humphreys, Gary A. Wagner, John Whitehead and Pamela Wicker