Health Economics

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Volume 29, issue S1, 2020

Innovation, aging, and health care: Unraveling “silver” from “red” herrings? pp. 3-7

Joan Costa‐Font and Rosella Levaggi

‘More than one red herring'? Heterogeneous effects of ageing on health care utilisation pp. 8-29

Joan Costa‐Font and Cristina Vilaplana‐Prieto

The strange case of less C‐sections: Hospital ownership, market concentration, and DRG‐tariff regulation pp. 30-46

Paolo Berta, Gianmaria Martini, Massimiliano Piacenza and Gilberto Turati

The impact of managed entry agreements on pharmaceutical prices pp. 47-62

Simona Gamba, Paolo Pertile and Sabine Vogler

The impact of drug quality ratings from health technology assessments on the adoption of new drugs by physicians in Germany pp. 63-82

Katharina Blankart and Tom Stargardt

Research funding and price negotiation for new drugs pp. 83-96

Francesca Barigozzi and Izabela Jelovac

Older patients and geographic barriers to pharmacy access: When nonadherence translates to an increased use of other components of health care pp. 97-109

Cinzia Di Novi, Lucia Leporatti and Marcello Montefiori

Explaining the causal effect of adherence to medication on cholesterol through the marginal patient pp. 110-126

Domenico Depalo

Volume 29, issue 12, 2020

Death by austerity? The impact of cost containment on avoidable mortality in Italy pp. 1500-1516

Emanuele Arcà, Francesco Principe and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The impact of the Ebola crisis on mortality and welfare in Liberia pp. 1517-1532

Shaun M. Da Costa

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act evaluation study: Child and adolescent behavioral health service expenditures and utilization pp. 1533-1548

Eryn Piper Block, Haiyong Xu, Francisca Azocar and Susan L. Ettner

The long‐run effects of noncommunicable disease shocks pp. 1549-1565

Tianxin Pan, Michael Palmer, Ajay Mahal, Peter Annear and Barbara McPake

A moneymaking scan: Dual reimbursement systems and supplier‐induced demand for diagnostic imaging pp. 1566-1585

Véra Zabrodina, Mark Dusheiko and Karine Moschetti

The effects of public health insurance on health behaviors: Evidence from the fifth year of Medicaid expansion pp. 1586-1605

Aparna Soni

Health expenditure of employees versus self‐employed individuals; a 5 year study pp. 1606-1619

Gerrie‐Cor Herber, Maarten Schipper, Marc Koopmanschap, Karin Proper, Fons van der Lucht, Hendriek Boshuizen, Johan Polder and Ellen Uiters

Does formal home care reduce inpatient length of stay? pp. 1620-1636

Brendan Walsh, Sean Lyons, Samantha Smith, Maev‐Ann Wren, James Eighan and Edgar Morgenroth

The early impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing policy on alcohol prices and sales pp. 1637-1656

Irena Palamani Xhurxhi

The impact of introducing a national scheme for paid parental leave on maternal mental health outcomes pp. 1657-1681

Anam Bilgrami, Kompal Sinha and Henry Cutler

The effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on hospital revenue pp. 1682-1704

Ali Moghtaderi, Jesse Pines, Mark Zocchi and Bernard Black

Maternal stress and birth outcomes: Evidence from an unexpected earthquake swarm pp. 1705-1720

Andrea Kutinova Menclova and Steven Stillman

Why are pharmacy acquisition costs and consumer prescription drug price indices apparently diverging? pp. 1721-1727

Carolyn Wolff and Randall Lutter

Insight into stagnating adult life expectancy: Analyzing cause of death patterns across socioeconomic groups pp. 1728-1743

Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Søren Kjærgaard and Carsten P. T. Rosenskjold

The effects of unexpected changes in demand on the performance of emergency departments pp. 1744-1763

Alex J. Turner, Laura Anselmi, Yiu‐Shing Lau and Matt Sutton

What explains differences in waiting times for health care across socioeconomic status? pp. 1764-1785

Nicolai Fink Simonsen, Anne Sophie Oxholm, Søren Kristensen and Luigi Siciliani

Avoidable environmental disasters and infant health: Evidence from a mining dam collapse in Brazil pp. 1786-1794

Bladimir Carrillo, Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel, Daniel Lopes and Breno Sampaio

Patient income and health innovation pp. 1795-1803

Javad Moradpour and Aidan Hollis

Free prescriptions for low‐income pensioners? The cost of returning to free‐of‐charge drugs in the Spanish National Health Service pp. 1804-1812

Jaume Puig‐Junoy and Jaime Pinilla

Health benefits of social insurance pp. 1813-1822

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Mahmoud Salari

Volume 29, issue 11, 2020

Medicaid expansion and non‐alcoholic beverage choices by low‐income households pp. 1327-1342

Xi He, Rigoberto Lopez and Rebecca Boehm

Treatment flows after outsourcing public insurance provision: Evidence from Florida Medicaid pp. 1343-1363

Elizabeth Munnich and Michael R. Richards

Mostly harmless regulation? Electronic cigarettes, public policy, and consumer welfare pp. 1364-1377

Donald Kenkel, Sida Peng, Michael Pesko and Hua Wang

Hardening subnational budget constraints via administrative subordination: The Italian experience of recovery plans in regional health services pp. 1378-1399

Massimo Bordignon, Silvia Coretti, Massimiliano Piacenza and Gilberto Turati

Click it or give it: Increased seat belt law enforcement and organ donation pp. 1400-1421

Ben Brewer

The effects of soda taxes on adolescent sugar intake and blood sugar pp. 1422-1434

Brandon Restrepo and Jonathan H. Cantor

Stirring the pot: Switching from blended fee‐for‐service to blended capitation models of physician remuneration pp. 1435-1455

Nibene H. Somé, Rose Anne Devlin, Nirav Mehta, Gregory S. Zaric and Sisira Sarma

Effects of conflict on child health: Evidence from the 1990–1994 Northern Mali Conflict pp. 1456-1474

Takahiro Tsujimoto and Yoko Kijima

What is it going to be, TTO or SG? A direct test of the validity of health state valuation pp. 1475-1481

Stefan A. Lipman, Werner Brouwer and Arthur Attema

The scale of COVID‐19 graphs affects understanding, attitudes, and policy preferences pp. 1482-1494

Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni and Sebastián Guidi

Volume 29, issue 10, 2020

The heterogeneous effect of retirement on informal care behavior pp. 1101-1116

Julien Bergeot and Roméo Fontaine

Tobacco control and household tobacco consumption: A tale of two educational groups pp. 1117-1131

Biplab Kumar Datta, Muhammad Jami Husain and Ishtiaque Fazlul

Framing and signalling effects of taxes on sugary drinks: A discrete choice experiment among households in Great Britain pp. 1132-1147

Laura Cornelsen, Matthew Quaife, Mylene Lagarde and Richard D. Smith

Hazardous or not? Cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men pp. 1148-1160

Jenny Williams and Jan van Ours

Eligibility or use? Disentangling the sources of horizontal inequity in home care receipt in the Netherlands pp. 1161-1179

Marianne Tenand, Pieter Bakx and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The effect of increased cost‐sharing on low‐value service use pp. 1180-1201

Jonathan Gruber, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Bill Wright, Eric Wilkinson and Kevin G. Volpp

Cash‐based maternal health interventions can improve childhood vaccination—Evidence from India pp. 1202-1219

Prabal K. De and Laxman Timilsina

Do public health activities pay for themselves? The effect of county‐level public health expenditures on county‐level public assistance medical care benefits in California pp. 1220-1230

Timothy Tyler Brown and Vishnu Murthy

The impact of Medicaid on medical utilization in a vulnerable population: Evidence from COFA migrants pp. 1231-1250

Timothy Halliday and Randall Q. Akee

Moral hazard and selection for voluntary deductibles pp. 1251-1269

Rob J. M. Alessie, Viola Angelini, Jochen Mierau and Laura Viluma

Provider responses to a global budgeting system: The case of drug expenditures in Taiwan hospitals pp. 1270-1278

Shin‐Yi Chou, James A. Dearden, Mary E. Deily and Hsien‐Ming Lien

Does greater unemployment make people thinner in Brazil? pp. 1279-1288

Lívia Triaca, Paulo de Andrade Jacinto, Marco Túlio Aniceto França and César Augusto Oviedo Tejada

The impact of sugar‐sweetened beverage taxes on purchases: Evidence from four city‐level taxes in the United States pp. 1289-1306

John Cawley, David Frisvold and David Jones

Assessing the impact of excluded attributes on choice in a discrete choice experiment using a follow‐up question pp. 1307-1315

Carol Mansfield, Jessie Sutphin and Marco Boeri

This is US: Geography of evidence in top health economics journals pp. 1316-1323

Kalle Hirvonen

Volume 29, issue 9, 2020

How well do doctors know their patients? Evidence from a mandatory access prescription drug monitoring program pp. 957-974

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Colleen M. Carey and Giacomo Meille

Credit where it is due: Investigating pathways from earned income tax credit expansion to maternal mental health pp. 975-991

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Fredric Blavin, Breno Braga and Jason Gates

Switching costs in competitive health insurance markets: The role of insurers' pricing strategies pp. 992-1012

Karine Lamiraud and Pierre Stadelmann

Preconception subsidized insurance: Prenatal care and birth outcomes by race/ethnicity pp. 1013-1030

Makayla Palmer

Local inequality and departures from publicly provided health care in Canada pp. 1031-1047

Maripier Isabelle and Mark Stabile

Primary care competition and quality of care: Empirical evidence from Medicare pp. 1048-1061

Christopher S. Brunt, Joshua Hendrickson and John R. Bowblis

The effects of paid sick leave on worker absenteeism and health care utilization pp. 1062-1070

Jie Chen, Chad Meyerhoefer and Lizhong Peng

Does attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder medication reduce entrepreneurship? pp. 1071-1077

Juhana Peltonen, Edvard Johansson and Joakim Wincent

Health insurance and self‐assessed health: New evidence from Affordable Care Act repeal fear pp. 1078-1085

Xiaoxue Li and Sarah Stith

Integrated care models and behavioral health care utilization: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Medicaid health homes pp. 1086-1097

Chandler McClellan, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Brendan Saloner, Emma E. McGinty and Michael Pesko

Volume 29, issue 8, 2020

Beyond COVID‐19: How the ‘dismal science’ can prepare us for the future pp. 851-853

Susan Chilton, Jytte Seested Nielsen and John Wildman

A lottery test of the effect of dispensaries on emergency room visits in Arizona pp. 854-864

Gregory Conyers and Ian Ayres

Entry and price competition in the over‐the‐counter drug market after deregulation: Evidence from Portugal pp. 865-877

Ana Moura and Pedro Barros

Limiting health‐care access to undocumented immigrants: A wise option? pp. 878-890

Dolores Jiménez‐Rubio and Judit Vall Castello

Later retirement, job strain, and health: Evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom pp. 891-912

Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser and Mauricio Avendano

Concierge care and patient reviews pp. 913-922

Louis R. Nemzer and Florence Neymotin

Which valued‐based price when patients are heterogeneous? pp. 923-935

Rosella Levaggi and Paolo Pertile

Who would benefit from average value‐based pricing? pp. 936-937

Doug Coyle

Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet pp. 938-944

Zarko Kalamov and Marco Runkel

Growth and capacity for cost‐effectiveness analysis in Africa pp. 945-954

Ari D. Panzer, Joanna G. Emerson, Brittany D'Cruz, Avnee Patel, Saudamini Dabak, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Yot Teerawattananon, Daniel A. Ollendorf, Peter J. Neumann and David D. Kim

Volume 29, issue 7, 2020

Open enrollment periods and plan choices pp. 733-747

Francesco Decarolis, Andrea Guglielmo and Clavin Luscombe

Disability and multidimensional quality of life: A capability approach to health status assessment pp. 748-765

Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Anthony Culyer and Ronald Smith

Determinants of nursing home choice: Does reported quality matter? pp. 766-777

Hendrik Schmitz and Magdalena A. Stroka‐Wetsch

Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms pp. 778-789

Benedicte Carlsen, Jo Lind and Karine Nyborg

The impact of sex education mandates on teenage pregnancy: International evidence pp. 790-807

David Paton, Stephen Bullivant and Juan Soto

A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data pp. 808-826

Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

Incentivizing efficient utilization without reducing access: The case against cost‐sharing in insurance pp. 827-840

Markus Rieger-Fels

Drink, death, and driving: Do blood alcohol content limit reductions improve road safety? pp. 841-847

Benjamin Cooper, Markus Gehrsitz and Stuart McIntyre

Volume 29, issue 6, 2020

Do financial incentives matter? Effects of Medicare price shocks on skilled nursing facility care pp. 655-670

Daifeng He, Peter McHenry and Jennifer M. Mellor

Do payor‐based outreach programs reduce medical cost and utilization? pp. 671-682

Benjamin Ukert, Guy David, Aaron Smith‐McLallen and Ravi Chawla

Exploring variations in health‐care expenditures—What is the role of practice styles? pp. 683-699

Alexander Ahammer and Thomas Schober

Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program pp. 700-715

Alan de Brauw and Amber Peterman

Patient choice, entry, and the quality of primary care: Evidence from Swedish reforms pp. 716-730

Jens Dietrichson, Lina Maria Ellegård and Gustav Kjellsson

Volume 29, issue 5, 2020

The Meliorist Project in health economics pp. 537-539

David Bishai and Lise Rochaix

Can your house keep you out of a nursing home? pp. 540-553

Maaike Diepstraten, Rudy Douven and Bram Wouterse

Health effects of reduced workload for older employees pp. 554-566

Espen Bratberg, Tor Helge Holmås and Karin Monstad

Distributional cost effectiveness analysis of West Yorkshire low emission zone policies pp. 567-579

Susan Griffin, Simon Walker and Mark Sculpher

An empirical investigation of time‐varying cost‐effectiveness across the product life cycle pp. 580-590

Warren Stevens, Devin Incerti, Desi Peneva, Anshu Shrestha, Gregory Smith and Krishnan Ramaswamy

Summer‐born struggle: The effect of school starting age on health, education, and work pp. 591-607

Simone Balestra, Beatrix Eugster and Helge Liebert

How protected classes in Medicare Part D influence U.S. drug sales, utilization, and price pp. 608-623

Courtney R. Yarbrough

The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach pp. 624-639

Adam Biener, John Cawley and Chad Meyerhoefer

Comparing the EQ‐5D‐5L crosswalks and value sets for England, the Netherlands and Spain: Exploring their impact on cost‐utility results pp. 640-651

Ângela Ben, Aureliano Paolo Finch, Johanna M. van Dongen, Maartje de Wit, Susan E.M. van Dijk, Frank J. Snoek, Marcel C. Adriaanse, Maurits W. van Tulder and Judith E. Bosmans

Volume 29, issue 4, 2020

The effect of physical education on children's body weight and human capital: New evidence from the ECLS‐K:2011 pp. 393-405

Steven Bednar and Kathryn Rouse

Losing body weight for money: How provider‐side financial incentives cause weight loss in Swiss low‐birth‐weight newborns pp. 406-418

Philip Hochuli

Medical marijuana and workers' compensation claiming pp. 419-434

Keshar Ghimire and Johanna Catherine Maclean

Equal long‐term care for equal needs with universal and comprehensive coverage? An assessment using Dutch administrative data pp. 435-451

Marianne Tenand, Pieter Bakx and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Child health as human capital pp. 452-463

Janet Currie

Social connections and tertiary health‐care utilization pp. 464-474

Sisir Debnath and Tarun Jain

Implementation of altered provider incentives for a more individual‐risk‐based assignment of dental recall intervals: evidence from a health systems reform in Denmark pp. 475-488

Frank Gabel, Olivier Kalmus, Kasper Rosing, Anna‐Lena Trescher and Stefan Listl

Demand for self‐tests: Evidence from a Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism field experiment pp. 489-507

Patrick Aylward, Hildah Essendi, Kristen Little and Nicholas Wilson

Adherence to medical follow‐up recommendations reduces hospital admissions: Evidence from diabetic patients in France pp. 508-522

Clémence Bussière, Nicolas Sirven, Thomas Rapp and Christine Sevilla‐Dedieu

Family formation and the demand for health insurance pp. 523-533

Denise Doiron and Nathan Kettlewell

Volume 29, issue 3, 2020

The effects of Medicaid expansion on labor market outcomes: Evidence from border counties pp. 245-260

Lizhong Peng, Xiaohui Guo and Chad Meyerhoefer

The effect of health insurance on crime: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion pp. 261-277

Qiwei He and Scott Barkowski

The effect of outdoor smoking ban: Evidence from Korea pp. 278-293

Hansoo Ko

Re‐examining the effects of public health insurance: The case of nonpoor children in Vietnam pp. 294-305

Minh T. Nguyen

Priority access to health care: Evidence from an exogenous policy shock pp. 306-323

Christine A. Yee, Aaron Legler, Michael Davies, Julia Prentice and Steven Pizer

Capacity constraints and time allocation in public health clinics pp. 324-336

Matthew Harris, Yinan Liu and Ian McCarthy

Welfare consequences of access to health insurance for rural households: Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China pp. 337-352

Jessica Ya Sun

A sales tax is better at promoting healthy diets than the fat tax and the thin subsidy pp. 353-366

Zarko Kalamov

The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States: A latent variables analysis pp. 367-381

Timothy Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder and Ashley Wong

The impact of reducing pharmaceutical industry payments on physician prescribing pp. 382-390

Sara Parker‐Lue

Volume 29, issue 2, 2020

Conditional cash transfers, spillovers, and informal health care: Evidence from Peru pp. 111-122

Natalia Guerrero, Oswaldo Molina and Diego Winkelried

Doctors' response to queues: Evidence from a Portuguese emergency department pp. 123-137

Bruno Martins and Luís Filipe

Closing down the shop: Optimal health and wealth dynamics near the end of life pp. 138-153

Julien Hugonnier, Florian Pelgrin and Pascal St‐Amour

The effect of unemployment on the smoking behavior of couples pp. 154-170

Jakob Everding and Jan Marcus

Reference‐based multiple imputation for missing data sensitivity analyses in trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis pp. 171-184

Baptiste Leurent, Manuel Gomes, Suzie Cro, Nicola Wiles and James R. Carpenter

When ignorance is bliss: Intentional agnosticism in drug approval pp. 185-194

Valentyn Litvin

Framing Flexible Spending Accounts: A Large‐Scale Field Experiment on Communicating the Return on Medical Savings Accounts pp. 195-208

Jessica Leight and Nicholas Wilson

Do hospitals respond to decreasing prices by supplying more services? pp. 209-222

Martin Salm and Ansgar Wübker

Factors associated with the timing of abortions pp. 223-233

Fidel Gonzalez, Troy Quast and Alex Venanzi

Survey modes comparison in contingent valuation: Internet panels and mail surveys pp. 234-242

Mandy Ryan, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Catriona Matheson and Christine Bond

Volume 29, issue 1, 2020

The effect of a ban on gender‐based pricing on risk selection in the German health insurance market pp. 3-17

Shan Huang and Martin Salm

Effect of early‐stage Alzheimer's disease on household financial outcomes pp. 18-29

Carole Roan Gresenz, Jean M. Mitchell, James Marrone and Howard J. Federoff

Unintended consequences of health insurance: Affordable Care Act's free contraception mandate and risky sex pp. 30-45

Barton Willage

The heterogeneous causal effects of neonatal care: a model of endogenous demand for multiple treatment options based on geographical access to care pp. 46-60

Rubén E. Mújica‐Mota, Paolo Landa, Martin Pitt, Mike Allen and Anne Spencer

Readmission treatment price and product quality in the hospital sector pp. 61-71

Roberto Cellini and Domenico Lisi

The earned income tax credit and infant health revisited pp. 72-84

Daniel Dench and Theodore Joyce

Comparing aversions to outcome inequality and social risk in health and income: An empirical analysis using hypothetical scenarios with losses pp. 85-97

Ignacio Abasolo and Aki Tsuchiya

Occupational variation in the relationship between child health and family size pp. 98-103

Jayanta Sarkar