Health Economics

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Volume 28, issue 12, 2019

U.K. utility weights for the EORTC QLU‐C10D pp. 1385-1401

Richard Norman, Rebecca Mercieca‐Bebber, Donna Rowen, John E. Brazier, David Cella, A. Simon Pickard, Deborah J. Street, Rosalie Viney, Dennis Revicki, Madeleine T. King and On behalf of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group and the MAUCa Consortium

Valuing health using EQ‐5D: The impact of chronic diseases on the stock of health pp. 1402-1417

Eduardo Sánchez‐Iriso, Maria Errea Rodríguez and Juan Manuel Cabasés Hita

Production of physician services under fee‐for‐service and blended fee‐for‐service: Evidence from Ontario, Canada pp. 1418-1434

Nibene H. Somé, Rose Anne Devlin, Nirav Mehta, Greg Zaric, Lihua Li, Salimah Shariff, Bachir Belhadji, Amardeep Thind, Amit Garg and Sisira Sarma

The formation of physician patient sharing networks in medicare: Exploring the effect of hospital affiliation pp. 1435-1448

Sebastian Linde

Adverse health effects of abuse‐deterrent opioids: Evidence from the reformulation of OxyContin pp. 1449-1461

David Beheshti

Health insurance reform and retirement: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act pp. 1462-1475

Kevin Wood

The effects of state‐level earned income tax credits on suicides pp. 1476-1482

Otto Lenhart

Is changing the minimum legal drinking age an effective policy tool? pp. 1483-1490

Nicolai Brachowicz and Judit Vall Castello

Medicaid expansion and opioid deaths pp. 1491-1496

Susan L. Averett, Julie Smith and Yang Wang

Volume 28, issue 11, 2019

Do financial incentives influence the hospitalization rate of nursing home residents? Evidence from Germany pp. 1235-1247

Christian Kümpel

Long‐distance effects of epidemics: Assessing the link between the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and U.S. exports and employment pp. 1248-1261

Deliana Kostova, Cynthia H. Cassell, John T. Redd, Desmond E. Williams, Tushar Singh, Lise D. Martel and Rebecca E. Bunnell

Uncontrolled diabetes and health care utilisation: A bivariate latent Markov model approach pp. 1262-1276

Joan Gil, Paolo Li Donni and Eugenio Zucchelli

Practice variation in long‐term care access and use: The role of the ability to pay pp. 1277-1292

Daisy Duell, Maarten Lindeboom, Xander Koolman and France Portrait

The effect of bariatric surgery on health care costs: A synthetic control approach using Bayesian structural time series pp. 1293-1307

Christoph F. Kurz, Martin Rehm, Rolf Holle, Christina Teuner, Michael Laxy and Larissa Schwarzkopf

Sequence effects in time trade‐off valuation of hypothetical health states pp. 1308-1319

José Luis Pinto‐Prades, Neil McHugh, Cam Donaldson and Sarkis Manoukian

Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award pp. 1320-1330

Mascia Bedendo and Linus Siming

The marginal benefits of healthcare spending in the Netherlands: Estimating cost‐effectiveness thresholds using a translog production function pp. 1331-1344

Niek Stadhouders, Xander Koolman, Christel van Dijk, Patrick Jeurissen and Eddy Adang

The effect of the Affordable Care Act preexisting conditions provision on marriage pp. 1345-1355

Matt Hampton and Otto Lenhart

Recruiting and retaining dental labor in federal facilities: Harder than pulling teeth? pp. 1356-1369

Michael R. Richards and Coady Wing

Socio‐economic inequality in health service utilisation: Does accounting for seasonality in health‐seeking behaviour matter? pp. 1370-1376

John Ataguba

Vaccine hesitancy and (fake) news: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Italy pp. 1377-1382

Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio and Francesco Principe

Volume 28, issue 10, 2019

Time flies … pp. 1161-1162

Andrew Jones

Health and evidence in health economics pp. 1163-1165

John Mullahy

Payment models in primary health care: A driver of the quantity and quality of medical laboratory utilization pp. 1166-1178

Nadine Chami and Arthur Sweetman

Electronic medical records and medical procedure choice: Evidence from cesarean sections pp. 1179-1193

Seth Freedman and Noah Hammarlund

The effect of decision fatigue on surgeons' clinical decision making pp. 1194-1203

Emil Persson, Kinga Barrafrem, Andreas Meunier and Gustav Tinghög

Can a results‐based bottom‐up reform improve health system performance? Evidence from the rural health project in China pp. 1204-1219

Hao Zhang, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Ling Xu, Yaoguang Zhang and Joris van de Klundert

Nurse practitioner's independent prescriptive authority and opioids abuse pp. 1220-1225

Anca M. Grecu and Lee Spector

Reassessing the labor market effects of California's minimum nurse staffing regulations pp. 1226-1231

David Harless

Volume 28, issue 9, 2019

Neighbourhood ethnic diversity and mental health in Australia pp. 1075-1087

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Lisa Farrell and Russell Smyth

Causes of regional variation in Dutch healthcare expenditures: Evidence from movers pp. 1088-1098

Ana Moura, Martin Salm, Rudy Douven and Minke Remmerswaal

Encouraging use of prenatal care through conditional cash transfers: Evidence from JUNTOS in Peru pp. 1099-1113

Juan Jose Diaz and Victor Saldarriaga

Financial incentives and physician prescription behavior: Evidence from dispensing regulations pp. 1114-1129

Daniel Burkhard, Christian Schmid and Kaspar Wüthrich

Price effects of a hospital merger: Heterogeneity across health insurers, hospital products, and hospital locations pp. 1130-1145

Anne‐Fleur Roos, Ramsis R. Croes, Victoria Shestalova, Marco Varkevisser and Frederik T. Schut

Public health expenditures, taxation, and growth pp. 1146-1150

Bebonchu Atems

The demand for preventive and restorative dental services among older adults pp. 1151-1158

Chad Meyerhoefer, Samuel H. Zuvekas, Bita Fayaz Farkhad, John F. Moeller and Richard J. Manski

Volume 28, issue 8, 2019

How do economic downturns affect the mental health of children? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey pp. 955-970

Ezra Golberstein, Gilbert Gonzales and Ellen Meara

Development of clinical value unit method for calculating patient costs pp. 971-983

Malgorzata Cyganska, Piotr Cyganski and Chris Pyke

Investigating the relationship between formal and informal care: An application using panel data for people living together pp. 984-997

Sean Urwin, Yiu‐Shing Lau and Thomas Mason

Roommate effects in health outcomes pp. 998-1034

Paul Frijters, Asad Islam, Chitwan Lalji and Debayan Pakrashi

The impact of pharmaceutical marketing on market access, treatment coverage, pricing, and social welfare pp. 1035-1051

Gregory J. Critchley and Gregory S. Zaric

Methods for public health economic evaluation: A Delphi survey of decision makers in English and Welsh local government pp. 1052-1063

Emma Frew and Katie Breheny

Rabin's paradox for health outcomes pp. 1064-1071

Stefan A. Lipman and Arthur Attema

Volume 28, issue 7, 2019

Did UberX reduce ambulance volume? pp. 817-829

Leon Moskatel and David Slusky

How do hospitals respond to price changes in emergency departments? pp. 830-842

Beth Parkinson, Rachel Meacock and Matt Sutton

QALYs without bias? Nonparametric correction of time trade‐off and standard gamble weights based on prospect theory pp. 843-854

Stefan A. Lipman, Werner Brouwer and Arthur Attema

Do cancer treatments have option value? Real‐world evidence from metastatic melanoma pp. 855-867

Meng Li, Anirban Basu, Caroline S. Bennette, David L. Veenstra and Louis P. Garrison

Information presentation and consumer choice: Evidence from Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Success Rate Reports pp. 868-883

Bingxiao Wu

A direct regression approach to decomposing socioeconomic inequality of health pp. 884-905

Roselinde Kessels and Guido Erreygers

Act now: The effects of the 2008 Spanish disability reform pp. 906-920

Matthew J. Hill, José Silva and Judit Vall Castello

The mortality effects of changing public funding for home health care: An empirical analysis of Medicare home health care in the United States pp. 921-936

Chiara Orsini

Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture pp. 937-952

John Cawley, Euna Han, Jiyoon Kim and Edward Norton

Volume 28, issue 6, 2019

Here comes the SUN: Self‐assessed unmet need, worsening health outcomes, and health care inequity pp. 727-735

Grant Gibson, Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley and Li Wang

The influence of misperceptions about social norms on substance use among school‐aged adolescents pp. 736-747

Aliaksandr Amialchuk, Gbenga Ajilore and Kevin Egan

Estimating conversion rates: A new empirical strategy with an application to health care in Italy pp. 748-764

Enrica Chiappero‐Martinetti, Paola Salardi and Francesco Scervini

Measuring catastrophic medical expenditures: Reflections on three issues pp. 765-781

Adam Wagstaff

Do differences in reported expenditures between household scanner data and expenditure surveys matter in health policy research? pp. 782-800

Chen Zhen, Mary Muth, Abigail Okrent, Shawn Karns, Derick Brown and Peter Siegel

Beyond the cost‐effectiveness acceptability curve: The appropriateness of rank probabilities for presenting the results of economic evaluation in multiple technology appraisal pp. 801-807

David Epstein

Economic downturns and nurse attachment to federal employment pp. 808-814

Danyao Li, Michael R. Richards and Coady Wing

Volume 28, issue 5, 2019

How does birth weight affect health and human capital? A short‐ and long‐term evaluation pp. 597-617

Marie Baguet and Christelle Dumas

Does hospital competition improve efficiency? The effect of the patient choice reform in England pp. 618-640

Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Giuseppe Moscelli and Hugh Gravelle

Measuring patient trust: Comparing measures from a survey and an economic experiment pp. 641-652

Roxanne J. Kovacs, Mylene Lagarde and John Cairns

Frequentist and Bayesian meta‐regression of health state utilities for multiple myeloma incorporating systematic review and analysis of individual patient data pp. 653-665

Anthony J. Hatswell, Darren Burns, Gianluca Baio and Frances Wadelin

Health insurance and opioid deaths: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act young adult provision pp. 666-677

Gal Wettstein

What is the marginal benefit of payment‐induced family care? Impact on Medicaid spending and health of care recipients pp. 678-692

Norma Coe, Jing Guo, R. Tamara Konetzka and Courtney Van Houtven

Why prevent when it does not pay? Prevention when health services are credence goods pp. 693-709

Felix C.H. Gottschalk

Use of instrumental variables for endogenous treatment at the provider level pp. 710-716

R. Tamara Konetzka, Fan Yang and Rachel M. Werner

Testing the myth of fee‐for‐service and overprovision in health care pp. 717-722

Sibilla Di Guida, Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen and Anne Sophie Oxholm

Volume 28, issue 4, 2019

Heterogeneous effects of obesity on mental health: Evidence from Mexico pp. 447-460

Olivier Bargain and Jinan Zeidan

User fee exemption and maternal health care utilisation at mission health facilities in Malawi: An application of disequilibrium theory of demand and supply pp. 461-474

Gerald Manthalu

Government doctor absenteeism and its effects on consumer demand in rural north India pp. 475-491

Richard A. Iles

Entry regulation and the effect of public reporting: Evidence from Home Health Compare pp. 492-516

Bingxiao Wu, Jeah Jung, Hyunjee Kim and Daniel Polsky

The impact of integration on outpatient chemotherapy use and spending in Medicare pp. 517-528

Jeah Jung, Roger Feldman and Yamini Kalidindi

Unmet health care and health care utilization pp. 529-542

Hana Bataineh, Rose Anne Devlin and Vicky Barham

Can the unemployed be trained to care for the elderly? The effects of subsidized training in elderly care pp. 543-555

Christine Dauth and Julia Lang

Investing in antibiotics to alleviate future catastrophic outcomes: What is the value of having an effective antibiotic to mitigate pandemic influenza? pp. 556-571

Itamar Megiddo, Dusan Drabik, Tim Bedford, Alec Morton, Justus Wesseler and Ramanan Laxminarayan

For better or worse? Investigating the validity of best–worst discrete choice experiments in health pp. 572-586

Nicolas Krucien, Jonathan Sicsic and Mandy Ryan

The price elasticity of quantity, and of quality, for tobacco products pp. 587-593

John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim

Volume 28, issue 3, 2019

Dishonesty in health care practice: A behavioral experiment on upcoding in neonatology pp. 319-338

Heike Hennig‐Schmidt, Hendrik Jürges and Daniel Wiesen

The effect of cancer diagnosis on switching health insurance in medicare pp. 339-349

Brett Lissenden

Attribute level overlap (and color coding) can reduce task complexity, improve choice consistency, and decrease the dropout rate in discrete choice experiments pp. 350-363

Marcel F. Jonker, Bas Donkers, Esther de Bekker‐Grob and Elly A. Stolk

Can productivity growth measures identify best performing hospitals? Evidence from the English National Health Service pp. 364-372

María José Aragón Aragón, Adriana Castelli, Martin Chalkley and James Gaughan

Job sick leave: Detecting opportunistic behavior pp. 373-386

Carlo Alberto Biscardo, Alessandro Bucciol and Paolo Pertile

Prospective payment systems and discretionary coding—Evidence from English mental health providers pp. 387-402

Giuseppe Moscelli, Rowena Jacobs, Nils Gutacker, Maria Jose Aragón, Martin Chalkley, Anne Mason and Jan Böhnke

The effect of prescription drug insurance on health behavior: Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 403-418

Abraham Abebe Asfaw

The effects of e‐cigarette minimum legal sale age laws on youth substance use pp. 419-436

Dhaval Dave, Bo Feng and Michael Pesko

Economic conditions and sleep pp. 437-442

Paul Niekamp

Volume 28, issue 2, 2019

Excess influenza hospital admissions and costs due to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in England pp. 175-188

Krystal Lau, Katharina Hauck and Marisa Miraldo

Who benefits most in disease management programs: Improving target efficiency pp. 189-203

Timothy Simcoe, Maryaline Catillon and Paul Gertler

Early HIV treatment and labour outcomes: A case study of mining workers in South Africa pp. 204-218

Declan French, Jonathan Brink and Till Bärnighausen

Impacts of the ACA Medicaid expansion on health behaviors: Evidence from household panel data pp. 219-244

Chad Cotti, Erik Nesson and Nathan Tefft

Hospital responses to price shocks under the prospective payment system pp. 245-260

Eunhae Shin

The impact of financial incentives on health and health care: Evidence from a large wellness program pp. 261-279

Liran Einav, Stephanie Lee and Jonathan Levin

How robust are reference pricing studies on outpatient medical procedures? Three different preprocessing techniques applied to difference‐in differences pp. 280-298

Timothy Tyler Brown and Juan Pablo Atal

Interdependency in vaccination policies among Japanese municipalities pp. 299-310

Shun-ichiro Bessho and Yoko Ibuka

Regional prevalence of health worker absenteeism in Tanzania pp. 311-316

Tomoki Fujii

Volume 28, issue 1, 2019

How much does birth weight matter for child health in developing countries? Estimates from siblings and twins pp. 3-22

Mark McGovern

Monthly spending dynamics of the elderly following a health shock: Evidence from Singapore pp. 23-43

Terence Cheng, Jing Li and Rhema Vaithianathan

The effects of import competition on health in the local economy pp. 44-56

Matthew Lang, Thomas McManus and Georg Schaur

Limited self‐control and longevity pp. 57-64

Holger Strulik

The effect of weight on labor market outcomes: An application of genetic instrumental variables pp. 65-77

Petri Böckerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen and Olli Raitakari

Effects of state education requirements for substance use prevention pp. 78-86

Christopher S. Carpenter, Tim A. Bruckner, Thurston Domina, Julie Gerlinger and Sara Wakefield

A cost‐effectiveness threshold based on the marginal returns of cardiovascular hospital spending pp. 87-100

Pieter van Baal, Meg Perry‐Duxbury, Pieter Bakx, Matthijs Versteegh, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Werner Brouwer

Pharmaceutical expenditure and gross domestic product: Evidence of simultaneous effects using a two‐step instrumental variables strategy pp. 101-122

Mujaheed Shaikh and Afschin Gandjour

Does global drug innovation correspond to burden of disease? The neglected diseases in developed and developing countries pp. 123-143

Eliana Barrenho, Marisa Miraldo and Peter C. Smith

Estimating misreporting in condom use and its determinants among sex workers: Evidence from the list randomisation method pp. 144-160

Carole Treibich and Aurélia Lépine

The effect of personalised weight feedback on weight loss and health behaviours: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design pp. 161-172

William Cook