Health Economics

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Volume 26, issue S3, 2017

Behavioural experiments in health: An introduction pp. 3-5

Matteo Galizzi and Daniel Wiesen

The effects of competition on medical service provision pp. 6-20

Jeannette Brosig‐Koch, Burkhard Hehenkamp and Johanna Kokot

Separation of prescription and treatment in health care markets: A laboratory experiment pp. 21-35

Ben Greiner, Le Zhang and Chengxiang Tang

Quality competition and hospital mergers—An experiment pp. 36-51

Johann Han, Nadja Kairies‐Schwarz and Markus Vomhof

Sorting into payment schemes and medical treatment: A laboratory experiment pp. 52-65

Jeannette Brosig‐Koch, Nadja Kairies‐Schwarz and Johanna Kokot

Behavioural consequences of vaccination recommendations: An experimental analysis pp. 66-75

Robert Böhm, Nicolas W. Meier, Lars Korn and Cornelia Betsch

Risk‐taking in vaccination, surgery, and gambling environments: Evidence from a framed laboratory experiment pp. 76-96

Simon Binder and Robert Nuscheler

Risk attitudes in medical decisions for others: An experimental approach pp. 97-113

Alejandro Arrieta, Ariadna García‐Prado, Paula González and José Luis Pinto‐Prades

Behavioral responses to surveys about nicotine dependence pp. 114-123

Glenn Harrison

Volume 26, issue S2, 2017

Special issue on health economics and policy: Guest editors' introduction pp. 3-4

Francesco Moscone, Luigi Siciliani and Giorgio Vittadini

Determinants of transient and persistent hospital efficiency: The case of Italy pp. 5-22

Roberto Colombi, Gianmaria Martini and Giorgio Vittadini

Do public hospitals respond to changes in DRG price regulation? The case of birth deliveries in the Italian NHS pp. 23-37

Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luigi Siciliani and Gilberto Turati

Do hospitals respond to rivals' quality and efficiency? A spatial panel econometric analysis pp. 38-62

Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle and Rita Santos

Spatial effects in hospital expenditures: A district level analysis pp. 63-77

Matteo Lippi Bruni and Irene Mammi

The life‐saving effect of hospital proximity pp. 78-91

Paola Bertoli and Veronica Grembi

The effect of waiting times on demand and supply for elective surgery: Evidence from Italy pp. 92-105

Andrea Riganti, Luigi Siciliani and Carlo Fiorio

Drug therapy adherence and health outcomes in the presence of physician and patient unobserved heterogeneity pp. 106-126

Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti and Domenico Depalo

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64? The health impact of caregiving to one's spouse pp. 127-138

P.L. de Zwart, P. Bakx and Eddy Van Doorslaer

The eldercare landscape: Evidence from California pp. 139-157

Daniel McMillen and Elizabeth Powers

What happens to the employment of disabled individuals when all financial disincentives to work are abolished? pp. 158-174

Judit Vall Castello

Volume 26, issue S1, 2017

Foreword pp. 3-4

Rosanna Tarricone, Aleksandra Torbica, Michael Drummond and Jonas Schreyögg

Challenges in the Assessment of Medical Devices: The MedtecHTA Project pp. 5-12

Rosanna Tarricone, Aleksandra Torbica and Michael Drummond

Linking the Regulatory and Reimbursement Processes for Medical Devices: The Need for Integrated Assessments pp. 13-29

Oriana Ciani, Britni Wilcher, Anoukh van Giessen and Rod S. Taylor

Investigating Regional Variation of Cardiac Implantable Electrical Device Implant Rates in European Healthcare Systems: What Drives Differences? pp. 30-45

Aleksandra Torbica, Helen Banks, Cinzia Valzania, Giuseppe Boriani and Giovanni Fattore

A bias‐adjusted evidence synthesis of RCT and observational data: the case of total hip replacement pp. 46-69

Petra Schnell‐Inderst, Cynthia P. Iglesias, Arvandi Marjan, Ciani Oriana, Raffaella Matteucci Gothe, Jaime Peters, Ashley W. Blom, Rod S. Taylor and Uwe Siebert

Improving the Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Medical Devices pp. 70-92

Rosanna Tarricone, Giuditta Callea, Marko Ogorevc and Valentina Prevolnik Rupel

The Role of Learning in Health Technology Assessments: An Empirical Assessment of Endovascular Aneurysm Repairs in German Hospitals pp. 93-108

Yauheniya Varabyova, Carl Blankart and Jonas Schreyögg

Characterising Uncertainty in the Assessment of Medical Devices and Determining Future Research Needs pp. 109-123

Claire Rothery, Karl Claxton, Stephen Palmer, David Epstein, Rosanna Tarricone and Mark Sculpher

Adoption Decisions for Medical Devices in the Field of Cardiology: Results from a European Survey pp. 124-144

Maximilian H. M. Hatz, Jonas Schreyögg, Aleksandra Torbica, Giuseppe Boriani and Carl R. B. Blankart

Key Recommendations from the MedtecHTA Project pp. 145-152

Rosanna Tarricone, Aleksandra Torbica, Michael Drummond and for the MedtecHTA Project Group

Volume 26, issue 12, 2017

Is Best–Worst Scaling Suitable for Health State Valuation? A Comparison with Discrete Choice Experiments pp. e1-e16

Nicolas Krucien, Verity Watson and Mandy Ryan

The Impact of the Eligibility Threshold of a French Means‐Tested Health Insurance Programme on Doctor Visits: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis pp. e17-e34

Sophie Guthmuller and Jérôme Wittwer

The Impact of Regression to the Mean on Economic Evaluation in Quasi‐Experimental Pre–Post Studies: The Example of Total Knee Replacement Using Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative pp. e35-e51

Chris Schilling, Dennis Petrie, Michelle M. Dowsey, Peter F. Choong and Philip Clarke

Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After‐hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model pp. e52-e66

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li and Anthony Scott

The Effects of Exercise and Relaxation on Health and Wellbeing pp. e67-e80

Hannah Forbes, Eleonora Fichera, Anne Rogers and Matt Sutton

Do Capitation‐based Reimbursement Systems Underfund Tertiary Healthcare Providers? Evidence from New Zealand pp. e81-e102

Somi Shin, Christoph Schumacher and Eberhard Feess

Re‐Thinking ‘The Different Perspectives That can be Used When Eliciting Preferences in Health’ pp. e103-e107

Aki Tsuchiya and Verity Watson

An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health using Latent Variable Models pp. e108-e125

Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder

Cancelled Procedures in the English NHS: Evidence from the 2010 Tariff Reform pp. e126-e139

Graham Cookson, Simon Jones and Ioannis Laliotis

A Dynamic Estimation of Obesity Using Nhanes Data: A Pseudo‐Panel Approach pp. e140-e159

Michelle Saksena and Norman Maldonado

Constraints on Formulary Design Under the Affordable Care Act pp. e160-e178

Martin Andersen

Progressive universalism? The impact of targeted coverage on health care access and expenditures in Peru pp. e179-e203

Sven Neelsen and Owen O'Donnell

The causal effect of retirement on mortality: Evidence from targeted incentives to retire early pp. e204-e218

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

Population health and the economy: Mortality and the Great Recession in Europe pp. e219-e235

José Tapia Granados and Edward L. Ionides

The impact of maternal employment on children's adiposity: Evidence from China's labor policy reform pp. e236-e255

Young Jo and Qing Wang

The impact of the Affordable Care Act on self‐employment pp. e256-e273

Bradley Heim and Lang Kate Yang

The effect of health care expenditure on patient outcomes: Evidence from English neonatal care pp. e274-e284

Samuel Watson, Wiji Arulampalam, Stavros Petrou and On Behalf Of Nescop

Individual survival curves comparing subjective and observed mortality risks pp. e285-e303

Luc Bissonnette, Michael Hurd and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Improving scope sensitivity in contingent valuation: Joint and separate evaluation of health states pp. e304-e318

José Luis Pinto‐Prades, José Antonio Robles‐Zurita, Fernando‐Ignacio Sánchez‐Martínez, José María Abellán‐Perpiñán and Jorge Martínez‐Pérez

Incentives to patients versus incentives to health care providers: The users' perspective pp. e319-e331

Izabela Jelovac and Philippe Polome

Estimating lifetime medical costs from censored claims data pp. e332-e344

Jing‐Shiang Hwang, Tsuey‐Hwa Hu, Lukas Jyuhn‐Hsiarn Lee and Jung‐ Der Wang

Market for Artemether‐Lumefantrine to treat childhood malaria in a district of southern Mozambique pp. e345-e360

Sergi Alonso, Khátia Munguambe and Elisa Sicuri

The Ambiguous Effect of GP Competition: The Case of Hospital Admissions pp. 1483-1504

M. Kamrul Islam and Egil Kjerstad

The Effect of Widowhood on Mental Health ‐ an Analysis of Anticipation Patterns Surrounding the Death of a Spouse pp. 1505-1523

Bettina Siflinger

Transforming Latent Utilities to Health Utilities: East Does Not Meet West pp. 1524-1533

Feng Xie, Eleanor Pullenayegum, A. Simon Pickard, Juan Manuel Ramos Goñi, Min‐woo Jo and Ataru Igarashi

Are Health State Valuations from the General Public Biased? A Test of Health State Reference Dependency Using Self‐assessed Health and an Efficient Discrete Choice Experiment pp. 1534-1547

Marcel F. Jonker, Arthur Attema, Bas Donkers, Elly A. Stolk and Matthijs M. Versteegh

Hospital Policy and Productivity – Evidence from German States pp. 1548-1565

Alexander Karmann and Felix Roesel

Average‐Cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector pp. 1566-1582

Mathias Kifmann and Luigi Siciliani

Getting a Sporting Chance: Title IX and the Intergenerational Transmission of Health pp. 1583-1600

Lisa Schulkind

Health Insurance Costs and Employee Compensation: Evidence from the National Compensation Survey pp. 1601-1616

Priyanka Anand

The Mental Health of Children Providing Care to their Elderly Parent pp. 1617-1629

Dörte Heger

Changing Relationship between Unemployment and Mortality in South Korea pp. 1630-1636

Chulhee Lee and Kyeongbae Kim

Market Competition and the Health Composition of Manufactured Food pp. 1637-1643

Stephen Hamilton and Vincent Réquillart

Pure, White and Deadly… Expensive: A Bitter Sweetness in Health Care Expenditure pp. 1644-1666

Vitor Castro

Do Targeted Reproductive Health Services Matter? – The Impact of a Midwife Program in Indonesia pp. 1667-1681

Christoph Strupat

The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Absence from Work pp. 1682-1695

Fabián Duarte, Srikanth Kadiyala, Samuel H. Masters and David Powell

The Impact of Unanticipated Economic Shocks on the Demand for Contraceptives: Evidence from Uganda pp. 1696-1709

Olukorede Abiona

Love Conquers all but Nicotine: Spousal Peer Effects on the Decision to Quit Smoking pp. 1710-1727

Ali Palali and Jan van Ours

Practice variation in the Dutch long‐term care and the role of supply‐sensitive care: Is access to the Dutch long‐term care equitable? pp. 1728-1742

Daisy Duell, Xander Koolman and France Portrait

The impact of adverse health events on consumption: Understanding the mediating effect of income transfers, wealth, and health insurance pp. 1743-1758

Patryk Babiarz and Tansel Yilmazer

Market environment and Medicaid acceptance: What influences the access gap? pp. 1759-1766

Amelia Bond, William Pajerowski, Daniel Polsky and Michael R. Richards

Parental health and children's cognitive and noncognitive development: New evidence from the longitudinal survey of Australian children pp. 1767-1788

Huong Thu Le and Ha Nguyen

The impact of provider consolidation on physician prices pp. 1789-1806

Caroline S. Carlin, Roger Feldman and Bryan Dowd

Unobserved health care expenditures: How important is censoring in register data? pp. 1807-1812

Christian Schmid

How excluding some benefits from value assessment of new drugs impacts innovation pp. 1813-1825

Joseph P. Cook and Joseph Golec

Adaptation to health states: Sick yet better off? pp. 1826-1843

Patricia Cubí‐Mollá, Mireia Jofre‐Bonet and Victoria Serra‐Sastre

Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health: Nonparametric evidence from four countries pp. 1844-1861

Kamila Cygan‐Rehm, Daniel Kuehnle and Michael Oberfichtner

Valuing productivity costs using the friction‐cost approach: Estimating friction‐period estimates by occupational classifications for the UK pp. 1862-1868

Jesse Kigozi, Sue Jowett, Martyn Lewis, Pelham Barton and Joanna Coast

Volume 26, issue 11, 2017

Gene–Environment Interaction in the Intergenerational Transmission of Asthma pp. 1337-1352

Owen Thompson

Concentrating Emergency Rooms: Penny‐Wise and Pound‐Foolish? An Empirical Research on Scale Economies and Chain Economies in Emergency Rooms in Dutch Hospitals pp. 1353-1365

Jos Blank, Bart L. van Hulst and Vivian Valdmanis

What Does Attending Early Childhood Program Mean for Child Health in India? pp. 1366-1379

Dipanwita Sarkar and Jayanta Sarkar

Does the Timing of Food Stamp Distribution Matter? A Panel‐Data Analysis of Monthly Purchasing Patterns of US Households pp. 1380-1393

Elena Castellari, Chad Cotti, John Gordanier and Orgul Ozturk

Promotion and Persistence of HIV Testing and HIV/AIDS Knowledge: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Ethiopia pp. 1394-1411

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Beliyou Haile and Taewha Lee

Public Healthcare Entitlements and Healthcare Utilisation among the Older Population in Ireland pp. 1412-1428

Yuanyuan Ma and Anne Nolan

Price Changes in Regulated Healthcare Markets: Do Public Hospitals Respond and How? pp. 1429-1446

Rossella Verzulli, Gianluca Fiorentini, Matteo Lippi Bruni and Cristina Ugolini

The Role of Medical Expenditure Risk in Portfolio Allocation Decisions pp. 1447-1458

Padmaja Ayyagari and Daifeng He

Evaluating Matching‐Adjusted Indirect Comparisons in Practice: A Case Study of Patients with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder pp. 1459-1466

Jason Shafrin, Anshu Shrestha, Amitabh Chandra, M. Haim Erder and Vanja Sikirica

External Validity of Contingent Valuation: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Payments pp. 1467-1473

Mandy Ryan, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Suthi Jareinpituk and John Cairns

Goods–Time Elasticity of Substitution in Health Production pp. 1474-1478

Juan Du and Takeshi Yagihashi

Volume 26, issue 10, 2017

Doctor Competence and the Demand for Healthcare: Evidence from Rural China pp. 1177-1190

Eduardo Fe, Timothy Powell‐Jackson and Winnie Yip

Calorie Labeling in Chain Restaurants and Body Weight: Evidence from New York pp. 1191-1209

Brandon Restrepo

Long‐term Effects of Managed Care pp. 1210-1223

Lukas Kauer

A Stated Preference Approach to Assess whether Health Status Impacts on Marginal Utility of Consumption pp. 1224-1233

Dorte Gyrd‐Hansen

Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care pp. 1234-1248

Helmut Farbmacher, Peter Ihle, Ingrid Schubert, Joachim Winter and Amelie Wuppermann

Behind‐the‐Counter, but Over‐the‐Border? The Assessment of the Geographical Spillover Effects of Emergency Contraception on Abortions pp. 1249-1263

Inna Cintina

The Long‐term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959–1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine pp. 1264-1277

Seonghoon Kim, Belton Fleisher and Jessica Ya Sun

Does Competition Have an Effect on Price and Quality in Physiotherapy? pp. 1278-1290

Piia Pekola, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hennamari Mikkola

High School Physical Education Requirements and Youth Body Weight: New Evidence from the YRBS pp. 1291-1306

Joseph J. Sabia, Thanh Tam Nguyen and Oren Rosenberg

Financial Incentives, Targeting, and Utilization of Child Health Services: Experimental Evidence from Zambia pp. 1307-1321

Günther Fink and Peter C. Rockers

The Effect of Medical Marijuana on Sickness Absence pp. 1322-1327

Darin F. Ullman

Eliciting the Level of Health Inequality Aversion in England pp. 1328-1334

Matthew Robson, Miqdad Asaria, Richard Cookson, Aki Tsuchiya and Shehzad Ali

Volume 26, issue 9, 2017

In remembrance of James F. Burgess, Jr pp. 1091-1091

W. David Bradford and On Behalf Of The Editors

Editors' introduction pp. 1092-1092

Andrew Jones, Edward Norton, Owen O'Donnell and Anthony Scott

International Health Economics Association: Student prize competition pp. 1093-1093

Bruce Hollingsworth

Does my high blood pressure improve your survival? Overall and subgroup learning curves in health pp. 1094-1109

Raf Van Gestel, Tobias Müller and Johan Bosmans

An econometric method for estimating population parameters from non‐random samples: An application to clinical case finding pp. 1110-1122

Rulof Burger and Zoë McLaren

Ordinal response generalized difference in differences with varying categories: The health effect of a disability program in Korea pp. 1123-1131

Young‐sook Kim and Myoung-jae Lee

Robust rankings of socioeconomic health inequality using a categorical variable pp. 1132-1145

Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

Globalisation and national trends in nutrition and health: A grouped fixed‐effects approach to intercountry heterogeneity pp. 1146-1161

Lisa Oberlander, Anne‐Célia Disdier and Fabrice Etilé

Pay less, consume more? The price elasticity of home care for the disabled elderly in France pp. 1162-1174

Quitterie Roquebert and Marianne Tenand

Volume 26, issue 8, 2017

Health and Brexit pp. 959-961

John Wildman, Rachel Baker and Cam Donaldson

The Rise and Fall in Out‐of‐Pocket Costs in Australia: An Analysis of the Strengthening Medicare Reforms pp. 962-979

Chun Yee Wong, Jessica Greene, Xenia Dolja‐Gore and Kees van Gool

The Influence of School Nutrition Programs on the Weight of Low‐Income Children: A Treatment Effect Analysis pp. 980-1000

Kristen Capogrossi and Wen You

The Effects of Prenatal Care Utilization on Maternal Health and Health Behaviors pp. 1001-1018

Ji Yan

Cigarette Taxes, Smoking—and Exercise? pp. 1019-1036

Karen Smith Conway and David P. Niles

Does It Pay to Penalize Hospitals for Excess Readmissions? Intended and Unintended Consequences of Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reductions Program pp. 1037-1051

Jennifer Mellor, Michael Daly and Molly Smith

Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Obesity: Looking Beyond the Obesity Threshold pp. 1052-1066

Marcel Bilger, Eliza J. Kruger and Eric A. Finkelstein

U.S. Demand for Tobacco Products in a System Framework pp. 1067-1086

Yuqing Zheng, Chen Zhen, Daniel Dench and James M. Nonnemaker

Volume 26, issue 7, 2017

Symposium Introduction: Papers on ‘Modeling National Health Expenditures’ pp. 827-833

Thomas E. Getzen and Albert Okunade

The Role of Policy and Institutions on Health Spending pp. 834-843

Christine de la Maisonneuve, Rodrigo Moreno‐Serra, Fabrice Murtin and Joaquim Oliveira Martins

Evolving Health Expenditure Landscape of the BRICS Nations and Projections to 2025 pp. 844-852

Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic, Elena Potapchik, Larisa Popovich, Debasis Barik and Thomas E. Getzen

Income and Technology as Drivers of Australian Healthcare Expenditures pp. 853-862

Xiaohui You and Albert Okunade

Health Care Expenditure and Income: A Global Perspective pp. 863-874

Badi Baltagi, Raffaele Lagravinese, Francesco Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders, Body Weight, and Disordered‐Eating Behaviors pp. 875-891

Susan Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi and Yang Wang

Resistance Elasticity of Antibiotic Demand in Intensive Care pp. 892-909

Thomas Heister, Christian Hagist and Klaus Kaier

The Short‐Run and Long‐Run Effects of Birth Weight: Evidence from Large Samples of Siblings and Twins in Taiwan pp. 910-921

Zong‐Xian Xie, Shin‐Yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu

Long‐Term Effects of Famine on Chronic Diseases: Evidence from China's Great Leap Forward Famine pp. 922-936

Xue Feng Hu, Gordon G. Liu and Maoyong Fan

The Income–Health Relationship ‘Beyond the Mean’: New Evidence from Biomarkers pp. 937-956

Vincenzo Carrieri and Andrew Jones

Volume 26, issue 6, 2017

Redistribution and redesign in health care: An ebbing tide in England versus growing concerns in the United States pp. 687-690

Alan Maynard, Stuart H. Altman and Sally C. Stearns

An Econometric Model of Healthcare Demand With Nonlinear Pricing pp. 691-702

Johannes Kunz and Rainer Winkelmann

Inducing optimal substitution between antibiotics under open access to the resource of antibiotic susceptibility pp. 703-723

Markus Herrmann and Bruno Nkuiya

Using Quantile and Asymmetric Least Squares Regression for Optimal Risk Adjustment pp. 724-742

Normann Lorenz

Preferences for ‘New’ Treatments Diminish in the Face of Ambiguity pp. 743-752

Mark Harrison, Carlo A. Marra and Nick Bansback

Myopic and Forward Looking Behavior in Branded Oral Anti‐Diabetic Medication Consumption: An Example from Medicare Part D pp. 753-764

Naomi C. Sacks, James F. Burgess, Howard J. Cabral and Steven Pizer

Language Barriers and Immigrant Health pp. 765-778

Andrew Clarke and Ingo Isphording

Can Physicians Affect Patient Adherence With Medication? pp. 779-794

Sergei Koulayev, Emilia Simeonova and Niels Skipper

Healthcare Coinsurance Elasticity Coefficient Estimation Using Monthly Cross‐sectional, Time‐series Claims Data pp. 795-801

John F. Scoggins and Daniel A. Weinberg

Temporal Stability of Stated Preferences: The Case of Junior Nursing Jobs pp. 802-809

Denise Doiron and Hong Il Yoo

Discrete Choice Experiment Response Rates: A Meta‐analysis pp. 810-817

Verity Watson, Frauke Becker and Esther de Bekker‐Grob

Will the Need‐Based Planning of Health Human Resources Currently Undertaken in Several Countries Lead to Excess Supply and Inefficiency? A Comment on Basu and Pak pp. 818-821

Stephen Birch, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Adrian MacKenzie, William Whittaker and Thomas Mason

Will the Needs‐Based Planning of Health Human Resources Currently Undertaken in Several Countries Lead to Excess Supply and Inefficiency? Rejoinder pp. 822-824

Kisalaya Basu and Maxwell Pak

Volume 26, issue 5, 2017

Productivity Growth in the English National Health Service from 1998/1999 to 2013/2014 pp. 547-565

Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Katja Grašič and Andrew Street

Explaining Differentials in Subsidy Levels Among Hospital Ownership Types in Germany pp. 566-581

Adam Pilny

Analysis of Health Care Costs in Elderly Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions Using a Finite Mixture of Generalized Linear Models pp. 582-599

Matthias Eckardt, Christian Brettschneider, Hendrik van den Bussche, Hans‐Helmut König and MultiCare Study Group

Upcoding in a National Health Service: the evidence from Portugal pp. 600-618

Pedro Barros and Gisele Braun

Quality Health Care and Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance Retention: A Randomized Experiment in Kolkata Slums pp. 619-638

Clara Delavallade

Introduction of a National Minimum Wage Reduced Depressive Symptoms in Low‐Wage Workers: A Quasi‐Natural Experiment in the UK pp. 639-655

Aaron Reeves, Martin McKee, Johan Mackenbach, Margaret Whitehead and David Stuckler

Sex Work Regulation and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Tijuana, Mexico pp. 656-670

Troy Quast and Fidel Gonzalez

The Long‐Term Effects of Cancer on Employment and Earnings pp. 671-684

Sung-Hee Jeon

Volume 26, issue 4, 2017

The Effects of State‐Mandated Abstinence‐Based Sex Education on Teen Health Outcomes pp. 403-420

Jillian Carr and Analisa Packham

Effects of Public Hospital Reform on Inpatient Expenditures in Rural China pp. 421-430

Yuting Zhang, Qianheng Ma, Yingchun Chen and Hongxia Gao

Health Insurance and Health Care among the Mid‐Aged and Older Chinese: Evidence from the National Baseline Survey of CHARLS pp. 431-449

Chuanchuan Zhang, Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao

Effects of Physician‐directed Pharmaceutical Promotion on Prescription Behaviors: Longitudinal Evidence pp. 450-468

Anusua Datta and Dhaval Dave

Risking Life and Limb: Estimating a Measure of Medical Care Economic Risk and Considering its Implications pp. 469-485

Joelle Abramowitz, Brett O'Hara and Darcy Steeg Morris

Implications of Misclassification Errors in Empirical Studies of Adolescent Smoking Behaviours pp. 486-499

Ijeoma P. Edoka

Incentivizing Organ Donor Registrations with Organ Allocation Priority pp. 500-510

Avraham Stoler, Judd B. Kessler, Tamar Ashkenazi, Alvin Roth and Jacob Lavee

The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation pp. 511-518

Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella

The Relationship between Periodontal Interventions and Healthcare Costs and Utilization. Evidence from an Integrated Dental, Medical, and Pharmacy Commercial Claims Database pp. 519-527

Kamyar Nasseh, Marko Vujicic and Michael Glick

Bleeding Hearts, Profiteers, or Both: Specialist Physician Fees in an Unregulated Market pp. 528-535

Meliyanni Johar, Chunzhou Mu, Kees Van Gool and Chun Yee Wong

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Emergency Department Visits pp. 536-544

Padmaja Ayyagari, Dan M. Shane and George L. Wehby

Volume 26, issue 3, 2017

Alcohol Consumption and Long‐Term Labor Market Outcomes pp. 275-291

Petri Böckerman, Ari Hyytinen and Terhi Maczulskij

How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?—Evidence from China's Academician Election pp. 292-304

Gordon G. Liu, Ohyun Kwon, Xindong Xue and Belton Fleisher

Smoking Response to Health and Medical Spending Changes and the Role of Insurance pp. 305-320

Joachim Marti and Michael R. Richards

The Effects of Smoking Bans on Self‐Assessed Health: Evidence from Germany pp. 321-337

Daniel Kuehnle and Christoph Wunder

Anticipatory Behavior in Response to Medicare Part D's Coverage Gap pp. 338-351

Cameron Kaplan and Yuting Zhang

Saving Newborn Babies – The Benefits of Interventions in Neonatal Care in Norway over More Than 40 Years pp. 352-370

Jostein Grytten, Lars Monkerud, Irene Skau, Anne Eskild, Rune J. Sørensen and Ola Didrik Saugstad

Allocation of Residency Training Positions in Spain: Contextual Effects on Specialty Preferences pp. 371-386

Jeffrey E. Harris, Beatriz G. Lopez‐Valcarcel, Patricia Barber and Vicente Ortun

Response‐Scale Heterogeneity in the EQ‐5D pp. 387-394

Rachel J. Knott, Nicole Black, Bruce Hollingsworth and Paula Lorgelly

Comment on ‘Response –scale heterogeneity in the EQ‐5D: Can we use vignettes to address response‐scale heterogeneity in the EQ‐5D? Not if but how’ pp. 395-397

Silvana Robone

Response to comment by robone: Practical advice for the implementation of anchoring vignettes pp. 398-400

Rachel J. Knott, Nicole Black, Bruce Hollingsworth and Paula Lorgelly

Volume 26, issue 2, 2017

Financial Penalties for Performance in Health Care pp. 143-148

Søren Kristensen

The Impacts of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Healthcare Expenditures and Health Outcomes pp. 149-163

Feng Huang and Li Gan

The Time‐Varying Relationship between Mortality and Business Cycles in the USA pp. 164-183

Jean‐Paul Lam and Emmanuelle Piérard

Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple Clinical Indicators pp. 184-205

Souvik Banerjee, Pinka Chatterji and Kajal Lahiri

Heterogeneity in Smokers' Responses to Tobacco Control Policies pp. 206-225

Erik Nesson

The Effects of Workplace Clean Indoor Air Law Coverage on Workers' Smoking‐Related Outcomes pp. 226-242

Kai‐Wen Cheng, Feng Liu, MariaElena Gonzalez and Stanton Glantz

The Effects of Introducing Mixed Payment Systems for Physicians: Experimental Evidence pp. 243-262

Jeannette Brosig‐Koch, Heike Hennig‐Schmidt, Nadja Kairies‐Schwarz and Daniel Wiesen

Getting Incentives Right? The Impact of Hospital Capitation Payment in Vietnam pp. 263-272

Ha Thi Hong Nguyen, Sarah Bales, Adam Wagstaff and Huyen Dao

Volume 26, issue 1, 2017

Twenty‐Five Years of Health Economics: A Tribute to Alan Maynard and Acknowledgement of the Work of the Editorial Board pp. 3-5

Andrew Briggs, John Hutton, Andrew Jones, John Mullahy, Frances Sharp and Sally Stearns

The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Body Weight pp. 6-34

Joseph J. Sabia, Jeffrey Swigert and Timothy Young

Oral Health, Dental Insurance and Dental Service use in Australia pp. 35-53

Preety Pratima Srivastava, Gang Chen and Anthony Harris

Consideration Sets and Their Role in Modelling Doctor Recommendations About Contraceptives pp. 54-73

Denzil Fiebig, Rosalie Viney, Stephanie Knox, Marion Haas, Deborah J. Street, Arne Hole, Edith Weisberg and Deborah Bateson

Regression Trees Identify Relevant Interactions: Can This Improve the Predictive Performance of Risk Adjustment? pp. 74-85

Florian Buchner, Juergen Wasem and Sonja Schillo

Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily‐Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth? pp. 86-103

Robert Scholte, Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Dorly J.H. Deeg

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