Health Economics

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Volume 25, issue S2, 2016

Consequences of the Economic Crisis on Health and Health Care Systems pp. 3-5

Pilar García‐Gómez, Sergi Jiménez‐Martín and Jose Labeaga

Health Effects of Economic Crises pp. 6-24

Christopher Ruhm

Careful in the Crisis? Determinants of Older People's Informal Care Receipt in Crisis‐Struck European Countries pp. 25-42

Joan Costa‐Font, Martin Karlsson and Henning Øien

Household Financial Distress and Initial Endowments: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis pp. 43-56

Arna Olafsson

Do Wealth Shocks Affect Health? New Evidence from the Housing Boom pp. 57-69

Eleonora Fichera and John Gathergood

The Lasting Health Impact of Leaving School in a Bad Economy: Britons in the 1970s Recession pp. 70-92

Clementine Garrouste and Mathilde Godard

BAD TIMES, SLIMMER CHILDREN? pp. 93-112

Cristina Bellés‐Obrero, Sergi Jiménez‐Martín and Judit Vall‐Castello

Health Effects of Short‐Term Fluctuations in Macroeconomic Conditions: The Case of Hypertension for Older Americans pp. 113-125

Marco Angrisani and Jinkook Lee

The Effect on Mental Health of Retiring During the Economic Crisis pp. 126-140

Michele Belloni, Elena Meschi and Giacomo Pasini

Health Disparities by Income in Spain Before and After the Economic Crisis pp. 141-158

Max Coveney, Pilar García‐Gómez, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti

Interactions between Private Health and Long‐term Care Insurance and the Effects of the Crisis: Evidence for Spain pp. 159-179

Sergi Jiménez‐Martín, Jose Labeaga and Cristina Vilaplana‐Prieto

Volume 25, issue S1, 2016

Foreword: Health Economic Evaluations in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries: Methodological Issues and Challenges for Priority Setting pp. 1-5

Catherine Pitt, Anna Vassall, Yot Teerawattananon, Ulla K. Griffiths, Lorna Guinness, Damian Walker, Nicola Foster and Kara Hanson

Editorial pp. 6-8

Andrew Briggs and Rachel Nugent

Economic Evaluation in Global Perspective: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Recent Literature pp. 9-28

Catherine Pitt, Catherine Goodman and Kara Hanson

Comparison of Economic Evaluation Methods Across Low‐income, Middle‐income and High‐income Countries: What are the Differences and Why? pp. 29-41

Ulla Kou Griffiths, Rosa Legood and Catherine Pitt

Methodological Issues to Consider When Collecting Data to Estimate Poverty Impact in Economic Evaluations in Low‐income and Middle‐income Countries pp. 42-52

Sedona Sweeney, Anna Vassall, Nicola Foster, Victoria Simms, Patrick Ilboudo, Godfather Kimaro, Don Mudzengi and Lorna Guinness

Using Top‐down and Bottom‐up Costing Approaches in LMICs: The Case for Using Both to Assess the Incremental Costs of New Technologies at Scale pp. 53-66

Lucy Cunnama, Edina Sinanovic, Lebogang Ramma, Nicola Foster, Leigh Berrie, Wendy Stevens, Sebaka Molapo, Puleng Marokane, Kerrigan McCarthy, Gavin Churchyard and Anna Vassall

What Determines HIV Prevention Costs at Scale? Evidence from the Avahan Programme in India pp. 67-82

Aurélia Lépine, Sudhashree Chandrashekar, Govindraj Shetty, Peter Vickerman, Janet Bradley, Michel Alary, Stephen Moses, India Group Charme and Anna Vassall

Outcomes in Economic Evaluations of Public Health Interventions in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: Health, Capabilities and Subjective Wellbeing pp. 83-94

Giulia Greco, Paula Lorgelly and Inthira Yamabhai

Incorporating Demand and Supply Constraints into Economic Evaluations in Low‐Income and Middle‐Income Countries pp. 95-115

Anna Vassall, Lindsay Mangham‐Jefferies, Gabriela B. Gomez, Catherine Pitt and Nicola Foster

Parameterising User Uptake in Economic Evaluations: The role of discrete choice experiments pp. 116-123

Fern Terris‐Prestholt, Matthew Quaife and Peter Vickerman

Dynamic Transmission Economic Evaluation of Infectious Disease Interventions in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review pp. 124-139

Tom L. Drake, Angela Devine, Shunmay Yeung, Nicholas P. J. Day, Lisa J. White and Yoel Lubell

Using Economic Evidence to Set Healthcare Priorities in Low‐Income and Lower‐Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Methodological Frameworks pp. 140-161

Virginia Wiseman, Craig Mitton, Mary M. Doyle‐Waters, Tom Drake, Lesong Conteh, Anthony T. Newall, Obinna Onwujekwe and Stephen Jan

Development of a Health Screening Package Under the Universal Health Coverage: The Role of Health Technology Assessment pp. 162-178

Yot Teerawattananon, Pritaporn Kingkaew, Tanunya Koopitakkajorn, Sitaporn Youngkong, Nattha Tritasavit, Patsri Srisuwan and Sripen Tantivess

HTA Implementation Roadmap in Central and Eastern European Countries pp. 179-192

Zoltán Kaló, Adrian Gheorghe, Mirjana Huic, Marcell Csanádi and Finn Boerlum Kristensen

Volume 25, issue 12, 2016

A View from the Bridge: Health Economic Evaluation — A Value‐Based Framework? pp. 1499-1502

Andrew Briggs

On a Family of Achievement and Shortfall Inequality Indices pp. 1503-1513

Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Examination of the Synthetic Control Method for Evaluating Health Policies with Multiple Treated Units pp. 1514-1528

Noemi Kreif, Richard Grieve, Dominik Hangartner, Alex James Turner, Silviya Nikolova and Matt Sutton

Measuring Health Spillovers for Economic Evaluation: A Case Study in Meningitis pp. 1529-1544

Hareth Al‐Janabi, Job van Exel, Werner Brouwer, Caroline Trotter, Linda Glennie, Laurie Hannigan and Joanna Coast

Promoting Handwashing Behavior: The Effects of Large‐scale Community and School‐level Interventions pp. 1545-1559

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Nicolas Ajzenman and Alexandra Orsola‐Vidal

To Vaccinate or to Procrastinate? That is the Prevention Question pp. 1560-1581

Robert Nuscheler and Kerstin Roeder

Supplemental Health Insurance and Healthcare Consumption—A Dynamic Approach to Moral Hazard pp. 1582-1598

Carine Franc, Marc Perronnin and Aurélie Pierre

Differential Effects of Declining Rates in a Per Diem Payment System pp. 1599-1618

Galina Besstremyannaya

Volume 25, issue 11, 2016

Time and Health Status in Health Economics pp. 1351-1354

John Mullahy

A Theory of Waiting Time Reporting and Quality Signaling pp. 1355-1371

Yijuan Chen, Juergen Meinecke and Peter Sivey

The Impact of an Increase in User Costs on the Demand for Emergency Services: The Case of Portuguese Hospitals pp. 1372-1388

Pedro Ramos and Alvaro Almeida

Health Insurance and Health Status: Exploring the Causal Effect from a Policy Intervention pp. 1389-1402

Jay Pan, Xiaoyan Lei and Gordon G. Liu

Price Elasticities of Food Demand: Compensated vs Uncompensated pp. 1403-1408

Kenneth Clements and Jiawei Si

Limited Self‐control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness pp. 1409-1424

Alois Stutzer and Armando Meier

Consistent Comparisons of Attainment and Shortfall Inequality: A Critical Examination pp. 1425-1432

Kristof Bosmans

The Impact of Physician Supply on the Healthcare System: Evidence from Japan's New Residency Program pp. 1433-1447

Toshiaki Iizuka and Yasutora Watanabe

Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well‐Being: Panel Evidence From Australia pp. 1448-1463

Stephane Mahuteau and Rong Zhu

Obesity and Smoking: can we Kill Two Birds with one Tax? pp. 1464-1482

Davide Dragone, Francesco Manaresi and Luca Savorelli

Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care? pp. 1483-1496

Stefan Boes and Michael Gerfin

Volume 25, issue 10, 2016

How Do Biomarkers and Genetics Contribute to Understanding Society? pp. 1219-1222

Michaela Benzeval, Meena Kumari and Andrew Jones

The Short‐Term Effect of Depressive Symptoms on Labor Market Outcomes pp. 1223-1238

Lizhong Peng, Chad Meyerhoefer and Samuel H. Zuvekas

Population Aging and Healthcare Expenditure in Korea pp. 1239-1251

Kyung‐Rae Hyun, Sungwook Kang and Sunmi Lee

Health Consequences of Rural‐to‐Urban Migration: Evidence from Panel Data in China pp. 1252-1267

Yang Song and Wenkai Sun

Identifying Demand Responses to Illegal Drug Supply Interdictions pp. 1268-1290

Scott Cunningham and Keith Finlay

The Medical Cost Attributable to Obesity and Overweight in China: Estimation Based on Longitudinal Surveys pp. 1291-1311

Xuezheng Qin and Jay Pan

Did the Millennium Development Goals Change Trends in Child Mortality? pp. 1312-1325

Declan French

Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and Its Application in Ontario pp. 1326-1340

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

Does Overweight and Obesity Impact on Self‐Rated Health? Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Ordered Probit Models pp. 1341-1348

John Cullinan and Paddy Gillespie

Volume 25, issue 9, 2016

Editors' Introduction pp. 1055-1055

Andrew Jones, Owen O'Donnell, Anthony Scott and Michael Shields

Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence? pp. 1056-1072

Govert Bijwaard and Hans Van Kippersluis

Does Health Insurance Encourage the Rise in Medical Prices? A Test on Balance Billing in France pp. 1073-1089

Brigitte Dormont and Mathilde Péron

Heterogeneity in the Effect of Common Shocks on Healthcare Expenditure Growth pp. 1090-1103

Katharina Hauck and Xiaohui Zhang

Folic acid advisories: a public health challenge? pp. 1104-1122

Daniel Herrera‐Araujo

Endogenous Technology Adoption and Medical Costs pp. 1123-1147

Karine Lamiraud and Stephane Lhuillery

Learning to Trust Flu Shots: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic pp. 1148-1162

Jürgen Maurer and Katherine Harris

Risk Selection under Public Health Insurance with Opt‐Out pp. 1163-1181

Sebastian Panthöfer

The Effect of Introducing a Minimum Price on the Distribution of Alcohol Purchase: A Counterfactual Analysis pp. 1182-1200

Anurag Sharma, Fabrice Etilé and Kompal Sinha

Attitudes to legalizing cannabis use pp. 1201-1216

Jenny Williams, Jan van Ours and Michael Grossman

Volume 25, issue 8, 2016

Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal pp. 933-938

Alec Morton, Amanda I. Adler, David Bell, Andrew Briggs, Werner Brouwer, Karl Claxton, Neil Craig, Alastair Fischer, Peter McGregor and Pieter van Baal

The Effects of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Offspring Smoking Behavior and Self‐Assessed Health pp. 939-954

Michael Darden and Donna Gilleskie

The Impact of Waiting Time on Health Gains from Surgery: Evidence from a National Patient‐reported Outcome Dataset pp. 955-968

Silviya Nikolova, Mark Harrison and Matt Sutton

Reduction of Working Time: Does It Lead to a Healthy Lifestyle? pp. 969-983

Taehyun Ahn

Does Commuting Affect Health? pp. 984-1004

Annemarie Künn‐Nelen

The Impact of Hospital Payment Schemes on Healthcare and Mortality: Evidence from Hospital Payment Reforms in OECD Countries pp. 1005-1019

Parida Wubulihasimu, Werner Brouwer and Pieter van Baal

Modelling Nonlinearities and Reference Dependence in General Practitioners' Income Preferences pp. 1020-1038

Jon Helgheim Holte, Peter Sivey, Birgit Abelsen and Jan Abel Olsen

Valuing Reductions in Fatal Illness Risks: Implications of Recent Research pp. 1039-1052

Lisa Robinson and James Hammitt

Volume 25, issue 7, 2016

How Business Cycles Affect the Healthcare Sector: A Cross‐country Investigation pp. 787-800

Kathleen Cleeren, Lien Lamey, Jan‐Hinrich Meyer and Ko De Ruyter

Determinants of Regional Variation in Health Expenditures in Germany pp. 801-815

Dirk Göpffarth, Thomas Kopetsch and Hendrik Schmitz

A Behavioral Economic Model of Alcohol Advertising and Price pp. 816-828

Henry Saffer, Dhaval Dave and Michael Grossman

Does Formal Employment Reduce Informal Caregiving? pp. 829-843

Daifeng He and Peter McHenry

Corrective Taxes and Cigarette Characteristics pp. 844-859

Paul Calcott and Vladimir Petkov

Income Elasticity of Vaccines Spending versus General Healthcare Spending pp. 860-872

Y. Natalia Alfonso, Guiru Ding and David Bishai

Medicare Managed Care Spillovers and Treatment Intensity pp. 873-887

Kevin Callison

Can Households Cope with Health Shocks in Vietnam? pp. 888-907

Sophie Mitra, Michael Palmer, Daniel Mont and Nora Groce

Breaking The Link Between Legal Access To Alcohol And Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence From New South Wales pp. 908-928

Jason Lindo, Peter Siminski and Oleg Yerokhin

Volume 25, issue 6, 2016

Symposium: Efforts to Extend Effective Coverage in Asia pp. 647-649

Owen O'Donnell and Andrew Jones

Effects of Price, Information, and Transactions Cost Interventions to Raise Voluntary Enrollment in a Social Health Insurance Scheme: A Randomized Experiment in the Philippines pp. 650-662

Joseph Capuno, Aleli D. Kraft, Stella Luz Quimbo, Carlos R. Tan and Adam Wagstaff

Encouraging Health Insurance for the Informal Sector: A Cluster Randomized Experiment in Vietnam pp. 663-674

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

Impact of Community‐based Health Insurance on Access and Financial Protection: Evidence from Three Randomized Control Trials in Rural India pp. 675-687

Wameq Raza, Ellen van de Poel, Arjun Bedi and Frans Rutten

Impact of Performance‐Based Financing in a Low‐Resource Setting: A Decade of Experience in Cambodia pp. 688-705

Ellen Van de Poel, Gabriela Flores, Por Ir and Owen O'Donnell

The Impact of a Pay‐for‐Performance Scheme on Prescription Quality in Rural China pp. 706-722

Xiaojie Sun, Xiaoyun Liu, Qiang Sun, Winnie Yip, Adam Wagstaff and Qingyue Meng

Conflicts of Interest in Medical Technology Markets: Evidence from Orthopedic Surgery pp. 723-739

Fabrice Smieliauskas

Reference Pricing with Endogenous or Exogenous Payment Limits: Impacts on Insurer and Consumer Spending pp. 740-749

Timothy T. Brown and James C. Robinson

Free Medicines Thanks to Retirement: Impact of Coinsurance Exemption on Pharmaceutical Expenditures and Hospitalization Offsets in a national health service pp. 750-767

Jaume Puig‐Junoy, Pilar García‐Gómez and David Casado‐Marín

Valuation of Child Health‐Related Quality of Life in the United States pp. 768-777

Benjamin M. Craig, Wolfgang Greiner, Derek S. Brown and Bryce B. Reeve

Who Gained Insurance Coverage in 2014, the First Year of Full ACA Implementation? pp. 778-784

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton and Aaron Yelowitz

Volume 25, issue 5, 2016

Addressing Missing Data in Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS): Implications for the Use of PROMS for Comparing Provider Performance pp. 515-528

Manuel Gomes, Nils Gutacker, Chris Bojke and Andrew Street

Copayments and Emergency Department Use Among Adult Medicaid Enrollees pp. 529-542

Lindsay M. Sabik and Sabina Ohri Gandhi

Lending to Parents and Insuring Children: Is There a Role for Microcredit in Complementing Health Insurance in Rural China? pp. 543-558

Jing You

Has the Swap Influenced Aid Flows in the Health Sector? pp. 559-577

Rohan Sweeney and Duncan Mortimer

Soft Budget Constraints in Public Hospitals pp. 578-590

Donald Wright

The Effect of Medicare Eligibility on Spousal Insurance Coverage pp. 591-605

Marcus Dillender and Karen Mulligan

Determinants of US Prescription Drug Utilization using County Level Data pp. 606-619

Thierry Nianogo, Albert Okunade, Demba Fofana and Weiwei Chen

How do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes? Evidence from Norway pp. 620-636

Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Luigi Siciliani and Matt Sutton

A Note on the Comparative Statics of Pay‐for‐Performance in Health Care pp. 637-644

Tisamarie B. Sherry

Volume 25, issue 4, 2016

The Impact of Near‐Universal Insurance Coverage on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Evidence from Massachusetts pp. 391-407

Lindsay M. Sabik and Cathy J. Bradley

Measuring Healthcare Providers' Performances Within Managed Competition Using Multidimensional Quality and Cost Indicators pp. 408-423

France R. M. Portrait, Onno van der Galiën and Bernard van den Berg

Cigarette Taxes and Older Adult Smoking: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study pp. 424-438

Johanna Maclean, Asia Sikora Kessler and Donald Kenkel

The Impact of Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices on Referral Patterns pp. 439-454

Caroline S. Carlin, Roger Feldman and Bryan Dowd

Access to Emergency Contraception and its Impact on Fertility and Sexual Behavior pp. 455-469

Karen Mulligan

Modern Management Practices and Hospital Admissions pp. 470-485

K. John McConnell, Richard Lindrooth, Douglas R. Wholey, Thomas M. Maddox and Nicholas Bloom

Nothing About Us Without Us? A Comparison of Adolescent and Adult Health‐State Values for the Child Health Utility‐9D Using Profile Case Best–Worst Scaling pp. 486-496

Julie Ratcliffe, Elisabeth Huynh, Katherine Stevens, John Brazier, Michael Sawyer and Terry Flynn

The Relationship Between Self‐Rated Health and Hospital Records pp. 497-512

Torben Nielsen

Volume 25, issue 3, 2016

The Welfare Cost of Homicides in Brazil: Accounting for Heterogeneity in the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Reductions pp. 259-276

Daniel Cerqueira and Rodrigo Soares

Welfare Reform and Children's Health pp. 277-291

Badi Baltagi and Yin‐Fang Yen

Crystal Clear? The Relationship Between Methamphetamine Use and Sexually Transmitted Infections pp. 292-313

Hugo M. Mialon, Erik Nesson and Michael C. Samuel

The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors? pp. 314-336

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis and Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer

Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking pp. 337-356

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Bayard Roberts, Marc Suhrcke and Martin McKee

Health Insurance, Health Savings Accounts and Healthcare Utilization pp. 357-371

Richard Peter, Sebastian Soika and Petra Steinorth

THE EFFECT OF STATE INSURANCE MANDATES ON INFANT IMMUNIZATION RATES pp. 372-386

Lenisa V. Chang

Machines that go ‘ping’: Medical Technology and Health Expenditures in OECD Countries pp. 387-388

Peter Willemé and Michel Dumont

Volume 25, issue 2, 2016

Does job insecurity deteriorate health? pp. 131-147

Eve Caroli and Mathilde Godard

This Ad is for You: Targeting and the Effect of Alcohol Advertising on Youth Drinking pp. 148-164

Eamon Molloy

Do Health Reforms to Improve Quality Have Long‐Term Effects? Results of a Follow‐Up on a Randomized Policy Experiment in the Philippines pp. 165-177

Stella Luz Quimbo, Natascha Wagner, Jhiedon Florentino, Orville Solon and John Peabody

Colorectal Cancer Screening and State Health Insurance Mandates pp. 178-191

Mary K. Hamman and Kandice A. Kapinos

Adverse and Advantageous Selection in the Medicare Supplemental Market: A Bayesian Analysis of Prescription drug Expenditure pp. 192-211

Qian Li and Pravin Trivedi

Response Patterns in Health State Valuation Using Endogenous Attribute Attendance and Latent Class Analysis pp. 212-224

Arne Hole, Richard Norman and Rosalie Viney

Income Transfers and Maternal Health: Evidence from a National Randomized Social Cash Transfer Program in Zambia pp. 225-236

Sudhanshu Handa, Amber Peterman, David Seidenfeld and Gelson Tembo

Future Costs, Fixed Healthcare Budgets, and the Decision Rules of Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis pp. 237-248

Pieter van Baal, David Meltzer and Werner Brouwer

Should Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis Include the Cost of Consumption Activities? AN Empirical Investigation pp. 249-256

Charles Christian Adarkwah, Amirhossein Sadoghi and Afschin Gandjour

Volume 25, issue 1, 2016

‘A Theory of the Allocation of Time’ Turns Fifty: Its Impact on the Field of Health Economics pp. 3-7

Michael Grossman

The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Loss: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation pp. 8-23

John Cawley, Davide Dragone and Stephanie von Hinke

Dealing With Missing Behavioral Endpoints in Health Promotion Research by Modeling Cognitive Parameters in Cost‐Effectiveness Analyses of Behavioral Interventions: A Validation Study pp. 24-39

Rilana Prenger, Marcel E. Pieterse, Louise M. A. Braakman‐Jansen, Talitha L. Feenstra, Eline S. Smit, Ciska Hoving, Hein de Vries, Jan‐Kees van Ommeren, Silvia M. A. A. Evers and Job van der Palen

Spillover Effects in Health Service Use: Evidence From Mental Health Care Using First‐Year College Housing Assignments pp. 40-55

Ezra Golberstein, Daniel Eisenberg and Marilyn F. Downs

Can Payers Use Prices to Improve Quality? Evidence from English Hospitals pp. 56-70

Thomas Allen, Eleonora Fichera and Matt Sutton

Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures? Empirical Evidence from Switzerland pp. 71-90

Boris Kaiser and Christian Schmid

Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health pp. 91-100

Cheuk Yin Ho

Will the Needs‐Based Planning of Health Human Resources Currently Undertaken in Several Countries Lead to Excess Supply and Inefficiency? pp. 101-110

Kisalaya Basu and Maxwell Pak

Decision Thresholds and Changes in Risk for Preventive Treatment pp. 111-124

Christophe Courbage and Beatrice Rey