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Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes , pp 123-140

L. Warshawsky-Livne, L. Novack, A. B. Rosen, S. M. Downs, J. Shkolnik-Inbar and J. S. Pliskin

How do Initial Signals of Quality Influence the Diffusion of New Medical Products? The Case of New Cancer Drug Treatments , pp 123-148

Rena Conti, Arielle Bernstein and David O. Meltzer

Medicare Part D turns four: Trends in plan design, enrollment, and the impact of the program on beneficiaries , pp 123-147

Jack Hoadley and Kosali Simon

On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties , pp 125-159

Frans van Winden, Mirre Stallen and K. Richard Ridderinkhof

Advances in Bariatric Surgery for Obesity: Laparoscopic Surgery , pp 131-148

William E. Encinosa, Didem M. Bernard and Claudia A. Steiner

Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania , pp 133-156

Josephine Borghi, John Ataguba, Gemini Mtei, James Akazili, Filip Meheus, Clas Rehnberg and Di McIntyre

Chapter 8 Competition and Market Concentration , pp 139-156

Nazmi Sari

Mutual Altruism: Evidence from Alzheimer Patients and Their Spouse Caregivers , pp 141-160

Markus König, Christian Pfarr and Peter Zweifel

Behavioral Welfare Economics and FDA Tobacco Regulations , pp 143-179

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel, Feng Liu and Hua Wang

Choice, Social Interaction and Addiction: The Social Roots of Addictive Preferences , pp 145-171

Ole-Jørgen Skog

The psychology of nutrition messages , pp 145-172

Heather Schofield and Sendhil Mullainathan

One Pill Makes you Smaller: The Demand for Anti-Obesity Drugs , pp 149-183

John Cawley and John A. Rizzo

Technology Diffusion and Substitution of Medical Innovations , pp 149-175

Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire

Does prescription drug adherence reduce hospitalizations and costs? The case of diabetes , pp 151-173

William E. Encinosa, Didem Bernard and Avi Dor

Chapter 9 Efficiency and Productivity Changes in Large Urban Hospitals 1994–2002: Ownership, Markets, and the Uninsured , pp 157-176

Gary D. Ferrier and Vivian G. Valdmanis

The role of risk equalization in moving from voluntary private health insurance to mandatory coverage: the experience in South Africa , pp 159-196

Heather McLeod and Pieter Grobler

Emotion expression, decision-making and well-being , pp 161-178

Erte Xiao

How Should the Health Benefits of Food Safety Programs Be Measured? , pp 161-202

V. Smith, Carol Mansfield and Aaron Strong

The Spread of Drug Use: Epidemic Models or Social Interaction? , pp 173-199

Hans O. Melberg

Evaluation criteria for report cards of healthcare providers , pp 173-189

Jesse D. Schold

cost sharing, benefit design, and adherence: The case of multiple sclerosis , pp 175-193

Avi Dor, Maureen J. Lage, Marcy L. Tarrants and Jane Castelli-Haley

Health Insurance and Hospital Technology Adoption , pp 177-198

Seth Freedman

Source preference and ambiguity aversion: models and evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging experiments , pp 179-201

Soo Hong Chew, King King Li, Robin Chark and Songfa Zhong

Chapter 10 Benchmarking Finnish Hospitals , pp 179-190

Miika Linna and Unto Häkkinen

Educational Heterogeneity in the Association between Smoking Cessation and Health Information , pp 183-206

Dean R. Lillard

Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe , pp 187-217

Jaume Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque

Evaluating the value of genomic diagnostics: Implications for clinical practice and public policy , pp 191-206

Amalia M. Issa

Chapter 11 Efficiency in Government-Funded Health Care Services: The Use of Non-Health Sector Mechanisms to Encourage Efficiency , pp 191-208

Abby L. Bloom

Generic utilization and cost-sharing for prescription drugs , pp 195-219

Teresa Bernard Gibson, Catherine G. McLaughlin and Dean G. Smith

Purchasing health care in China: Experiences, Opportunities and challenges , pp 197-218

Winnie Yip and Kara Hanson

Structural Estimation of Peer Effects in Youth Smoking , pp 201-211

Brian Krauth

Neuroeconomics of decision-making in the aging brain: the example of long-term care , pp 203-225

Ming Hsu, Hung-Tai Lin and Paul McNamara

Pesticides and Health: A Review of Evidence on Health Effects, Valuation of Risks, and Benefit-Cost Analysis , pp 203-295

Damian Tago, Henrik Andersson and Nicolas Treich

The Effect of Education on Health Behavior after Screening for Colorectal Cancer , pp 207-242

Eline Aas, Tor Iversen and Geir Hoff

Chapter 12 Evaluating Health Care Efficiency , pp 209-228

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Mats Lundström and Pontus Roos

Trends in Wine Consumption in Norway: Is Diffusion Theory Applicable? , pp 215-228

Ingeborg Rossow

Obesity and Occupational Attainment among the 50+ of Europe , pp 219-251

Petter Lundborg, Kristian Bolin, Sören Höjgård and Björn Lindgren

The impact of Nepal's national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in the district of Makwanpur , pp 221-249

T. Powell-Jackson, B.D. Neupane, S. Tiwari, K. Tumbahangphe, D. Manandhar and A.M. Costello

Drug prices, out-of-pocket payments, and insurer costs: How do payers vary? , pp 221-231

Jie Chen and John A. Rizzo

Health economic choices in old age: Interdisciplinary perspectives on economic decisions and the aging mind , pp 227-270

Lisbeth Nielsen and John W.R. Phillips

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Policies on Youth Std , pp 229-256

Michael Grossman, Robert Kaestner and Sara Markowitz

Chapter 13 Efficiency in Hospital Industry: Summary and Conclusions , pp 231-240

Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis

Adverse selection and the effect of health insurance on utilization of prescribed medicine among patients with chronic conditions , pp 233-272

Yuriy Pylypchuk

Unemployment Insurance and Physical Activity , pp 245-277

Jonathan Cylus

Service- and population-based exemptions: Are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low-income countries? , pp 251-288

Sophie Witter

Gender, Body Mass, and Socioeconomic Status: New Evidence from the PSID , pp 253-275

Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber

Can We Model the Impact of Increased Drug Treatment Expenditure on the U.K. Drug Market? , pp 257-275

Christine Godfrey, Steve Parrott, Gail Eaton, Anthony Culyer and Cynthia McDougall

Child health disparities, socio-economic status, and school enrollment decisions: Evidence from German elementary school entrance exams , pp 271-288

Martin Salm and Daniel Schunk

The effect of drug vintage on survival: Micro evidence from Puerto Rico's Medicaid program , pp 273-292

Frank Lichtenberg

Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking: Evidence from a New Era , pp 277-291

John A. Tauras, Sara Markowitz and John Cawley

Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality , pp 279-318

Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood

Temporal discounting as a measure of executive function: Insights from the competing neuro-behavioral decision system hypothesis of addiction , pp 289-309

Warren K. Bickel and Richard Yi

From scheme to system: social health insurance funds and the transformation of health financing in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova , pp 291-312

Joseph Kutzin, Melitta Jakab and Sergey Shishkin

The Fires are not out yet: Higher Taxes and Young Adult Smoking , pp 293-312

Philip DeCicca, Don Kenkel and Alan Mathios

Retail pharmacy market structure and insurer-independent pharmacy bargaining in the medicare part D era , pp 295-316

Yang Xie, John M. Brooks, Julie M. Urmie and William R. Doucette

Expectations mediate objective physiological placebo effects , pp 311-327

Anup Malani and Daniel Houser

Coupons and Advertising in Markets for Addictive Goods: Do Cigarette Manufacturers React to Known Future Tax Increases? , pp 313-327

Dean R. Lillard and Andrew Sfekas

Reforming “developing” health systems: Tanzania, Mexico, and the United States , pp 313-338

Dov Chernichovsky, Gabriel Martinez and Nelly Aguilera

Patents, innovation, and the welfare effects of Medicare Part D , pp 317-344

Adam Gailey, Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

Obesity, Hospital Services use and Costs , pp 319-332

Nana Bro Folmann, Kristine Skovgaard Bossen, Ingrid Willaing, Jan Sørensen, John Sahl Andersen, Steen Ladelund and Torben Jørgensen

Symbolism and Rationality in the Politics of Psychoactive Substances , pp 331-346

Robin Room

How much does Obesity Matter? Results from the 2001 Canadian Community Health Survey , pp 333-364

William MacMinn, James McIntosh and Caroline Yung

What Does it Mean to Decriminalize Marijuana? A Cross-National Empirical Examination , pp 347-369

Rosalie Pacula, Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter, Jamie Chriqui, Beau Kilmer, Katherine Harris, Letizia Paoli and Carsten Schäfer

Economic Perspectives On Injecting Drug Use , pp 371-395

David E. Bloom, Ajay Mahal and Brendan O’Flaherty

Models Pertaining to How Drug Policy Should Vary Over the Course of a Drug Epidemic , pp 397-429

Jonathan P. Caulkins

Economic Evaluation of Relapse Prevention for Substance Users: Treatment Settings and Health Care Policy , pp 431-450

Tetsuji Yamada, Chia-Ching Chen and Tadashi Yamada