When do fat taxes increase consumer welfare?

abstract：:In 2011, the USA had the second highest teen birth rate of any developed nation, according to the World Bank, . In an effort to lower teen pregnancy rates, several states have enacted policies requiring abstinence-based sex education. In this study, we utilize a difference-in-differences research design to analyze the...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Carr JB,Packham A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2008, the Rural Health Project (Health XI) was initiated in 40 Chinese counties to pilot interventions aimed at improving local health systems. Performance targets were pre-specified (results-based), and project counties were allowed to tailor their interventions (bottom-up) in recognition of the substantial region...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Zhang H,van Doorslaer E,Xu L,Zhang Y,van de Klundert J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence from US studies suggests that female physicians earn less than their male counterparts, on average. The earnings gap does not disappear when individual and market characteristics are controlled for. This paper investigates whether a gender earnings difference can also be observed in a health-care sy...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Theurl E,Winner H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper critically reviews theoretical and empirical propositions regarding visual analogue scale (VAS) valuations of health states and their use in cost-utility analysis (CUA). A widely repeated assertion in the economic evaluation literature is the inferiority, on theoretical grounds, of VAS valuations. Five comm...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Parkin D,Devlin N

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well documented for developed countries, less evidence has been presented for developing countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse this relationship at the household level for Fiji, a developing country in the South Pacific, using original...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Lordan G,Soto EJ,Brown RP,Correa-Valez I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we used stochastic frontier cost functions to estimate the teaching and research costs of Finnish hospitals. Average and marginal cost estimates were used to evaluate the current reimbursement system as well as to calculate the total expenditure on teaching and research in hospitals. The efficiency adjus...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Linna M,Häkkinen U,Linnakko E

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on workers' compensation (WC) claiming among adults. Medical marijuana is plausibly related to WC claiming by allowing improved symptom management, and thus reduced need for the benefit, among injured or ill workers. We use data on claiming drawn from the Annu...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ghimire KM,Maclean JC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies may displace existing, higher-value care under a fixed budget. Countries aim to curtail adoption of low-value technologies, for example, by installing cost-effectiveness thresholds. Our objective is to estimate the opportunity cost of hospital care to identify a threshold value for the Netherlands. To...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stadhouders N,Koolman X,van Dijk C,Jeurissen P,Adang E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Future Elderly Model (FEM) is a microsimulation model designed to forecast health status, longevity, and a variety of economic outcomes. Compared to traditional actuarial models, microsimulation models provide greater opportunities for policy forecasting and richer detail, but they typically build upon smaller sam...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Leaf DE,Tysinger B,Goldman DP,Lakdawalla DN

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:I exploit substantial increases in the earned income tax credit to study how a policy-driven change in family income affects childhood obesity. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, my difference-in-differences estimates indicate that the probability of being obese increased by 3 percentage points amon...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Jo Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have developed a random effects probit model in which the distribution of the random intercept is approximated by a discrete density. Monte Carlo results show that only three to four points of support are required for the discrete density to closely mimic normal and chi-squared densities and provide unbiased estimat...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Deb P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Economic evaluation using dynamic transmission models is important for capturing the indirect effects of infectious disease interventions. We examine the use of these methods in low- and middle-income countries, where infectious diseases constitute a major burden. This review is comprised of two parts: (1) a summary o...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Drake TL,Devine A,Yeung S,Day NP,White LJ,Lubell Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a household survey were used to analyse the distribution of newborn deliveries in a rural area of Kenya. It was found that 52% of deliveries occurred at home or with traditional birth attendants. Using regression techniques, the most significant predictors of choosing an informal delivery setting are the hou...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Hodgkin D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the determinants of dental ill-health as measured by the occurrence of caries. A recursive bivariate probit model that was derived from health production and demand theory is employed to model caries, while taking account of dental care use. The data are from a follow-up questionnaire used in a longitudinal...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Nguyen L,Häkkinen U,Knuuttila M,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is commonly argued that there is a mismatch between drug innovation and disease burden, there is little evidence on the magnitude and direction of such disparities. In this paper, we measure inequality in innovation, by comparing research and development activity with population health and gross domestic p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barrenho E,Miraldo M,Smith PC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely-accepted hypothesis of a development sequence from colorectal adenoma to carcinoma is felt by clinicians to legitimate adenoma excision during routine colonoscopic investigation. Using published data on adenoma development, and adenoma prevalence data derived from the Nottingham colorectal cancer screening ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Whynes DK,Walker AR,Hardcastle JD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, fees levied by quarter or year), the empirical analysis of its effects has to take the within-period time structure of incentives into account. The analysis is further complicated when demand data are obtained from a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Winter J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures using data from 8 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2013. Health measures are self-rated health (SRH) and functional limitations; economic status measures are labor income (earnings), family income, and net wealth. ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Meraya AM,Dwibedi N,Tan X,Innes K,Mitra S,Sambamoorthi U

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senegal is the only African country where sex work is legal and regulated by a health policy. Senegalese female sex workers (FSWs) are required to register with a health facility and to attend monthly routine health checks aimed at testing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Compliance to those routin...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Ito S,Lépine A,Treibich C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, the price of cigarettes has increased considerably in the USA. In addition, a number of states have also imposed smoking bans. These increases in the cost and barriers to smoking have created a natural experiment to study relationships between smoking and drinking behaviors. In this study, we em...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Picone GA,Sloan F,Trogdon JG

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a number of papers have brought up the issue of how to make cost-effectiveness (CE) studies stochastic, i.e. how to obtain confidence intervals for CE ratios. In this note we present a bootstrap procedure for estimating bias-corrected confidence intervals for CE ratios. The bootstrap procedure is tested in a...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Tambour M,Zethraeus N

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well-being valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to maintain the same level of well-being after an informal caregiver provides an extra hour of informal care. The informal caregiver's well-being ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： van den Berg B,Ferrer-I-Carbonell A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partnerships between government and non-state actors that aim to enhance the quality or efficiency of service delivery are increasingly common in today's development policy landscape. We investigate the impacts of such an approach using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control progr...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Das A,Friedman J,Kandpal E

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The assessment of health states considered to be worse than dead is a controversial issue. OBJECTIVE:To investigate how health states are valued when they are close to dead. Differences between adjacent states are compared with the differences between the first positive/first negative state with death. MET...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Stalmeier PF,Busschbach JJ,Lamers LM,Krabbe PF

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recently changed its guidelines on discounting costs and effects in economic evaluations. In common with most other regulatory bodies it now requires that health effects should be discounted at the same rate as costs. We show that the guideline leads to sub-optimal de...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Gravelle H,Brouwer W,Niessen L,Postma M,Rutten F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Norway specialized health services are provided both by public hospitals and by privately practicing specialists who have a contract with the public sector. A patient's co-payment is the same irrespective of the type of provider he visits. The ambition of equity in the allocation of medical care is high among all p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Iversen T,Kopperud GS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study the effect of prescription drug essential health benefits (EHB) requirements from the Affordable Care Act on prescription drug formularies of health insurance marketplace plans. The EHB regulates the number of drugs covered but leaves other dimensions (cost sharing and utilization management) of the formulary ...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Andersen M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear price schedules generally have heterogeneous effects on health-care demand. We develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In administrative in...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Farbmacher H,Ihle P,Schubert I,Winter J,Wuppermann A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the determinants of growth of aggregate health expenditures are investigated. The study departs from previous literature in that it looks at differences across countries in growth (and not levels) of health care expenditures. Estimation is made for 24 OECD countries. Health system characteristics usuall...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Barros PP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the health care expenditure of end-of-life patients and hospital characteristics in Taiwan where (i) hospitals of different ownership differ in their financial incentives; (ii) patients are free to choose their providers; and (iii) health care services are p...

journal_title：Health economics

authors： Chang S,He Y,Hsieh CR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00