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abstract：:This paper examines the impact of parental illness on children's education. We find that only father's illness decreases children's school attendance. Father's illness also has long-term impacts on child education, as it decreases children's likelihood of completing primary school and leads to fewer years of schooling...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Alam SA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conduct an applied welfare economics analysis of cigarette tax avoidance. We develop an extension of the standard formula for the optimal Pigouvian corrective tax to incorporate the possibility that consumers avoid the tax by making purchases in nearby lower tax jurisdictions. To provide a key parameter for our for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： DeCicca P,Kenkel D,Liu F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses seven waves of British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data to examine the link between health developments while smoking (both one's own and those of other smokers in the same household) and future cigarette consumption. We find those whose health worsens when smoking smoke less in the future, and are m...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Clark A,Etilé F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noncooperative character of resource allocation in a national health service may contribute to excessive waiting lists. A theory of hospital waiting lists is derived from this idea. Waiting lists imply loss of efficiency; the hospital's resources are drawn away from medical work. Although there is scope for Pareto...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Iversen T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the consequences of advance medical directives--which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the event of a loss of competence--we analyze the medical care of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who died between 1985 and 1995. We compare the care of patie...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kessler DP,McClellan MB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model includes targeted fee increases, extended hours, performance-based initiatives, and patient enrolment. Using a long pane...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kantarevic J,Kralj B,Weinkauf D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a patient arrives at the Emergency Room with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the provider on duty must quickly decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992 to 2014, we decompose practice style into two components: The provider's probability of conduct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Currie J,MacLeod WB,Van Parys J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) was designed to spur the development of drugs for rare diseases. In principle, its design also incentivizes pharmaceutical firms to develop drugs for "rare" subdivisions of more prevalent diseases. I find that in response to this incentive, firms develop drugs for ODA-qualifying subdivisions ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Yin W

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates a multiproduct variable cost function using data on a sample of California hospitals. The results provide useful insights into the advantages and disadvantages of flexible functional forms for cost analysis. The translog function appears to provide reasonable estimates of marginal costs when evalu...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vita MG

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical terms, a screening compliance rate of 100% may be deemed optimal in that the number of abnormalities detected is thereby maximized. This paper explores optimum compliance rates from the cost-effectiveness point of view by modelling the individual's decision to participate in the screening programme. Using ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Walker A,Whynes DK

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the impact of trans fat bans on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates. Several New York State jurisdictions have restricted the use of ingredients containing artificial trans fat in food service establishments. The resulting within-county variation over time and the differential timing of th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Restrepo BJ,Rieger M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of alcohol regulation on physical child abuse. Given the positive relationship between alcohol consumption and violence, and the negative relationship between consumption and price, the principal hypothesis to be tested is that an increase in the price of alcohol wil...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Markowitz S,Grossman M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 10% of people have O-negative blood. Because it can be transfused into almost anyone, hospitals particularly value such blood. We use this fact, together with the assumption that blood types are exogenously assigned by nature, to design an empirical inquiry into altruism. We also investigate the timing o...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Wildman J,Hollingsworth B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses a measure of health knowledge of smoking hazards to investigate the determinants of health knowledge and its effect on smoking behavior. In our analysis, two equations are estimated: smoking participation and health knowledge. The simultaneity problem in estimating smoking behavior and health knowledge...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hsieh CR,Yen LL,Liu JT,Lin CJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many medical care markets with limited profit potential, firms often have little incentive to innovate. These include the market for rare diseases, "neglected" tropical diseases, and personalized medicine. Governments and not-for-profit organizations promote innovation in such markets but empirical evidence on the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Iizuka T,Uchida G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we estimate long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version wher...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schmitz H,Westphal M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reexamines the effect of the business cycle on alcohol consumption using U.S. state-level analysis introduced by Rhum [Ruhm, C.J., 1995. Economic conditions and alcohol problems. Journal of Health Economics 14, 583-603]. Using an extended panel, this analysis finds that Ruhm's estimates are biased and incon...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Freeman DG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a measure of household exposure to particularly onerous medical expenses. The measure can be decomposed into the probability that medical expenditure exceeds a threshold, the loss due to predictably low consumption of other goods if it does and the further loss arising from the volatility of medical expense...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Flores G,O'Donnell O

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study gatekeeping physicians' referrals of patients to specialty care. We derive theoretical results when competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care more often. Second, physicians earn more by treating patients themselves, so refe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Godager G,Iversen T,Ma CT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nikolova S,Sinko A,Sutton M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond and Mazumder (2011), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this effect is especially pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Ewijk R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intergenerational transmission of human capital from parents to offspring is widely documented. However, whether there are upward spillovers from children to parents remains understudied. This paper uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to estimate the causal impact of educational attainmen...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ma M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes how economic factors (relative expected earnings, relative expected hours worked, and relative length of training period) affect the distribution of medical residents across specialties. The results show that the percent of residents in a given specialty changes more than proportionately when relat...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McKay NL

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine whether the availability of subsidized health insurance to the non-working population in Taiwan affected the labor force participation of married women. Our empirical identification exploits the fact that such insurance was first made available to wives of government employees, before being made universally...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chou YJ,Staiger D

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US health insurance industry is highly concentrated, and health insurance premiums are high and rising rapidly. Policymakers have focused on the possible link between the two, leading to ACA provisions to increase insurer competition. However, while market power may enable insurers to include higher profit margins...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Trish EE,Herring BJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the first attempt to use a discrete choice experiment to derive distributional weights for quality adjusted life years (QALYs), based on characteristics (age and severity) of the beneficiaries. A novel approach using the Hicksian compensating variation is applied. Advantages include derivation of w...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lancsar E,Wildman J,Donaldson C,Ryan M,Baker R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of the surplus loss due to physician practice variation measure the area under the 'shifted' demand curve. This method is valid only if the unshifted demand curve is derived form the distribution of true(ex post) values of care. If the unshifted demand curve does not reflect the true value of care, then the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a conceptual framework in which preferences about the distribution of future health gains depend on differences in four 'health streams'. These are as follows: (1) the amount of health to be gained; (2) the no-treatment profiles; (3) the amount of health experienced thus far: and (4) the amount of ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dolan PA,Olsen JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyses the redistributive effect caused by health financing and the distribution of healthcare utilization in Argentina before and during the severe 2001/2002 economic crisis. Both dramatically changed during this period: the redistributive effect became much more positive and utilization shifted from p...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cavagnero E,Bilger M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement unit disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), used in recent years to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors on human populations, is grounded on cogent economic and ethical principles and can guide policies toward delivering more cost-effective and equitable health care. DALYs follo...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Murray CJ,Acharya AK

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00