Estimating treatment cost functions for progressive diseases: a multiproduct approach with an application to breast cancer.

abstract：:We examine selection incentives by health plans while refining the selection index of McGuire et al. (2014) to reflect not only service predictability and predictiveness but also variation in cost sharing, risk-adjusted profits, profit margins, and newly-refined demand elasticities across 26 disaggregated types of ser...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ellis RP,Martins B,Zhu W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial expected value of perfect information (EVPI) quantifies the value of removing uncertainty about unknown parameters in a decision model. EVPIs can be computed via Monte Carlo methods. An outer loop samples values of the parameters of interest, and an inner loop samples the remaining parameters from their condit...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Oakley JE,Brennan A,Tappenden P,Chilcott J

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals compete for patients by offering their doctors high quality services to a price war for the patients of payors? This paper uses time-series cross-sectional methods on California hospital discharge data from 1986-1994 to show the...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Melnick G,Zwanziger J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a neoclassical utility maximization model of physician behavior in which the physician determines the price of physician office and hospital visits, the utilization rates for physician office and hospital visits and hospital days, and the resources and physician time inputs in the production of vis...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McCombs JS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the effect of recent federal and state level increases in the deductibility of health insurance premiums for self-employed individuals, which reduced the after-tax price of health insurance, on both the take-up of coverage and the amount of insurance purchased. Using a panel of tax returns filed b...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Heim BT,Lurie IZ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite twenty years of work on supplier-induced demand (SID) there has been little discussion or investigation of how inducement affects the health of patients. We develop a conceptual framework for SID which includes the clinical effectiveness of the health services utilized as well as the effectiveness of the agenc...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Labelle R,Stoddart G,Rice T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EQ-5D is used in cost-effectiveness studies underlying many important health policy decisions. It comprises a survey instrument describing health states across five domains, and a system of utility values for each state. The original 3-level version of EQ-5D is being replaced with a more sensitive 5-level version but ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hernández-Alava M,Pudney S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute care hospitals have long been viewed as multi-product 'firms', a characteristic which has necessitated special adjustments for cost analyses of this sector. Output mix adjustment has generally had an ad hoc flavour, with service/facility proxies and patient mix variables often being used interchangeably. Where s...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barer ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine how different welfarist frameworks evaluate the social value of mortality risk reduction. These frameworks include classical, distributively unweighted cost-benefit analysis--i.e., the "value per statistical life" (VSL) approach-and various social welfare functions (SWFs). The SWFs are either utilitarian or...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Adler MD,Hammitt JK,Treich N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reform proposals of health care systems in several countries have advocated variations of a risk adjustment/capitation system. These proposals face a serious objection: incentives to risk selection are prevalent in the system. By now, considerable literature has been devoted to finding ways of mitigating, if not elimi...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barros PP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a new stylized fact about the relationship between income and childhood vaccination. It shows vaccination rates first rise but then fall as income increases. This pattern is observed in WHO country-level panel data, and in US county-level panel and individual-level repeated cross-section data. This...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sakai Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines whether Dutch disability insurance reforms have helped or hindered employment opportunities of workers that are facing unanticipated shocks to their health. An important component of the reforms was to make employers responsible for paying sickness benefits and to strengthen their sickness monitori...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hullegie P,Koning P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of the diffusion of innovations have not addressed adequately econometric problems that are characteristic of such analyses. Reanalysis of data for five innovations using an estimator with desirable statistical properties results in a considerably revised estimate of the impact of prospective reimbur...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lee RH,Waldman DM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of early life malaria exposure on cognition in sample of Mexican adults, using the nationwide introduction of malaria eradication efforts to identify causal impacts. The core findings are that birth year exposure to malaria eradication was associated with increases in Raven Progressive M...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Venkataramani AS

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：: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：:This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that (i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and (ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on both sides of the la...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lehrer SF,Pereira NS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in examining health expenditures. In this paper, we study the behaviour of health expenditures in the G3 countries (USA, the UK, and Japan) and three European countries (the UK, Switzerland and Spain) over the period 1960-2000 from a different perspective, in tha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:We conducted a field experiment comparing hypothetical and real purchase decisions for a pharmacist provided asthma management program among 172 subjects with asthma. Subjects received either a dichotomous choice contingent valuation question or were given the opportunity to actually enroll in the program. Three diffe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Blumenschein K,Johannesson M,Yokoyama KK,Freeman PR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 166 general hospitals in New York State (1981) is used to estimate a quadratic and logarithmic long-run cost function. Both equations fit the data very well but give very different results. The quadratic appears in confirm the commonly-held view of a shallow U-shaped average cost curve, whereas the log funct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vitaliano DF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tradeoffs between health and wealth are among the most important decisions individuals make, and are central to social and economic policy. Yet, only a few studies have investigated the utility of health and wealth empirically. This paper investigates this utility function both theoretically and empirically. We conduc...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Levy M,Nir AR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study a managed health service market where differentiated providers compete for consumers by choosing multiple service qualities, and where copayments that consumers pay and payments that providers receive for services are set by a payer. The optimal regulation scheme is two-sided. On the demand side, it justifies ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mak HY

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed an empirical elicitation of the equity-efficiency trade-off in cost-utility analysis using the rank-dependent quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) model, a model that includes as special cases many of the social welfare functions that have been proposed in the literature. Our elicitation method corrects for ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bleichrodt H,Doctor J,Stolk E

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The price effects of the Swedish pharmaceutical substitution reform are analyzed using data for a panel of all pharmaceutical product sold in Sweden in 1997-2007. The price reduction due to the reform was estimated to average 10% and was found to be significantly larger for brand-name pharmaceuticals than for generics...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Granlund D

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Tiered and narrow provider networks are mechanisms implemented by health plans to reduce health care costs. The benefits of narrow networks for consumers usually come in the form of lower premiums in exchange for access to fewer providers. Narrow networks may disrupt continuity of care and access to usual sources of c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Higuera L,Carlin CS,Dowd B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces a model in which individuals incur adjustment costs associated with adaptations made following changes in their health. With adjustment costs, patients' preferences for health states depend on their initial health in such a way that improvements have lower values than corresponding deterioratio...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sharma R,Stano M,Haas M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00