The diffusion of innovations in hospitals. Some econometric considerations.

abstract：:I study the interplay among competition, contractual commitment, income risk, and saving and borrowing in insuring consumers against both short-term healthcare expenses and longer-term changes in health status. Examining different combinations of firms' ability to commit to long-term contracts, consumers' access to cr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Wiseman T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of two vaccination policies - simple non-binding recommendations to vaccinate versus mandates requiring vaccination prior to childcare or kindergarten attendance - in the context of the only disease whose institutional features permit a credible examination of both: hepati...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lawler EC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the effect of US public health insurance programs for children on health. Previous work in this area has typically focused on the relationship between current program eligibility and current health. But because health is a stock variable which reflects the cumulative influence of health inputs, it...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Thompson O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a simple model of health insurance with asymmetric information, where we compare two alternative ways of organizing the insurance market. Either as a competitive insurance market, where some risks remain uninsured, or as a compulsory scheme, where however, the level of reimbursement of loss i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hansen BO,Keiding H

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examine the relationships between health care visits to general practitioners, public and private sector specialists using data from Italy, which has a mixed public-private health care system. We develop a simultaneous equations model that allows for the discreteness of measures of utilization and es...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Atella V,Deb P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Criteria for initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatments (HAART) in HIV-infected patients remain a matter of debate world-wide because short-term benefits have to be balanced with costs of these therapies, and restrictions placed on future treatment options if resistant viral strains develop. On the other ha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lasserre P,Moatti JP,Soubeyran A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the scarcity of transplantable organs, 45% of livers are rejected by the first surgeon to whom they are offered. I present a model in which a surgeon decides to accept or reject an organ for a patient based on the patient's current health level. Using data on transplanted patients, I show that surgeons' behavi...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Howard DH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proponents of hospital consolidation claim that mergers lead to significant cost savings, but there is little systematic evidence backing these claims. For a large sample of hospital mergers between 2000 and 2010, I estimate difference-in-differences models that compare cost trends at acquired hospitals to cost trends...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schmitt M

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:This paper investigates the relationship between health care expenditure, income, and other factors that are not related to income for China with pooled cross-section and time series data. To study the stationarity property of these variables, we use panel Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests that allow for struct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chou WL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of the frequency of Canadian malpractice claims, the proportion of claims that result in payment, and the severity of these claims are examined. Inter-specialty variation in the frequency of malpractice claims is almost entirely related to the differential performance of major surgery. Various legal d...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Coyte PC,Dewees DN,Trebilcock MJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of an UK extra-cost disability benefit for older people, Attendance Allowance, is analyzed using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. First, a binary model of benefit participation is used to investigate whether receipt is responsive to the onset of disability. Second, matching esti...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zantomio F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the effects of diverse dimensions of hospital quality - including consumers' perceptions of unobserved attributes - on future hospital choice. We utilize consumers' stated preference weights to obtain hospital-specific estimates of perceptions about unmeasured attributes such as reputation. We report three ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Jung K,Feldman R,Scanlon D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicare claims for elderly admitted for psychiatric care were used to estimate the impact of hospital profit status on costs, length of stay (LOS), and rehospitalizations. No evidence was found that not-for-profits (NFPs) treated sicker patients or had fewer rehospitalizations. For-profits (FPs) actually treated poor...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ettner SL,Hermann RC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do people purchase health insurance? Many economists would answer that it permits purchasers to avoid risk of financial loss. This note suggests that health insurance is also demanded because it represents a mechanism for gaining access to health care that would otherwise be unaffordable. For example, although a U...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nyman JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimates the impact of the price of alcoholic beverages on latent dimensions of current alcohol dependence and abuse. A three-part econometric model is used to estimate the impact of price on three latent dimensions (factors). For heavier drinking, the estimated price elasticity is -1.325 (P = 0.027); for ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Farrell S,Manning WG,Finch MD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. Controlling for parental income, education and social class, children who experience poor health have si...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Case A,Fertig A,Paxson C

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude of the value of a statistical life (VSL) is critical to the evaluation of many health and safety initiatives. To date, the large and rigorous VSL research literature has not explicitly accommodated publication selectivity bias (i.e., the reduced probability that insignificant or negative VSL values are r...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Doucouliagos C,Stanley TD,Giles M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the pricing behaviour of providers of residential care for people with mental health problems. Two aspects of pricing were considered. First, are there differences between providers' market power and their actual mark-up rates (e.g. due to differences in motivation)? Second, do the differe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Forder J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is proposed to assess and improve the performance of risk equalization models in competitive markets for individual health insurance, where compensation is intended for variation in observed expenditures due to so-called S(ubsidy)-type risk factors but not for variation due to other, so-called N(on-subsid...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stam PJ,van Vliet RC,van de Ven WP

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:The friction cost method has been proposed as an alternative to the human-capital approach of estimating indirect costs. We argue that the friction cost method is based on implausible assumptions not supported by neoclassical economic theory. Furthermore consistently applying the friction cost method would mean that t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Johannesson M,Karlsson G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally evaluated the effects of in-kind team incentives on health worker performance in El Salvador, with 38 out of 75 community health teams randomly assigned to performance incentives over a 12-month period. All teams received monitoring, performance feedback and recognition for their achievements allowin...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bernal P,Martinez S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using variation across geographic regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977-2008 and find the same pro-cyclical patterns. Using individual-level register data for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Haaland VF,Telle K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last time that federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages were increased was 1991. The changes were larger than the typical state-level changes that have been used to study price effects, but the consequences have not been assessed due to the lack of a control group. Here we develop and implement a novel method f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cook PJ,Durrance CP

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Recently, much research has been devoted to the question of how the conventional net national product measure should be augmented so as to cover changes in the stocks of natural resources. This paper investigates the treatment of health (capital) and the risk of 'doomsday' caused by pollution in such welfare measures....

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Johansson PO,Löfgren KG

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:While there has been an important increase in methodological and empirical studies on health inequality, not much has been written on the theoretical foundation of health inequality measurement. We discuss several reasons why the classic welfare approach, which is the foundation of income inequality analysis, fails to...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bommier A,Stecklov G

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00