An evaluation of Medicaid selective contracting in California.

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：:We show that when health care providers have market power and engage in Cournot competition, a competitive upstream health insurance market results in over-insurance and over-priced health care. Even though consumers and firms anticipate the price interactions between these two markets - the price set in one market af...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vaithianathan R

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：: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 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：:This paper measures the extent to which the price of nursing home care affects a potential substitute living arrangement: coresidence with adult children. Exploiting variation in state Medicaid income "spend-down" provisions over time, I find that living in a state with a spend-down provision decreases the prevalence ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mommaerts C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in predicting differences in life expectancy using data from a large sample of children collected in 16 locations in England and Scotland in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life mo...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Frijters P,Hatton TJ,Martin RM,Shields MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Medical researchers are rapidly identifying the genetic causes of many diseases. Genes that increase the risk of contracting Alzheimer's, colon and breast cancer, Huntington's, cystic fibrosis and numerous other diseases have been identified. Genetic tests can reveal an individual's probable health status many years i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Tabarrok A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing literature on economic evaluation of health care programmes, little attention has been paid to the theoretical foundations of cost-effectiveness and cost utility analyses and the validity of the decision rules adopted as methods of achieving the stated goals. We show that although applications of t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Birch S,Gafni A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late childhood and adolescence is a critical time for social and emotional development. Over the past two decades, this life stage has been hugely affected by the almost universal adoption of the internet as a source of information, communication, and entertainment. We use a large representative sample of over 6300 ch...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McDool E,Powell P,Roberts J,Taylor K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the effects of the reference pricing program implemented by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) in 2012. The program uses targeted cost-sharing to incentivize patient price shopping. We find that the program leads to a 10.3% increase in the use of low-price providers and red...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Whaley CM,Guo C,Brown TT

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Many health risks are ambiguous in the sense that reliable and credible information about these risks is unavailable. In health economics, ambiguity is usually handled through sensitivity analysis, which implicitly assumes that people are neutral towards ambiguity. However, empirical evidence suggests that people are ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Berger L,Bleichrodt H,Eeckhoudt L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact on children's health at ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mitrut A,Wolff FC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1990s, a record number of U.S. hospitals entered into some form of vertical combination with physicians. During the same period, many integrated hospital-physician arrangements broke up. Using data from California, we investigate whether such vertical activity affected hospital pricing. We find that neither...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ciliberto F,Dranove D

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Flat capitation (uniform prospective payments) makes enrolling healthy enrollees profitable to health plans. Plans with relatively generous benefits may attract the sick and fail through a premium spiral. We simulate a model of idealized managed competition to explore the effect on market performance of alternatives t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Carter G,Newhouse JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses, I update earlier state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lindo JM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimate the effect of education on smoking. Our estimation strategy "differences out" the impact of unobserved characteristics correlated with education by exploiting education differences between similarly selected groups 1 year apart in their life cycle. Individuals with a given age, education, and student statu...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Tenn S,Herman DA,Wendling B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swedish cross-sectional survey data on young individuals aged 12-18-year-old was used to analyse school-class based peer effects in binge drinking, smoking and illicit-drug use. Significant and positive peer effects were found for all three activities. By introducing school/grade fixed effects, the estimated peer effe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lundborg P

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Although the effect of time to death (TTD) on health care expenditures (HCE) has been investigated using individual level data, the most profound implications of TTD have been for the forecasting of macro-level HCE. Here we estimate the TTD model using macro-level data from the Netherlands consisting of mortality rate...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Baal PH,Wong A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack in the late 1980s and 17 years of follow up data, I evaluate the long-term costs and benefits of r...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cutler DM

更新日期：2007-12-01 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 test whether the heightened mortality after the death of a spouse represents correlation or causation by examining the heterogeneity in the bereavement effect based on the spouse's cause of death. Some causes of death are correlated with socioeconomic characteristics while others are not. Equality in the bereavemen...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Espinosa J,Evans WN

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present findings from a field experiment conducted at 40 elementary schools involving 8000 children and 400,000 child-day observations, which tested whether providing short-run incentives can create habit formation in children. Over a 3- or 5-week period, students received an incentive for eating a serving of fruit...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Loewenstein G,Price J,Volpp K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. Based on data for the white populatio...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kotschy R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By comparing aggregated physician utilization data in Michigan with a disaggregated measure of the intensity with which physicians treat their patients, the article shows that the availability effect found in many studies of the physician services markets is due to the larger number of providers seen by patients in ph...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stano M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines factors associated with differences in managed care penetration across geographic areas. Two alternative measures of managed care penetration are considered: the percentage of revenue physicians received from managed care contracts and market survey data on enrollments in managed care plans. Result...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D,Simon CJ,White WD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00