A note on 'Economic conditions and alcohol problems'.

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：:Medical decision analyses typically focus on one disease, that is, on one source of risk. In many medical decisions multiple sources of risk co-exist, however. This paper analyzes the effect of such comorbidities on treatment decisions. The effect of comorbidities on treatment decisions depends primarily on the way in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bleichrodt H,Crainich D,Eeckhoudt L

更新日期：2003-09-01 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 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：: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：: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：:This paper tests the effectiveness of performance pay and bonuses among government childcare workers in India. In a controlled study of 160 ICDS centers serving over 4000 children, we randomly assign workers to either fixed bonuses or payments based on the nutritional status of children in their care, and also collect...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Singh P,Masters WA

更新日期：2017-09-01 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 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：:This paper studies the design of long term care (LTC) insurance contracts in the presence of ex post moral hazard. While this problem bears some similarity with the study of health insurance (Blomqvist, 1997) the significance of informal LTC affects the problem in several crucial ways. It introduces the potential crow...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cremer H,Lozachmeur JM,Pestieau P

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:We study the short- and long-term price effects of the number of competing firms, using panel-data on 1303 distinct pharmaceutical markets for 78 months within a reference-price system. We use actual transaction prices in an institutional setting with little scope for non-price competition and where simultaneity probl...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Granlund D,Bergman MA

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:The dynamic evolution of health and persistent relationship status pose econometric challenges to disentangling the causal effect of relationships on health from the selection effect of health on relationship choice. Using a new econometric strategy we find that marriage is not universally better for health. Rather, c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kohn JL,Averett SL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorporating findings from the genetics and neuroscience literatures. We use a sampl...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Justin Cook C,Fletcher JM

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:This paper builds and estimates a dynamic choice model to examine the impact on health insurance selection of Chile's GES health care reform. This program provides guarantees in coverage and benefits to several health conditions in the context of a market where public and private health insurers co-exist. Structural d...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Pardo C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We test whether the generosity of employer-sponsored health insurance facilitates the exercise of market power by hospitals. We construct indices of health plan generosity and the price and volume of hospital services using data from Truven MarketScan for 601 counties from 2001 to 2007. We use variation in the industr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baker LC,Bundorf MK,Kessler DP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shortage of health workers in many low-income countries poses a threat to the quality of health services. When the number of patients per health worker grows sufficiently high, there will be insufficient time to diagnose and treat all patients adequately. This paper tests the hypothesis that high caseload reduces ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Maestad O,Torsvik G,Aakvik A

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:The conventional theory of optimal coinsurance rates for health insurance with moral hazard indicates that coinsurance should vary with the price responsiveness or price-elasticity of demand for different medical services. An alternative theory called "value-based cost sharing" indicates that coinsurance should be low...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Pauly MV,Blavin FE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces the discrete choice model-paradigm of Random Regret Minimisation (RRM) to the field of health economics. The RRM is a regret-based model that explores a driver of choice different from the traditional utility-based Random Utility Maximisation (RUM). The RRM approach is based on the idea that, whe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Boeri M,Longo A,Grisolía JM,Hutchinson WG,Kee F

更新日期：2013-01-01 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 study asks why hospitals provide direct financial support to nursing schools and faculty. This support is striking because nursing education is clearly general, clearly paid by the firm, and information asymmetries appear minimal. Using AHA and survey data, I find hospitals employing a greater share of their MSA'...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Benson A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatality risk-money tradeoff that is the value of a statistical life (VSL) may vary with the nature of the fatality event. While all fatalities involve loss of future life expectancy, the morbidity effects and their duration may differ. This article analyzes fatality risks accompanied by morbidity effects of diffe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gentry EP,Viscusi WK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election years. ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Potrafke N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used 1982-1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid significantly reduced the rate of inflation in average costs per admission and per patient day, while slightly in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Robinson JC,Phibbs CS

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:Previous studies of hospital competition have found that greater competition leads to higher hospital costs. In this paper we report how the behavior of California's hospitals has changed since the introduction of programs intended to contain the rate of increase of hospital costs. Using data that cover the period pre...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zwanziger J,Melnick GA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00