Mental health: market power and governance.

abstract：:This article extends several recent contributions that have compared the physician-induced demand hypothesis to the theory of a monopoly where advertising is included as a decision variable. By introducing a standard profit-maximizing model with inducement, it derives the conditions for the optimum level of inducement...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stano M

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:We assess the causal effect of the National Kidney Registry (NKR), the largest national kidney-exchange network in the U.S., on kidney-exchange outcomes. Analyzing a unique database hosted by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) that contains information on all kidney donors, wait-listed candidates,...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ghanbariamin R,Chung BW

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick-pay. The analysis exploits exogenous switches of family doctors occurring when physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell their patient lists. We find that family doctors have ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Markussen S,Røed K,Røgeberg O

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：:This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for individuals on long-term sickness absence. We use a field experiment performed by the Public Employment Service and the Social Insurance Agency in Sweden during 2008-2010, in which over 4000 participants were ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Laun L,Thoursie PS

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Average wages from 2,275 general hospitals in metropolitan areas across the U.S. were used to test for a wage gradient descending from hospitals in the central city through those in urbanized and finally non-urbanized areas of each county-defined metropolitan area. Significant gradients were found in MSAs of all sizes...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hendricks AM

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：: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：:Waiting times for hospital care are a significant issue in the UK National Health Service (NHS). The reforms of the health service in 1990 gave a subset of family doctors (GP fundholders) both the ability to choose the hospital where their patients were treated and the means to pay for some services. One of the key fa...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Propper C,Croxson B,Shearer A

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct and indirect standardization procedures aim at comparing differences in health or in health care expenditures between subgroups of the population after controlling for observable morbidity differences. There is a close analogy between this problem and the issue of risk adjustment in health insurance. Traditiona...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schokkaert E,Van de Voorde C

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase liquor, around 24.6% (s.e.=5.5%) for males and 22% (s.e.=8.1%) for femal...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Conover E,Scrimgeour D

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Proponents of tort reform applied to medical malpractice argue for change partly on the premise that the threat of lawsuits has made medical care more costly. Using U.S. longitudinal data from the National Long-Term Care Survey merged with Medicare claims and other data for 1985-2000, this study assesses whether tort ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sloan FA,Shadle JH

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:In a recent issue of this Journal, McRae and Tapon (1985) use the Canadian experience with compulsory patent licensing and three provincial drug reimbursement programs to evaluate post-patent barriers to entry in the pharmaceutical industry. In this paper we provide additional evidence on the influence of differing pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gorecki PK

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using detailed panel data on local alcohol policy changes in Texas, this paper tests whether the effect of these changes on alcohol-related accidents depends on whether the policy change involves where the alcohol is consumed and the type of alcohol consumed. After controlling for both county and year fixed effects, w...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baughman R,Conlin M,Dickert-Conlin S,Pepper J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00