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' behavior is consistent with the solution to an optimal stopping problem in which they reject low quality organs for relatively healthy patients in the hope that they will receive a better organ offer in the future. I discuss trends in organ procurement in light of this finding.
journal_name
J Health Econjournal_title
Journal of health economicsauthors
Howard DHdoi
10.1016/s0167-6296(02)00077-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-11-01 00:00:00pages
957-69issue
6eissn
0167-6296issn
1879-1646pii
S0167-6296(02)00077-2journal_volume
21pub_type
杂志文章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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.12.002
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While recent research has shown that cannabis access laws can reduce the use of prescription opioids, the effect of these laws on opioid use is not well understood for all dimensions of use and for the general United States population. Analyzing a dataset of over 1.5 billion individual opioid prescriptions between 201...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102273
更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In recent decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition approach using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.10.002
更新日期：2013-12-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0167-6296(97)00045-3
更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper estimates the effect of ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) on hospital surgical volume using hospital and year fixed effects models with several robustness checks. We show that ASC entry only appears to influence a hospital's outpatient surgical volume if the facilities are within a few miles of each other....
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.07.003
更新日期：2010-09-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102274
更新日期：2020-01-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.07.002
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Observational studies of demand for mental health services showed much greater use by those with more generous insurance, but this difference may have been due to adverse selection, rather than in response to price. This paper avoids the adverse selection problem by using data from a randomized trial, the RAND Health ...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-6296(88)90021-5
更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the impact of retiree health coverage on the labor supply of public sector workers between the ages of 55 and 64. We find that retiree health covera...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.03.013
更新日期：2014-12-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-6296(91)90002-5
更新日期：1991-07-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.08.008
更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the societal payoff has not been well-understood. We quantify the value of recent gains in cancer survival, and analyze the distribution of value among various stakeholders. Between 1988 and 2000, life expe...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.02.006
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Between 1991 and 1998 English general practices had the option of holding budgets for prescribing and elective secondary care. Fundholding was reintroduced in 2005. We examine the effect of fundholding on patients' satisfaction with their practice, using a cross section of 4441 patients from 60 practices in the last y...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.12.003
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper studies the health effects of one of the world's largest demand-side financial incentive programmes--India's Janani Suraksha Yojana. Our difference-in-difference estimates exploit heterogeneity in the implementation of the financial incentive programme across districts. We find that cash incentives to women...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.07.001
更新日期：2015-09-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.07.005
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Most employees contribute towards the cost of employer-sponsored insurance, despite tax laws that favor zero contributions. Contribution levels vary markedly across firms, and the average contribution (as a percentage of the premium) has increased over time. We offer a novel explanation for these facts: employers rais...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0167-6296(99)00007-7
更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper uses a measure of health knowledge of smoking hazards to investigate the determinants of health knowledge and its effect on smoking behavior. In our analysis, two equations are estimated: smoking participation and health knowledge. The simultaneity problem in estimating smoking behavior and health knowledge...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-6296(95)00033-x
更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examine the relationship between nutritional status, poverty, and food insecurity for household members of various ages. Our most striking result is that, while poverty is predictive of poor nutrition among preschool children, food insecurity doe...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.12.008
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article assesses the impact of dentist remuneration on the incidence of potentially harmful dental X-rays. We use unique panel data which provide details of 1.3 million treatment claims by Scottish NHS dentists made between 1998 and 2007. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both patients and dentists we e...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.005
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper estimates a multiproduct variable cost function using data on a sample of California hospitals. The results provide useful insights into the advantages and disadvantages of flexible functional forms for cost analysis. The translog function appears to provide reasonable estimates of marginal costs when evalu...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-6296(90)90038-5
更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Graduated driver licensing (GDL) is a critical policy tool for potentially improving teenage driving while reducing teen accident exposure. While previous studies demonstrated that GDL reduces teenage involvement in fatal crashes, much remains unanswered. We explore the mechanisms through which GDL influences accident...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.10.002
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recent analyses suggest that cigarette excise taxes lower prenatal smoking. It is unclear, however, whether the association between taxes and prenatal smoking represents a decline among women of reproductive age or a particular response by pregnant women. We address this question directly with an analysis of quit and ...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.06.003
更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper examines the impact of parental illness on children's education. We find that only father's illness decreases children's school attendance. Father's illness also has long-term impacts on child education, as it decreases children's likelihood of completing primary school and leads to fewer years of schooling...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.09.004
更新日期：2015-12-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.03.006
更新日期：2017-07-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2004.10.001
更新日期：2005-07-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.06.006
更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Determinants of health insurance choices are estimated from a logit model and data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey. Employees offered a choice between traditional health insurance plans chose the high option and the low option in roughly equal numbers. About a quarter of the employees who were offere...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-6296(89)90023-4
更新日期：1989-12-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102267
更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The US health insurance industry is highly concentrated, and health insurance premiums are high and rising rapidly. Policymakers have focused on the possible link between the two, leading to ACA provisions to increase insurer competition. However, while market power may enable insurers to include higher profit margins...
journal_title：Journal of health economics
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.009
更新日期：2015-07-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.04.003
更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00
