The internal consistency of the standard gamble: tests after adjusting for prospect theory.

abstract：:Using the theory of multiproduct cost functions, a treatment cost function is derived for diseases which progress through a number of stages. The output classes are conceived as the stages at detection of the disease, with the unit of output within each class being the treated case. The derivation clarifies the assump...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Butler JR,Furnival CM,Hart RF

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:This paper responds to Culyer and Wagstaff's (CW) and Buckingham's (B) arguments. We refute their claim about the equivalence of HYEs and QALYs; they fail to distinguish between choice under uncertainty and under certainty. CW assume that all individuals have a specific form of utility function, which yields their con...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gafni A,Birch S,Mehrez A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a patient arrives at the Emergency Room with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the provider on duty must quickly decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992 to 2014, we decompose practice style into two components: The provider's probability of conduct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Currie J,MacLeod WB,Van Parys J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do urban hospital closures affect health care access or health outcomes? We study closures in Los Angeles County between 1997 and 2003, through their effect on distance to the nearest hospital. We find that increased distance to the closest hospital increases deaths from heart attacks and unintentional injuries. This ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Buchmueller TC,Jacobson M,Wold C

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we conduct the first national evaluation of the effect of malpractice liability pressure, as measured by malpractice premiums, on prenatal care utilization and infant health. Our results indicate that a decrease in malpractice premiums that would result from a feasible policy reform would lead to a decre...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dubay L,Kaestne R,Waidmann T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a discrete choice experiment, this paper estimates the willingness to pay for biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia. The study design has five treatment arms, which enable an analysis of the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nut...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Meenakshi JV,Banerji A,Manyong V,Tomlins K,Mittal N,Hamukwala P

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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 examine selection incentives by health plans while refining the selection index of McGuire et al. (2014) to reflect not only service predictability and predictiveness but also variation in cost sharing, risk-adjusted profits, profit margins, and newly-refined demand elasticities across 26 disaggregated types of ser...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ellis RP,Martins B,Zhu W

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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：:Measurement of treatment costs is important in the evaluation of medical interventions. Accurate cost estimation is problematic, when cost records are incomplete. Methods from the survival analysis literature have been proposed for estimating costs using available data. In this article, we clarify assumptions necessar...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Etzioni RD,Feuer EJ,Sullivan SD,Lin D,Hu C,Ramsey SD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In evaluation research, some interventions are designed to affect both the subjects that receive the intervention and those that do not. Preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are an example, because if they are successful, PPOs will direct patients away from non-preferred providers towards preferred providers. When ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dowd B,Feldman R

更新日期：1991-10-01 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

authors： Powell-Jackson T,Mazumdar S,Mills A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:In eliciting health state valuations, two widely used methods are the standard gamble (SG) and the time trade off (TTO). Both methods make assumptions about individual preferences that are too restrictive to allow them to act as perfect proxies for utility. Therefore, a choice between them might instead be made on emp...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dolan P,Gudex C,Kind P,Williams A

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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 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：: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 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：:Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals compete for patients by offering their doctors high quality services to a price war for the patients of payors? This paper uses time-series cross-sectional methods on California hospital discharge data from 1986-1994 to show the...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Melnick G,Zwanziger J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial expected value of perfect information (EVPI) quantifies the value of removing uncertainty about unknown parameters in a decision model. EVPIs can be computed via Monte Carlo methods. An outer loop samples values of the parameters of interest, and an inner loop samples the remaining parameters from their condit...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Oakley JE,Brennan A,Tappenden P,Chilcott J

更新日期：2010-05-01 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