Poverty, food insecurity, and nutritional outcomes in children and adults.

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：:We examine whether patients covered by workers' compensation insurance, which covers the cost of medical care for injured workers without cost sharing and with relatively little oversight, are charged more for treatment or receive more services than patients covered by traditional insurance. Our findings indicate that...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baker LC,Krueger AB

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：: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

authors： Bleichrodt H,Doctor J,Stolk E

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is thought to identify what works and does not work in health care. We interpret CER as infusing evidence on product quality into markets, shifting the relative demand for products in CER studies. We analyze how shifts in demand affect health and health care spending and demons...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Basu A,Jena AB,Philipson TJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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：:In clinical terms, a screening compliance rate of 100% may be deemed optimal in that the number of abnormalities detected is thereby maximized. This paper explores optimum compliance rates from the cost-effectiveness point of view by modelling the individual's decision to participate in the screening programme. Using ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Walker A,Whynes DK

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conduct an applied welfare economics analysis of cigarette tax avoidance. We develop an extension of the standard formula for the optimal Pigouvian corrective tax to incorporate the possibility that consumers avoid the tax by making purchases in nearby lower tax jurisdictions. To provide a key parameter for our for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： DeCicca P,Kenkel D,Liu F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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 seeks to simulate the portion of moral hazard that is due to the income transfer contained in the coinsurance price reduction. Healthcare spending of uninsured individuals from the MEPS with a priority health condition is compared with the predicted counterfactual spending of those same individuals if they ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nyman JA,Koc C,Dowd BE,McCreedy E,Trenz HM

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Criteria for initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatments (HAART) in HIV-infected patients remain a matter of debate world-wide because short-term benefits have to be balanced with costs of these therapies, and restrictions placed on future treatment options if resistant viral strains develop. On the other ha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lasserre P,Moatti JP,Soubeyran A

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws between 1949 and 1969. These law changes generate exogenous variation in year...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kemptner D,Jürges H,Reinhold S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyse the properties of optimal price adjustment to hospitals when no lump-sum transfers are allowed and when prices differ to reflect observable exogenous differences in costs. We find that: (a) when the marginal benefit from treatment is decreasing and the cost function is the power function, price adjustment f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Miraldo M,Siciliani L,Street A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the effects of a "per-episode fee limit" that was recently implemented as a cost-control policy in China's health care system. Using hospital administrative data on a rural public health insurance program in China, we find that hospital departments dynamically adjust episode fees in response to the level of...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chan MK,Zeng G

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis is consistent with cost-benefit analysis if the lifetime utility function is additive over time, multiplicative in the utility of consumption and the utility of health status, and if the utility of co...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bleichrodt H,Quiggin J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent paper in this journal Abasolo and Tsuchiya [Abasolo, I., Tsuchiya, A., 2004. Exploring social welfare functions and violation of monotonicity: an example from inequalities in health. Journal of Health Economics 23, 313-329] have strongly argued for the use of a non-monotonic health related social welfare f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dutta I

更新日期：2007-03-01 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

authors： Dusheiko M,Gravelle H,Yu N,Campbell S

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:Investigates production and cost effects of teaching in radiology departments. If students are substitutes for physicians, production costs may be less in teaching than in non-teaching hospitals for a given level of output. Empirical results for Veterans Administration hospitals suggest that teaching reduces costs for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hosek JR,Palmer AR

更新日期：1983-03-01 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 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 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

authors： Alam SA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of health care services has the unique feature that physicians do not face explicit costs for hospital inputs. This paper develops models of the production process given alternative hospital and medical staff relationships, and analyzes the impact of the change in hospital reimbursement under Medicare f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Custer WS,Moser JW,Musacchio RA,Willke RJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper performs new tests of the QALY model when health varies over time. Our tests do not involve confounding assumptions and are robust to violations of expected utility. The results support the use of QALYs at the aggregate level, i.e. in economic evaluations of health care. At the individual level, there is le...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bleichrodt H,Filko M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00