Price and welfare effects of a pharmaceutical substitution reform.

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：: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 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

authors： Bernal P,Martinez S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses recent theoretical work about group decision-making to assess the quality of decision-making by expert consensus panels. We specifically examine (1) when individual members of panels will divulge their private judgments about the decision to the panel, and (2) when the group judgment is superior to the...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gabel MJ,Shipan CR

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A necessary condition for competition to promote quality in hospital markets is that patients are sensitive to differences in hospital quality. In this paper we examine the relationship between hospital quality, as measured by publicly available quality ratings, and patient hospital choice for angioplasty using indivi...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Varkevisser M,van der Geest SA,Schut FT

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyses the redistributive effect caused by health financing and the distribution of healthcare utilization in Argentina before and during the severe 2001/2002 economic crisis. Both dramatically changed during this period: the redistributive effect became much more positive and utilization shifted from p...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cavagnero E,Bilger M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flat capitation (uniform prospective payments) makes enrolling healthy enrollees profitable to health plans. Plans with relatively generous benefits may attract the sick and fail through a premium spiral. We simulate a model of idealized managed competition to explore the effect on market performance of alternatives t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Carter G,Newhouse JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Food and Drug Administration has accelerated the approval of therapeutically novel drugs so that patients have faster access to innovative drug therapies. Little research, however, has examined the variation in risks among therapeutically novel and less novel drugs. Do drugs that represent greater novelty also ent...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Olson MK

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Economists often estimate models with a log-transformed dependent variable. The results from the log-transformed model are often retransformed back to the unlogged scale. Other studies have shown how to obtain consistent estimates on the original scale but have not provided variance equations for those estimates. In t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ai C,Norton EC

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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：: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：:This paper presents a new stylized fact about the relationship between income and childhood vaccination. It shows vaccination rates first rise but then fall as income increases. This pattern is observed in WHO country-level panel data, and in US county-level panel and individual-level repeated cross-section data. This...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sakai Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we discuss the prioritisation of healthcare projects where there is a concern about health inequalities, but the decision maker is reluctant to make explicit quantitative value judgements and the data systems only allow the measurement of health at an aggregate level. Our analysis begins with a standard ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Morton A

更新日期：2014-07-01 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 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：: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：: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：:While social networks have been examined in the context of many economic choices and outcomes, this study is the first to investigate the effects of social networks on health service utilization decisions. Networks can affect utilization decisions in many ways. They can provide information on institutional details of ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Deri C

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：: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：:EQ-5D is used in cost-effectiveness studies underlying many important health policy decisions. It comprises a survey instrument describing health states across five domains, and a system of utility values for each state. The original 3-level version of EQ-5D is being replaced with a more sensitive 5-level version but ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hernández-Alava M,Pudney S

更新日期：2017-09-01 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

authors： Colman G,Grossman M,Joyce T

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports a study that tests whether the internal consistency of the standard gamble can be improved upon by incorporating loss weighting and probability transformation parameters in the standard gamble valuation procedure. Five alternatives to the standard EU formulation are considered: (1) probability tra...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Oliver A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond and Mazumder (2011), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this effect is especially pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Ewijk R

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in examining health expenditures. In this paper, we study the behaviour of health expenditures in the G3 countries (USA, the UK, and Japan) and three European countries (the UK, Switzerland and Spain) over the period 1960-2000 from a different perspective, in tha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proponents of hospital consolidation claim that mergers lead to significant cost savings, but there is little systematic evidence backing these claims. For a large sample of hospital mergers between 2000 and 2010, I estimate difference-in-differences models that compare cost trends at acquired hospitals to cost trends...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schmitt M

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