Changes in compulsory schooling and the causal effect of education on health: evidence from Germany.

abstract：:We examine the effects of diverse dimensions of hospital quality - including consumers' perceptions of unobserved attributes - on future hospital choice. We utilize consumers' stated preference weights to obtain hospital-specific estimates of perceptions about unmeasured attributes such as reputation. We report three ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Jung K,Feldman R,Scanlon D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement unit disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), used in recent years to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors on human populations, is grounded on cogent economic and ethical principles and can guide policies toward delivering more cost-effective and equitable health care. DALYs follo...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Murray CJ,Acharya AK

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：: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

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 develops a neoclassical utility maximization model of physician behavior in which the physician determines the price of physician office and hospital visits, the utilization rates for physician office and hospital visits and hospital days, and the resources and physician time inputs in the production of vis...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McCombs JS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent article in this journal Lee argued that indirect medical costs should be ignored in economic evaluations. To reach this conclusion, Lee uses an unrealistic and uncommon budget constraint. This comment highlights a number of methodological problems in Lee's analysis. Moreover, it highlights that looking at ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Feenstra TL,van Baal PH,Gandjour A,Brouwer WB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of an eight-country comparative study of equity in the delivery of health care. Equity is taken to mean that persons in equal need of health care should be treated the same, irrespective of their income. Two methods are used to investigate inequity: an index of inequity based on standar...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Doorslaer E,Wagstaff A,Calonge S,Christiansen T,Gerfin M,Gottschalk P,Janssen R,Lachaud C,Leu RE,Nolan B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reexamines the effect of the business cycle on alcohol consumption using U.S. state-level analysis introduced by Rhum [Ruhm, C.J., 1995. Economic conditions and alcohol problems. Journal of Health Economics 14, 583-603]. Using an extended panel, this analysis finds that Ruhm's estimates are biased and incon...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Freeman DG

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:In this paper we estimate long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version wher...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schmitz H,Westphal M

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:I study a managed health service market where differentiated providers compete for consumers by choosing multiple service qualities, and where copayments that consumers pay and payments that providers receive for services are set by a payer. The optimal regulation scheme is two-sided. On the demand side, it justifies ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mak HY

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals and patient severities. The answer to the first question is ambiguous and depends on factors rel...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Siciliani L,Straume OR

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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

authors： Shoven JB,Slavov SN

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute care hospitals have long been viewed as multi-product 'firms', a characteristic which has necessitated special adjustments for cost analyses of this sector. Output mix adjustment has generally had an ad hoc flavour, with service/facility proxies and patient mix variables often being used interchangeably. Where s...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barer ML

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of hospital competition have found that greater competition leads to higher hospital costs. In this paper we report how the behavior of California's hospitals has changed since the introduction of programs intended to contain the rate of increase of hospital costs. Using data that cover the period pre...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zwanziger J,Melnick GA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between schizophrenia and employment. We use longitudinal register data and show a considerable drop in the employment rate for people with schizophrenia six years before the first treatment at a psychiatric facility. After the first treatment, the employment rate stabilizes at 18%...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Greve J,Nielsen LH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit exogenous variation in years of completed college induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college on adult mortality. Our estimates imply that increasing college attainment from the level of the state at the 25th percentile of the education distribution to that of...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Buckles K,Hagemann A,Malamud O,Morrill M,Wozniak A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a game of incomplete information we analyze the consequences of giving an employer access to imperfect genetic information about his employees. The employer chooses whether to invest in the employee and the employee chooses a life style. We derive the condition for markets of information services to exist and the c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Holm HJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit lottery-determined admission to dental school to estimate the payoffs to the study of dentistry in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The pay...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ketel N,Leuven E,Oosterbeek H,van der Klaauw B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most health care evaluations today still assume expected utility even though the descriptive deficiencies of expected utility are well known. Prospect theory is the dominant descriptive alternative for expected utility. This paper tests whether prospect theory leads to better health evaluations than expected utility. ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Abellan-Perpiñan JM,Bleichrodt H,Pinto-Prades JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 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

authors： Short PF,Taylor AK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of an UK extra-cost disability benefit for older people, Attendance Allowance, is analyzed using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. First, a binary model of benefit participation is used to investigate whether receipt is responsive to the onset of disability. Second, matching esti...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zantomio F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing the adoption of generic drugs has the potential to improve static efficiency in a health system without harming pharmaceutical innovation. However, very little is known about the timing of generic adoption and diffusion. No prior study has empirically examined the differential launch times of generics acros...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Costa-Font J,McGuire A,Varol N

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics research. We introduce a controlled laboratory experiment to analyse the influence of incentives from fee-for-service and capitation payments on physicians' supply of medical services. In our experiment, ph...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hennig-Schmidt H,Selten R,Wiesen D

更新日期：2011-07-01 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