Using a discrete choice experiment to elicit the demand for a nutritious food: willingness-to-pay for orange maize in rural Zambia.

abstract：:In a recent issue of this Journal, McRae and Tapon (1985) use the Canadian experience with compulsory patent licensing and three provincial drug reimbursement programs to evaluate post-patent barriers to entry in the pharmaceutical industry. In this paper we provide additional evidence on the influence of differing pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gorecki PK

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：: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

authors： Keeler EB,Manning WG,Wells KB

更新日期：1988-12-01 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 analyses contracts to keep down costs while maintaining quality of health services when patient demand does not reflect quality. There is then a natural role for forms of contract that have emerged during the reforms of the NHS in Britain that differ from pure fixed price or cost reimbursement contracts. Th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chalkley M,Malcomson JM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the pricing behaviour of providers of residential care for people with mental health problems. Two aspects of pricing were considered. First, are there differences between providers' market power and their actual mark-up rates (e.g. due to differences in motivation)? Second, do the differe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Forder J

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze the effect of an individual insurance mandate (Medicare Levy Surcharge) on the demand for private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. With administrative income tax return data, we show that the mandate has several distinct effects on taxpayers' behavior. First, despite the large tax penalty for not having...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stavrunova O,Yerokhin O

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Average wages from 2,275 general hospitals in metropolitan areas across the U.S. were used to test for a wage gradient descending from hospitals in the central city through those in urbanized and finally non-urbanized areas of each county-defined metropolitan area. Significant gradients were found in MSAs of all sizes...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hendricks AM

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:This article introduces a model in which individuals incur adjustment costs associated with adaptations made following changes in their health. With adjustment costs, patients' preferences for health states depend on their initial health in such a way that improvements have lower values than corresponding deterioratio...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sharma R,Stano M,Haas M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tradeoffs between health and wealth are among the most important decisions individuals make, and are central to social and economic policy. Yet, only a few studies have investigated the utility of health and wealth empirically. This paper investigates this utility function both theoretically and empirically. We conduc...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Levy M,Nir AR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations is difficult because there is a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of their reimbursement incentives and other programmatic features. We examine how variation in reimbursement incentives and administration among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spendin...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Marton J,Yelowitz A,Talbert JC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical researchers are rapidly identifying the genetic causes of many diseases. Genes that increase the risk of contracting Alzheimer's, colon and breast cancer, Huntington's, cystic fibrosis and numerous other diseases have been identified. Genetic tests can reveal an individual's probable health status many years i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Tabarrok A

更新日期：1994-03-01 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

authors： Hsieh CR,Yen LL,Liu JT,Lin CJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) was designed to spur the development of drugs for rare diseases. In principle, its design also incentivizes pharmaceutical firms to develop drugs for "rare" subdivisions of more prevalent diseases. I find that in response to this incentive, firms develop drugs for ODA-qualifying subdivisions ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Yin W

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Although the effect of time to death (TTD) on health care expenditures (HCE) has been investigated using individual level data, the most profound implications of TTD have been for the forecasting of macro-level HCE. Here we estimate the TTD model using macro-level data from the Netherlands consisting of mortality rate...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Baal PH,Wong A

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Direct and indirect standardization procedures aim at comparing differences in health or in health care expenditures between subgroups of the population after controlling for observable morbidity differences. There is a close analogy between this problem and the issue of risk adjustment in health insurance. Traditiona...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schokkaert E,Van de Voorde C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study gatekeeping physicians' referrals of patients to specialty care. We derive theoretical results when competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care more often. Second, physicians earn more by treating patients themselves, so refe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Godager G,Iversen T,Ma CT

更新日期：2015-01-01 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

authors： Trish EE,Herring BJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a simple model of health insurance with asymmetric information, where we compare two alternative ways of organizing the insurance market. Either as a competitive insurance market, where some risks remain uninsured, or as a compulsory scheme, where however, the level of reimbursement of loss i...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hansen BO,Keiding H

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:This article extends several recent contributions that have compared the physician-induced demand hypothesis to the theory of a monopoly where advertising is included as a decision variable. By introducing a standard profit-maximizing model with inducement, it derives the conditions for the optimum level of inducement...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Stano M

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:While in theory the strength of preferences for equity in health can be expressed in an 'inequality aversion parameter', in practice, analysts would have to obtain them from people's choices. We are faced with a number of methodological problems when turning to this type of empirical research. This note investigates w...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Olsen JA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model includes targeted fee increases, extended hours, performance-based initiatives, and patient enrolment. Using a long pane...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kantarevic J,Kralj B,Weinkauf D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00