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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：:This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that (i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and (ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on both sides of the la...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lehrer SF,Pereira NS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:In many medical care markets with limited profit potential, firms often have little incentive to innovate. These include the market for rare diseases, "neglected" tropical diseases, and personalized medicine. Governments and not-for-profit organizations promote innovation in such markets but empirical evidence on the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Iizuka T,Uchida G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the effects of the reference pricing program implemented by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) in 2012. The program uses targeted cost-sharing to incentivize patient price shopping. We find that the program leads to a 10.3% increase in the use of low-price providers and red...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Whaley CM,Guo C,Brown TT

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both individual and aggregate...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van den Berg GJ,Gerdtham UG,von Hinke S,Lindeboom M,Lissdaniels J,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proponents of tort reform applied to medical malpractice argue for change partly on the premise that the threat of lawsuits has made medical care more costly. Using U.S. longitudinal data from the National Long-Term Care Survey merged with Medicare claims and other data for 1985-2000, this study assesses whether tort ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sloan FA,Shadle JH

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:This paper examines the thesis that monopsony power is an important determinant of wages in nursing labor markets. Using data from the 1985-93 Current Population Surveys, measures of relative nurse/non-nurse wage rates for 252 labor markets are constructed. Contrary to predictions from the monopsony model, no positive...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hirsch BT,Schumacher EJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：: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：:The concept of health human capital guides the statistical study of (1) health production functions, (2) derived demands for medical and behavioral health inputs, and (3) determinants of health and productivity outcomes. Health inputs are generally endogenous to health outcomes, and prices of health inputs are the mos...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schultz TP

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate whether there was a causal effect of income changes on the health satisfaction of East and West Germans in the years following reunification. Our data source is the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) between 1984 and 2002, and we fit a recently proposed fixed-effects ordinal estimator to our health mea...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Frijters P,Haisken-DeNew JP,Shields MA

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：: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 show that when health care providers have market power and engage in Cournot competition, a competitive upstream health insurance market results in over-insurance and over-priced health care. Even though consumers and firms anticipate the price interactions between these two markets - the price set in one market af...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vaithianathan R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses seven waves of British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data to examine the link between health developments while smoking (both one's own and those of other smokers in the same household) and future cigarette consumption. We find those whose health worsens when smoking smoke less in the future, and are m...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Clark A,Etilé F

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition approach using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baeten S,Van Ourti T,van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 examines factors associated with differences in managed care penetration across geographic areas. Two alternative measures of managed care penetration are considered: the percentage of revenue physicians received from managed care contracts and market survey data on enrollments in managed care plans. Result...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D,Simon CJ,White WD

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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：: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