Price regulation and relative delays in generic drug adoption.

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：: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：: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：:The noncooperative character of resource allocation in a national health service may contribute to excessive waiting lists. A theory of hospital waiting lists is derived from this idea. Waiting lists imply loss of efficiency; the hospital's resources are drawn away from medical work. Although there is scope for Pareto...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Iversen T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in predicting differences in life expectancy using data from a large sample of children collected in 16 locations in England and Scotland in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life mo...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Frijters P,Hatton TJ,Martin RM,Shields MA

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Reform proposals of health care systems in several countries have advocated variations of a risk adjustment/capitation system. These proposals face a serious objection: incentives to risk selection are prevalent in the system. By now, considerable literature has been devoted to finding ways of mitigating, if not elimi...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Barros PP

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Using detailed panel data on local alcohol policy changes in Texas, this paper tests whether the effect of these changes on alcohol-related accidents depends on whether the policy change involves where the alcohol is consumed and the type of alcohol consumed. After controlling for both county and year fixed effects, w...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baughman R,Conlin M,Dickert-Conlin S,Pepper J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicare claims for elderly admitted for psychiatric care were used to estimate the impact of hospital profit status on costs, length of stay (LOS), and rehospitalizations. No evidence was found that not-for-profits (NFPs) treated sicker patients or had fewer rehospitalizations. For-profits (FPs) actually treated poor...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ettner SL,Hermann RC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimates the impact of the price of alcoholic beverages on latent dimensions of current alcohol dependence and abuse. A three-part econometric model is used to estimate the impact of price on three latent dimensions (factors). For heavier drinking, the estimated price elasticity is -1.325 (P = 0.027); for ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Farrell S,Manning WG,Finch MD

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:This paper considers the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses, I update earlier state-level analyses of mortality and infant health and then consider how th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lindo JM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of alcohol regulation on physical child abuse. Given the positive relationship between alcohol consumption and violence, and the negative relationship between consumption and price, the principal hypothesis to be tested is that an increase in the price of alcohol wil...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Markowitz S,Grossman M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many health risks are ambiguous in the sense that reliable and credible information about these risks is unavailable. In health economics, ambiguity is usually handled through sensitivity analysis, which implicitly assumes that people are neutral towards ambiguity. However, empirical evidence suggests that people are ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Berger L,Bleichrodt H,Eeckhoudt L

更新日期：2013-05-01 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 study uses data on 8561 elderly respondents from the 1991 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to examine adverse selection in the supplemental private insurance market. Logit models of supplemental insurance choices provided modest but mixed evidence of self-selection on the basis of observable health status. Wea...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ettner SL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graduated driver licensing (GDL) is a critical policy tool for potentially improving teenage driving while reducing teen accident exposure. While previous studies demonstrated that GDL reduces teenage involvement in fatal crashes, much remains unanswered. We explore the mechanisms through which GDL influences accident...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Karaca-Mandic P,Ridgeway G

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:One important motive for deregulating social health insurance is to encourage product innovation. For the first time, the cost savings achieved by non-US managed care plans that are attributable to product innovation are estimated, using a novel approach. Panel data from a major Swiss health insurer permits to infer h...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lehmann H,Zweifel P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an application of the Duclos et al. [Duclos, J.-Y., Jalbert, V., Araar A., 2003. Classical horizontal inequity and reranking: an integrated approach. Research on Economic Inequality 10, 65-100] decomposition to an analysis of the 1998 Swiss health system financing. We see that in addition to measur...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bilger M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Who pays the healthcare costs associated with obesity? Among workers, this is largely a question of the incidence of the costs of employer-sponsored coverage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we find that the incremental healthcare costs associated wit...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bhattacharya J,Bundorf MK

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Previous work suggests but cannot prove that education improves health behaviors. We exploit a randomized intervention that increased schooling (and reduced working) among male students in the Dominican Republic, by providing information on the returns to schooling. We find that treated youths were much less likely to...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Jensen R,Lleras-Muney A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Youth smoking is an important target for public policy. The implicit assumption behind targeting youth is that policies that reduce youth smoking initiation will reduce lifetime smoking propensities. This assumption has never been tested empirically. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Glied S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing data from a clinical trial and an econometric model incorporating the impact of a medical intervention and regression to the mean, we present evidence supporting the hypotheses that for chronically depressed individuals: (i) the level of perceived at-work performance is negatively related to the severity of ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Berndt ER,Finkelstein SN,Greenberg PE,Howland RH,Keith A,Rush AJ,Russell J,Keller MB

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:This study investigates the lasting health effects of leaving school in a bad economy. Three empirical patterns motivate this study: Leaving school in a bad economy has persistent and negative career effects, career and health outcomes are correlated, and fluctuations in contemporaneous economic conditions affect heal...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Maclean JC

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a field experiment comparing hypothetical and real purchase decisions for a pharmacist provided asthma management program among 172 subjects with asthma. Subjects received either a dichotomous choice contingent valuation question or were given the opportunity to actually enroll in the program. Three diffe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Blumenschein K,Johannesson M,Yokoyama KK,Freeman PR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the causal effect of the National Kidney Registry (NKR), the largest national kidney-exchange network in the U.S., on kidney-exchange outcomes. Analyzing a unique database hosted by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) that contains information on all kidney donors, wait-listed candidates,...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ghanbariamin R,Chung BW

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00