Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages.

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：: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：: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：:Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examine the relationship between nutritional status, poverty, and food insecurity for household members of various ages. Our most striking result is that, while poverty is predictive of poor nutrition among preschool children, food insecurity doe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bhattacharya J,Currie J,Haider S

更新日期：2004-07-01 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 paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election years. ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Potrafke N

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:In this paper, we investigate the effect of the out-of-pocket premium on the decision to enroll in employer health insurance and other benefits plans including dental insurance, vision care, long-term care insurance, and wellness benefits. Previous estimates of the effects of premium on takeup of health insurance coul...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Royalty AB,Hagens J

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Medicaid provides health insurance for 54 million Americans. Using the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (which subtracts out-of-pocket medical expenses from family resources), we estimated the impact of eliminating Medicaid. In our counterfactual, Medicaid beneficiaries would become uninsured or gain other...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sommers BD,Oellerich D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the effect of banning broadcast advertising of alcoholic beverages. The data used in this study are a pooled time series from 17 countries for the period 1970 to 1983. The empirical results show that countries with bans on spirits advertising have about 16% lower alcohol consumption than countries ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Saffer H

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Investigates production and cost effects of teaching in radiology departments. If students are substitutes for physicians, production costs may be less in teaching than in non-teaching hospitals for a given level of output. Empirical results for Veterans Administration hospitals suggest that teaching reduces costs for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hosek JR,Palmer AR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there has been an important increase in methodological and empirical studies on health inequality, not much has been written on the theoretical foundation of health inequality measurement. We discuss several reasons why the classic welfare approach, which is the foundation of income inequality analysis, fails to...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bommier A,Stecklov G

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates a multiproduct variable cost function using data on a sample of California hospitals. The results provide useful insights into the advantages and disadvantages of flexible functional forms for cost analysis. The translog function appears to provide reasonable estimates of marginal costs when evalu...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Vita MG

更新日期：1990-06-01 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 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：: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 paper examines the impact of parental illness on children's education. We find that only father's illness decreases children's school attendance. Father's illness also has long-term impacts on child education, as it decreases children's likelihood of completing primary school and leads to fewer years of schooling...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Alam SA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 production of health care services has the unique feature that physicians do not face explicit costs for hospital inputs. This paper develops models of the production process given alternative hospital and medical staff relationships, and analyzes the impact of the change in hospital reimbursement under Medicare f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Custer WS,Moser JW,Musacchio RA,Willke RJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last time that federal excise taxes on alcoholic beverages were increased was 1991. The changes were larger than the typical state-level changes that have been used to study price effects, but the consequences have not been assessed due to the lack of a control group. Here we develop and implement a novel method f...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cook PJ,Durrance CP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals compete for patients by offering their doctors high quality services to a price war for the patients of payors? This paper uses time-series cross-sectional methods on California hospital discharge data from 1986-1994 to show the...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Melnick G,Zwanziger J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the relationship between health care expenditure, income, and other factors that are not related to income for China with pooled cross-section and time series data. To study the stationarity property of these variables, we use panel Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests that allow for struct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chou WL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. Controlling for parental income, education and social class, children who experience poor health have si...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Case A,Fertig A,Paxson C

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do people purchase health insurance? Many economists would answer that it permits purchasers to avoid risk of financial loss. This note suggests that health insurance is also demanded because it represents a mechanism for gaining access to health care that would otherwise be unaffordable. For example, although a U...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nyman JA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00