Econometric modelling of multiple self-reports of health states: The switch from EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L in evaluating drug therapies for rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：:In this paper we discuss the prioritisation of healthcare projects where there is a concern about health inequalities, but the decision maker is reluctant to make explicit quantitative value judgements and the data systems only allow the measurement of health at an aggregate level. Our analysis begins with a standard ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Morton A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I study the interplay among competition, contractual commitment, income risk, and saving and borrowing in insuring consumers against both short-term healthcare expenses and longer-term changes in health status. Examining different combinations of firms' ability to commit to long-term contracts, consumers' access to cr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Wiseman T

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of alcohol and traffic policies in reducing automobile crashes and fatalities, but only a few have analyzed the impact of state-specific policies on motorcycle safety. Given the growing popularity and inherent safety risks of motorcycle riding, this study provides a com...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： French MT,Gumus G,Homer JF

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：:We conduct an applied welfare economics analysis of cigarette tax avoidance. We develop an extension of the standard formula for the optimal Pigouvian corrective tax to incorporate the possibility that consumers avoid the tax by making purchases in nearby lower tax jurisdictions. To provide a key parameter for our for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： DeCicca P,Kenkel D,Liu F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examine the relationships between health care visits to general practitioners, public and private sector specialists using data from Italy, which has a mixed public-private health care system. We develop a simultaneous equations model that allows for the discreteness of measures of utilization and es...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Atella V,Deb P

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:In this paper, we propose a flexible "two-part" random effects model (Olsen and Schafer, 2001; Tooze et al., 2002) for correlated medical cost data. Typically, medical cost data are right-skewed, involve a substantial proportion of zero values, and may exhibit heteroscedasticity. In many cases, such data are also obta...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Liu L,Strawderman RL,Cowen ME,Shih YC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in examining health expenditures. In this paper, we study the behaviour of health expenditures in the G3 countries (USA, the UK, and Japan) and three European countries (the UK, Switzerland and Spain) over the period 1960-2000 from a different perspective, in tha...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Narayan PK

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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：:Empirical studies of the diffusion of innovations have not addressed adequately econometric problems that are characteristic of such analyses. Reanalysis of data for five innovations using an estimator with desirable statistical properties results in a considerably revised estimate of the impact of prospective reimbur...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lee RH,Waldman DM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The price effects of the Swedish pharmaceutical substitution reform are analyzed using data for a panel of all pharmaceutical product sold in Sweden in 1997-2007. The price reduction due to the reform was estimated to average 10% and was found to be significantly larger for brand-name pharmaceuticals than for generics...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Granlund D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waiting times for hospital care are a significant issue in the UK National Health Service (NHS). The reforms of the health service in 1990 gave a subset of family doctors (GP fundholders) both the ability to choose the hospital where their patients were treated and the means to pay for some services. One of the key fa...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Propper C,Croxson B,Shearer A

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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 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：:Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond and Mazumder (2011), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this effect is especially pr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Ewijk R

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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 article investigates the impact of unions on the wages of hospital workers. Our OLS findings agree with previous OLS studies--unions increase registered nurses' (RNs) wages by five percent and by about eight to ten percent for other hospital workers. By contrast, we find (after correcting for selectivity bias in ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Adamache KW,Sloan FA

更新日期：1982-05-01 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

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：: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