abstract：:We test whether the generosity of employer-sponsored health insurance facilitates the exercise of market power by hospitals. We construct indices of health plan generosity and the price and volume of hospital services using data from Truven MarketScan for 601 counties from 2001 to 2007. We use variation in the industr...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baker LC,Bundorf MK,Kessler DP

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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：:A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorporating findings from the genetics and neuroscience literatures. We use a sampl...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Justin Cook C,Fletcher JM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level and distribution of patient waiting times for elective treatment are a major concern in publicly funded health care systems. Strict targets, which have specified maximum waiting times, have been introduced in the NHS over the last decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nikolova S,Sinko A,Sutton M

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：:Using variation across geographic regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977-2008 and find the same pro-cyclical patterns. Using individual-level register data for...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Haaland VF,Telle K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the impact of retiree health coverage on the labor supply of public sector workers between the ages of 55 and 64. We find that retiree health covera...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Shoven JB,Slavov SN

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Despite its salience as a regulatory tool to ensure the delivery of unprofitable medical services, cross-subsidization of services within hospital systems has been notoriously difficult to detect and quantify. We use repeated shocks to a profitable service in the market for hospital-based medical care to test for cros...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： David G,Lindrooth RC,Helmchen LA,Burns LR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the welfare impact of consumer health advisories is a thorny task. Recently, Shimshack and Ward (2010) studied how U.S. households responded to FDA's 2001 mercury-in-fish advisory. They found that the average at-risk household reduced fish consumption by 21%, resulting in a 17%-reduction in mercury exposure ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Rheinberger CM,Hammitt JK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The dynamic evolution of health and persistent relationship status pose econometric challenges to disentangling the causal effect of relationships on health from the selection effect of health on relationship choice. Using a new econometric strategy we find that marriage is not universally better for health. Rather, c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kohn JL,Averett SL

更新日期：2014-07-01 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 paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for individuals on long-term sickness absence. We use a field experiment performed by the Public Employment Service and the Social Insurance Agency in Sweden during 2008-2010, in which over 4000 participants were ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Laun L,Thoursie PS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a prospect in the medium to long term future of substantial advancements in the understanding of the relationship between disease and genetics. We consider the implications of increased information from genetic tests about predisposition to diseases from the perspective of managing health care provision under...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Filipova-Neumann L,Hoy M

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Using administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick-pay. The analysis exploits exogenous switches of family doctors occurring when physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell their patient lists. We find that family doctors have ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Markussen S,Røed K,Røgeberg O

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：:More than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, which was created in large part to improve the efficiency of health care delivery by promoting competition among private managed care plans. This paper explores the spillover effects of the Medicare Advantage program on the traditional M...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Baicker K,Chernew ME,Robbins JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:We develop a model where a genetic test reveals whether an individual has a low or high probability of developing a disease. Testing is not mandatory, but agents have to reveal their test results to the insurers, facing a discrimination risk. A costly prevention effort allows agents with a genetic predisposition to de...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bardey D,De Donder P

更新日期：2013-09-01 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 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：:The relationship between retirement and mortality is studied with a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway. A series of retirement policy changes in Norway reduced the retirement age for a group of workers but not for others. Difference-in-differences estimation based on monthly birth co...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hernaes E,Markussen S,Piggott J,Vestad OL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase liquor, around 24.6% (s.e.=5.5%) for males and 22% (s.e.=8.1%) for femal...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Conover E,Scrimgeour D

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:This study asks why hospitals provide direct financial support to nursing schools and faculty. This support is striking because nursing education is clearly general, clearly paid by the firm, and information asymmetries appear minimal. Using AHA and survey data, I find hospitals employing a greater share of their MSA'...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Benson A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of an UK extra-cost disability benefit for older people, Attendance Allowance, is analyzed using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. First, a binary model of benefit participation is used to investigate whether receipt is responsive to the onset of disability. Second, matching esti...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Zantomio F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces the discrete choice model-paradigm of Random Regret Minimisation (RRM) to the field of health economics. The RRM is a regret-based model that explores a driver of choice different from the traditional utility-based Random Utility Maximisation (RUM). The RRM approach is based on the idea that, whe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Boeri M,Longo A,Grisolía JM,Hutchinson WG,Kee F

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Policymakers in countries around the world are faced with rising health care costs and are debating ways to reform health care to reduce expenditures. Estimates of price elasticity of expenditure are a key component for predicting expenditures under alternative policies. Using unique individual-level data compiled fro...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Duarte F

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:A necessary condition for competition to promote quality in hospital markets is that patients are sensitive to differences in hospital quality. In this paper we examine the relationship between hospital quality, as measured by publicly available quality ratings, and patient hospital choice for angioplasty using indivi...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Varkevisser M,van der Geest SA,Schut FT

更新日期：2012-03-01 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