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 examine whether the availability of subsidized health insurance to the non-working population in Taiwan affected the labor force participation of married women. Our empirical identification exploits the fact that such insurance was first made available to wives of government employees, before being made universally...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chou YJ,Staiger D

更新日期：2001-03-01 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 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：:Economists often estimate models with a log-transformed dependent variable. The results from the log-transformed model are often retransformed back to the unlogged scale. Other studies have shown how to obtain consistent estimates on the original scale but have not provided variance equations for those estimates. In t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ai C,Norton EC

更新日期：2000-09-01 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

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：:Most employees contribute towards the cost of employer-sponsored insurance, despite tax laws that favor zero contributions. Contribution levels vary markedly across firms, and the average contribution (as a percentage of the premium) has increased over time. We offer a novel explanation for these facts: employers rais...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D,Spier KE,Baker L

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 paper reexamines the effect of the business cycle on alcohol consumption using U.S. state-level analysis introduced by Rhum [Ruhm, C.J., 1995. Economic conditions and alcohol problems. Journal of Health Economics 14, 583-603]. Using an extended panel, this analysis finds that Ruhm's estimates are biased and incon...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Freeman DG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of treatment costs is important in the evaluation of medical interventions. Accurate cost estimation is problematic, when cost records are incomplete. Methods from the survival analysis literature have been proposed for estimating costs using available data. In this article, we clarify assumptions necessar...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Etzioni RD,Feuer EJ,Sullivan SD,Lin D,Hu C,Ramsey SD

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：: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 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：: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：:Flat capitation (uniform prospective payments) makes enrolling healthy enrollees profitable to health plans. Plans with relatively generous benefits may attract the sick and fail through a premium spiral. We simulate a model of idealized managed competition to explore the effect on market performance of alternatives t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Keeler EB,Carter G,Newhouse JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses contracts to keep down costs while maintaining quality of health services when patient demand does not reflect quality. There is then a natural role for forms of contract that have emerged during the reforms of the NHS in Britain that differ from pure fixed price or cost reimbursement contracts. Th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chalkley M,Malcomson JM

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The friction cost method has been proposed as an alternative to the human-capital approach of estimating indirect costs. We argue that the friction cost method is based on implausible assumptions not supported by neoclassical economic theory. Furthermore consistently applying the friction cost method would mean that t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Johannesson M,Karlsson G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we estimate three different discrete choice models of provider choice using data from the rural District of Ouidah in Bénin. These three model are: Multinomial Logit (ML); (2) Independent Multinomial Probit (IMP); (3) Multinomial Probit (MP). A comparison of IMP and MP allows us to reject the independenc...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bolduc D,Lacroix G,Muller C

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Estimates of the surplus loss due to physician practice variation measure the area under the 'shifted' demand curve. This method is valid only if the unshifted demand curve is derived form the distribution of true(ex post) values of care. If the unshifted demand curve does not reflect the true value of care, then the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Dranove D

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Despite twenty years of work on supplier-induced demand (SID) there has been little discussion or investigation of how inducement affects the health of patients. We develop a conceptual framework for SID which includes the clinical effectiveness of the health services utilized as well as the effectiveness of the agenc...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Labelle R,Stoddart G,Rice T

更新日期：1994-10-01 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 paper responds to Culyer and Wagstaff's (CW) and Buckingham's (B) arguments. We refute their claim about the equivalence of HYEs and QALYs; they fail to distinguish between choice under uncertainty and under certainty. CW assume that all individuals have a specific form of utility function, which yields their con...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gafni A,Birch S,Mehrez A

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:This paper presents the results of an eight-country comparative study of equity in the delivery of health care. Equity is taken to mean that persons in equal need of health care should be treated the same, irrespective of their income. Two methods are used to investigate inequity: an index of inequity based on standar...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van Doorslaer E,Wagstaff A,Calonge S,Christiansen T,Gerfin M,Gottschalk P,Janssen R,Lachaud C,Leu RE,Nolan B

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the growing literature on economic evaluation of health care programmes, little attention has been paid to the theoretical foundations of cost-effectiveness and cost utility analyses and the validity of the decision rules adopted as methods of achieving the stated goals. We show that although applications of t...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Birch S,Gafni A

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:The determinants of the frequency of Canadian malpractice claims, the proportion of claims that result in payment, and the severity of these claims are examined. Inter-specialty variation in the frequency of malpractice claims is almost entirely related to the differential performance of major surgery. Various legal d...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Coyte PC,Dewees DN,Trebilcock MJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：: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：:This paper analyzes how economic factors (relative expected earnings, relative expected hours worked, and relative length of training period) affect the distribution of medical residents across specialties. The results show that the percent of residents in a given specialty changes more than proportionately when relat...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McKay NL

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00