abstract：:This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. Based on data for the white populatio...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Kotschy R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We experimentally evaluated the effects of in-kind team incentives on health worker performance in El Salvador, with 38 out of 75 community health teams randomly assigned to performance incentives over a 12-month period. All teams received monitoring, performance feedback and recognition for their achievements allowin...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Bernal P,Martinez S

更新日期：2020-03-01 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

abstract：:While recent research has shown that cannabis access laws can reduce the use of prescription opioids, the effect of these laws on opioid use is not well understood for all dimensions of use and for the general United States population. Analyzing a dataset of over 1.5 billion individual opioid prescriptions between 201...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McMichael BJ,Van Horn RL,Viscusi WK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late childhood and adolescence is a critical time for social and emotional development. Over the past two decades, this life stage has been hugely affected by the almost universal adoption of the internet as a source of information, communication, and entertainment. We use a large representative sample of over 6300 ch...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： McDool E,Powell P,Roberts J,Taylor K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper builds and estimates a dynamic choice model to examine the impact on health insurance selection of Chile's GES health care reform. This program provides guarantees in coverage and benefits to several health conditions in the context of a market where public and private health insurers co-exist. Structural d...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Pardo C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intergenerational transmission of human capital from parents to offspring is widely documented. However, whether there are upward spillovers from children to parents remains understudied. This paper uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to estimate the causal impact of educational attainmen...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ma M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a model where hospitals compete on quality under fixed prices to investigate how hospital competition affects (i) quality differences between hospitals, and as a result, (ii) health inequalities across hospitals and patient severities. The answer to the first question is ambiguous and depends on factors rel...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Siciliani L,Straume OR

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exploit lottery-determined admission to dental school to estimate the payoffs to the study of dentistry in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The pay...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Ketel N,Leuven E,Oosterbeek H,van der Klaauw B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines whether Dutch disability insurance reforms have helped or hindered employment opportunities of workers that are facing unanticipated shocks to their health. An important component of the reforms was to make employers responsible for paying sickness benefits and to strengthen their sickness monitori...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hullegie P,Koning P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the short- and long-term price effects of the number of competing firms, using panel-data on 1303 distinct pharmaceutical markets for 78 months within a reference-price system. We use actual transaction prices in an institutional setting with little scope for non-price competition and where simultaneity probl...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Granlund D,Bergman MA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the effects of a "per-episode fee limit" that was recently implemented as a cost-control policy in China's health care system. Using hospital administrative data on a rural public health insurance program in China, we find that hospital departments dynamically adjust episode fees in response to the level of...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chan MK,Zeng G

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tiered and narrow provider networks are mechanisms implemented by health plans to reduce health care costs. The benefits of narrow networks for consumers usually come in the form of lower premiums in exchange for access to fewer providers. Narrow networks may disrupt continuity of care and access to usual sources of c...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Higuera L,Carlin CS,Dowd B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a widely-implemented model for improving primary care, emphasizing care coordination, information technology, and process improvements. However, its treatment as an undifferentiated intervention in policy evaluation obscures meaningful variation in implementation. This heter...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： David G,Saynisch PA,Smith-McLallen A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper measures the extent to which the price of nursing home care affects a potential substitute living arrangement: coresidence with adult children. Exploiting variation in state Medicaid income "spend-down" provisions over time, I find that living in a state with a spend-down provision decreases the prevalence ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mommaerts C

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article assesses the impact of dentist remuneration on the incidence of potentially harmful dental X-rays. We use unique panel data which provide details of 1.3 million treatment claims by Scottish NHS dentists made between 1998 and 2007. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both patients and dentists we e...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Chalkley M,Listl S

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:I study a managed health service market where differentiated providers compete for consumers by choosing multiple service qualities, and where copayments that consumers pay and payments that providers receive for services are set by a payer. The optimal regulation scheme is two-sided. On the demand side, it justifies ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Mak HY

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study seeks to simulate the portion of moral hazard that is due to the income transfer contained in the coinsurance price reduction. Healthcare spending of uninsured individuals from the MEPS with a priority health condition is compared with the predicted counterfactual spending of those same individuals if they ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Nyman JA,Koc C,Dowd BE,McCreedy E,Trenz HM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a new stylized fact about the relationship between income and childhood vaccination. It shows vaccination rates first rise but then fall as income increases. This pattern is observed in WHO country-level panel data, and in US county-level panel and individual-level repeated cross-section data. This...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Sakai Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. However, children may also affect their parents' human capital. Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lundborg P,Majlesi K

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both individual and aggregate...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： van den Berg GJ,Gerdtham UG,von Hinke S,Lindeboom M,Lissdaniels J,Sundquist J,Sundquist K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the effects of the reference pricing program implemented by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) in 2012. The program uses targeted cost-sharing to incentivize patient price shopping. We find that the program leads to a 10.3% increase in the use of low-price providers and red...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Whaley CM,Guo C,Brown TT

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:EQ-5D is used in cost-effectiveness studies underlying many important health policy decisions. It comprises a survey instrument describing health states across five domains, and a system of utility values for each state. The original 3-level version of EQ-5D is being replaced with a more sensitive 5-level version but ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Hernández-Alava M,Pudney S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper tests the effectiveness of performance pay and bonuses among government childcare workers in India. In a controlled study of 160 ICDS centers serving over 4000 children, we randomly assign workers to either fixed bonuses or payments based on the nutritional status of children in their care, and also collect...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Singh P,Masters WA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many medical care markets with limited profit potential, firms often have little incentive to innovate. These include the market for rare diseases, "neglected" tropical diseases, and personalized medicine. Governments and not-for-profit organizations promote innovation in such markets but empirical evidence on the ...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Iizuka T,Uchida G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of two vaccination policies - simple non-binding recommendations to vaccinate versus mandates requiring vaccination prior to childcare or kindergarten attendance - in the context of the only disease whose institutional features permit a credible examination of both: hepati...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Lawler EC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proponents of hospital consolidation claim that mergers lead to significant cost savings, but there is little systematic evidence backing these claims. For a large sample of hospital mergers between 2000 and 2010, I estimate difference-in-differences models that compare cost trends at acquired hospitals to cost trends...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Schmitt M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper estimates the effect of US public health insurance programs for children on health. Previous work in this area has typically focused on the relationship between current program eligibility and current health. But because health is a stock variable which reflects the cumulative influence of health inputs, it...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Thompson O

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:This paper studies the design of long term care (LTC) insurance contracts in the presence of ex post moral hazard. While this problem bears some similarity with the study of health insurance (Blomqvist, 1997) the significance of informal LTC affects the problem in several crucial ways. It introduces the potential crow...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Cremer H,Lozachmeur JM,Pestieau P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a patient arrives at the Emergency Room with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the provider on duty must quickly decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992 to 2014, we decompose practice style into two components: The provider's probability of conduct...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Currie J,MacLeod WB,Van Parys J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a measure of household exposure to particularly onerous medical expenses. The measure can be decomposed into the probability that medical expenditure exceeds a threshold, the loss due to predictably low consumption of other goods if it does and the further loss arising from the volatility of medical expense...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Flores G,O'Donnell O

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatality risk-money tradeoff that is the value of a statistical life (VSL) may vary with the nature of the fatality event. While all fatalities involve loss of future life expectancy, the morbidity effects and their duration may differ. This article analyzes fatality risks accompanied by morbidity effects of diffe...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Gentry EP,Viscusi WK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the rapidly aging population, relatively little is known about how cost sharing affects the elderly's medical spending. Exploiting longitudinal claims data and the drastic reduction of coinsurance from 30% to 10% at age 70 in Japan, we find that the elderly's demand responses are heterogeneous in ways that hav...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Fukushima K,Mizuoka S,Yamamoto S,Iizuka T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the impact of trans fat bans on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates. Several New York State jurisdictions have restricted the use of ingredients containing artificial trans fat in food service establishments. The resulting within-county variation over time and the differential timing of th...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Restrepo BJ,Rieger M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present findings from a field experiment conducted at 40 elementary schools involving 8000 children and 400,000 child-day observations, which tested whether providing short-run incentives can create habit formation in children. Over a 3- or 5-week period, students received an incentive for eating a serving of fruit...

journal_title：Journal of health economics

authors： Loewenstein G,Price J,Volpp K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

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