Below is a list of recently published working papers and discussion papers from the field of health economics. If you’d like to discuss one of the papers for a #HEJC meeting, please complete the form at the bottom of the page.
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- Valuing Health Technology – New Value Spaces For Personal Health Systems To Support Active Aging
- Health Consequences of Transitioning to Retirement and Social Participation: Results based on JSTAR panel data
- Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and The Role of Asset Testing
- Use of Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to estimate the EQ-5D utility scores from EORTC QLQ data in myeloma for use in cost effectiveness analysis
- Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility
- Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
- Spousal Health Effects – the Role of Selection
- The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care: An International Perspective
- Impact of Mortality-Based Performance Measures on Hospital Pricing: the Case of Colon Cancer Surgeries
- Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
- Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence from China’s Essential Medications List Policy
- Putting the Patient in Patient Reported Outcomes: A Robust Methodology for Health Outcomes Assessment
- The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments
- Financial Literacy and Consumer Choice of Health Insurance: Evidence from Low-Income Populations in the United States
- Overcoming Barriers to Health Service Access: A Study of Lucknow Health Facilities Using TQM
- A Portfolio Approach to Mortality Shocks and Fertility Choice: Theory and Evidence from Africa
- The Wear and Tear on Health: What is the Role of Occupation?
- Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy
- Do fixed patent terms distort innovation? Evidence from cancer clinical trials
- The Impact of Mothers’ Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health
- Happy and healthy: a joint model of health and life satisfaction
- What Do We Know About Non-Clinical Interventions for Preventable and Treatable Childhood Diseases in Developing Countries
- Health Care Reform, Efficiency of Health Insurers, and Optimal Health Insurance Markets
- Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden
- Distance as a barrier to health care access in South Africa
- Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime
- Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries: An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis using a Panel Analysis
- Attributing a monetary value to patients’ time: A contingent valuation approach
- How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
- Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices
- Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk
- The Impact of Insurance and HIV Treatment Technology on HIV Testing
- Bias in Measuring Smoking Behavior
- The Trade and Health Effects of Tobacco Regulations
- Does Early Life Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Permanently Harm Childhood Health? Evidence from Cigarette Tax Hikes
- The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony
- Inequality of Opportunity in Health Care in China: Suggestion on the Construction of the Urban-Rural Integrated Medical Insurance System
- Satisfaction of Patients in Health Care: Some Critical Issues with Research Projects that Measure Satisfaction
- Adaptability and innovation in healthcare facilities. Lessons from the past for future developments
- The Effects of Smoking Bans on Self-Assessed Health: Evidence from Germany
- An Empirical Model of Drug Detailing: Dynamic Competition and Policy Implications
- Self-Employment and Health: Barriers or Benefits?
- Measuring the Full Value-Effect of an Event: The Healthcare Reform Act
- Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
- Comparing Methods for Imputing Employer Health Insurance Contributions in the Current Population Survey
- Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK
- Who Pays for Obesity? Evidence from Health Insurance Benefit Mandates
- US Male Obesity from 1800-2000: A Long Term Perspective
- Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulations
- Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Non-Elderly
- The Response of Drug Expenditures to Non-Linear Contract Design: Evidence from Medicare Part D
- Health Insurance for “Humans”: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare
- Perverse Reverse Price Competition: Average Wholesale Prices and Medicaid Pharmaceutical Spending
- Is the Affordable Care Act Different from Romneycare? A Labor Economics Perspective
- Average Marginal Labor Income Tax Rates under the Affordable Care Act
- Conspicuous Consumption, Conspicuous Health, and Optimal Taxation
