Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 1996"

TL;DR: Both ordinary and IV estimates indicate that increases in income significantly improve mental and physical health but increase the prevalence of alcohol consumption.

TL;DR: A study which compared a "props" and a "no props" variant of each method suggested that both non props variants might be susceptable to framing effects and that TTP props outperformed SG props.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of beer taxes and a variety of alcohol control policies on motor vehicle fatality rates and found that higher beer taxes are associated with reductions in crash deaths.

TL;DR: This paper examines this trade-off empirically by estimating both the demand for health insurance and thedemand for health services by relying on data from a randomized controlled trial of cost-sharing's effects on the use of health services and on the health status for a general, non-elderly population.

TL;DR: An important role for public health policy in eliminating the rural-urban disparities in health status and particularly in improving the health status of rural children and reducing their mortality rates is suggested.

TL;DR: The analysis shows that both reimbursement approach and level affect nursing home quality, as measured by case-mix adjusted staff to resident ratios, and staffing ratios have a significant impact on resident outcomes, and these impacts vary by professional category of staff.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural estimates of the relationship between measures of problem drinking and measures of employment and unemployment were presented, based on the 1988 Alcohol Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey.

TL;DR: A methodology for disentangling effects of moral hazard effect, selection effect, and practice-style effect is developed and implemented using a panel data set of Medicaid psychiatric discharges in New Hampshire.

TL;DR: Two different kinds of changes, sudden or 'blip' changes and persistent changes, respectively, are considered within a model in which both the marginal rate of time preference and the survival probability are age-dependent.

TL;DR: This study analyzes the interactive effects of oligopoly pricing, state taxation, and anti-smoking regulations on retail cigarette prices by state, using panel data for the 50 US states between 1960 and 1990.

TL;DR: This paper makes use of established optimization techniques to demonstrate that a general mathematical programming framework can accommodate much more complex information regarding returns to scale, partial and complete indivisibility and program interdependence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on abortion rates by state from 1974-1988 to estimate two-stage least squares models with fixed state and year effects, and found that restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion are correlated with lower abortion rates in-state and higher rates among nearby states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion and bearing a child, and show that the response is concentrated among the low-income population.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that access to information about laparoscopic cholecystectomy influenced surgeons' adoption behavior, and that externalities in hospitals may have hastened the diffusion of the procedure.

TL;DR: This study investigates the capacity of hospitals to vary the intensity of their services based on patients' expected sources of payment and finds that payer-specific marginal costs generally reflect payer generosity.

TL;DR: Three different discrete choice models of provider choice using data from the rural District of Ouidah in Bénin are estimated, casting some doubt on the validity of the previous findings and policy recommendations that are typically based on the ML specification.

TL;DR: It is found that HMOs benefit from scale economies and there are scope diseconomies associated with providing both non-Medicare and Medicare products.

TL;DR: The paper finds that variability in length ofStay is greatest in the over-65 age group, and a model is proposed in which the length of stay is allowed to vary according to patient characteristics, the local supply of NHS care, and the local pressure on NHS resources, other non-NHS health care supply factors.

TL;DR: In this note the veil of ignorance approach is tested as a basis for empirically determining the shape of the social welfare function for QALYs.

TL;DR: Various ways to regulate the health insurance market are looked at and whether they provide an answer to the problem of adverse selection are asked.

TL;DR: Logistic regression models test whether physician demand for leisure affects both total and unplanned cesarean section rates, after controlling for relevant clinical variables, and find time-dependent dummy variables related to leisure are significant predictors of bothTotal and un planned c-sections.

TL;DR: The appropriateness of the constant rate discounted utility model is examined, and it is argued that the model fails both normatively and descriptively as a representation of individual intertemporal preferences for health outcomes.

TL;DR: The estimated results suggest that anti-smoking campaigns have a significantly positive effect on the public's health knowledge, and this health knowledge in turn, has a significantly negative effect on smoking participation.

TL;DR: The results suggest that economies of scale provide a strong justification for mergers only in the case of relatively small HMOs, and economies of scope do not explain the increasing HMO enrollment of public enrollees.

TL;DR: Evaluating the race-specific effects of participation in New Jersey's HealthStart program on birthweight and newborn hospitalization costs in 1989 and 1990 indicates increased birthweights, lower newborn hospitalizations costs and reduced rates of low birth weight and very low birthweight for blacks.

TL;DR: It is found that South Carolina's parent consent statute is associated with a decline of 10 percentage points in the probability of abortion among non-black minors of 16 years of age, and the impact of parental involvement laws on the pregnancy resolution of minors is not large.

TL;DR: Results suggest that availability of cardiac catheterization has a strong, significant effect on the choice of hospital, even after controlling for other quality characteristics, but the effect appears confined to those patients whose diagnosis indicates some probability of needing the service.