Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2003"

TL;DR: The research and development costs of 68 randomly selected new drugs were obtained from a survey of 10 pharmaceutical firms and used to estimate the average pre-tax cost of new drug development.

TL;DR: There is a counter-cyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and males, and there is some suggestion that mental health may be procyclical, in sharp contrast to physical well-being.

TL;DR: This article found that a child is more likely to be overweight if his/her mother worked more hours per week over the child's life than a non-working mother, and that it is higher socioeconomic status mothers whose work intensity is particularly deleterious for their children's overweight status.

TL;DR: The interval regression approach, which exploits a mapping from the empirical distribution function (EDF) of HUI into SAH, outperforms the other approaches and can be extended to allow for differences in SAH thresholds across different groups of people and to measuring and decomposing 'pure' health inequality.

TL;DR: It is shown that adverse shocks to individual health stocks predict individual retirement behaviour among workers aged from 50 until state pension age, and responses of economic activity to constructed health measures with that arising using direct indicators of functional limitations and specific health problems.

TL;DR: The costs borne by both male and female carers in terms of their forgone formal employment opportunities are investigated and it is found that the motivation for lower employment participation is not the same for men as it is for women.

TL;DR: Three possible mechanisms: prejudice of doctors in the form of being less willing to interact with members of minority groups, clinical uncertainty associated with doctors' differential interpretation of symptoms from minority patients or from doctor's distinct priors across races, and stereotypes doctors hold about health-related behavior of minority patients are studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use four waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to analyze the impact of wealth upon an individual's health status and conclude that the causal relationship running from wealth to health may not be as strong as first appears.

TL;DR: It is found that unemployment significantly increases therisk of suicides and the risk of dying from "other diseases" but has no significant effect on cancer mortality, cardiovascular mortality or deaths due to "other external causes" (motor vehicle accidents, accidents and homicides).

TL;DR: The calculation of world height inequality indicates that, in contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is the source of most inequality, rather than the differences between countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the experiences of several states that have adopted comprehensive tobacco control programs and reported estimates from econometric analyses of the impact of tobacco control expenditures on aggregate tobacco use in all states and in selected states with comprehensive programs.

TL;DR: The study shows that both types of financial pressures adversely affect short-term health outcomes, but do not affect patient survival beyond 1 year after patients' hospital admissions.

TL;DR: This study finds that an increase in non-profit market share improves for-profit and overall nursing home quality, consistent with the hypothesis that non-profits serve as a quality signal for uninformed nursing home consumers.

TL;DR: It is revealed that consolidation into systems does not generate savings, even after 4 years, and mergers in which hospitals consolidate financial reporting and licenses generate savings of approximately 14%: 2, 3, and 4 years after merger.

TL;DR: This paper re-examines the stationarity of national health care expenditures and GDP in a panel setting utilizing data from 20 OECD countries over the period from 1960 to 1997 and rejects the unit root null hypothesis for both series.

TL;DR: This note builds a model of patient decision-making when fears or anxiety about the future-captured as beliefs about next period's state of health-also enter the patient's utility function.

TL;DR: It is found that subjective financial status is a major determinant of ill-health and makes a major contribution to income related inequalities in health.

TL;DR: It is shown that price increases on cigarettes do not increase, and may actually decrease, consumption of alcohol; as a result, smuggling of cigarettes may have raised consumption of cigarettes as well, suggesting that cigarette taxes may not be as regressive as previously suggested.

TL;DR: This paper combines epidemic modeling with optimization techniques to determine the optimal allocation of a limited resource for epidemic control among multiple noninteracting populations and shows that the optimal resource allocation depends on many factors including the size of each population.

TL;DR: The results showed that those physicians who moved did not change practice style after they moved, which indicates that practice style reflects a deeply rooted behaviour with respect to how to practice medicine.

TL;DR: Numerical simulation of equilibrium epidemics shows that this effect can accelerate spread of the disease in an epidemic's early stages and that the effect of policy interventions, such as preventative vaccines, may depend on whether the intervention was anticipated.

TL;DR: This paper examined the diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) over the past two decades and found that growth in the use of PTCA led to higher total costs despite its lower unit cost.

TL;DR: It is found that parental involvement laws resulted in fewer abortions for minors resulting from fewer pregnancies; the reduction in pregnancy seems to be attributable to increased use of contraception rather than a reduction in sexual activity.

TL;DR: The authors used a unique dataset on the inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the dynamics of the consumption of cannabis and cocaine and found that people are most likely to start using that drugs at ages 18-20 and 20-25.

TL;DR: When the endogeneity of the insurance decision is accounted for, the extent of moral hazard can substantially increase the expected length of a hospital stay by a factor of up to 3.5.

TL;DR: The data reveal that the cutbacks in the Medicaid program did not reduce health insurance coverage rates among targeted immigrants, and the immigrants responded by increasing their labor supply, thereby raising the probability of being covered by employer-sponsored health insurance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of different types of insurance on mortality in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV+) population was investigated and it was shown that, after accounting for observed and unobserved heterogeneity, private insurance is more effective than public insurance in preventing premature death.

TL;DR: It is suggested that higher prices for alcohol reduce important dimensions of current alcohol dependence and abuse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided, and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments, and they show that although patients with low waiting costs will choose public treatment, they may be better off with waiting time than without.