Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2009"

TL;DR: A corrected version of the Concentration Index is proposed which is superior to the original concentration index and its variants, in the sense that it is a rank-dependent indicator which satisfies four key requirements (transfer, level independence, cardinal invariance, and mirror).

TL;DR: It is suggested that informal care is an effective substitute for long-term care as long as the needs of the elderly are low and require unskilled type of care.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates with information from air quality monitors, finding consistently negative effects of exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) both during and after birth, with effects considerably larger for smokers and older mothers.

TL;DR: It is found that hospitals that improve their rank are able to attract significantly more patients and have implications regarding the competitiveness of hospital markets and the effect that the dissemination of quality information in hospital markets can have on individual choice.

TL;DR: It is shown how to derive measures of unfair inequalities in health and in health care delivery from a structural model of health care and health production and proposes to analyse the resulting distributions with the traditional apparatus of Lorenz curves and inequality measures.

TL;DR: It is shown that weight increases with age and is inversely related to SES during childhood, and the obesity gradient widens over the lifecycle, consistent with research on other health outcomes.

TL;DR: This work directly compares survey responses of a self-reported measure of health that is commonly used in nationally representative surveys with objective measures of the same health condition to find no evidence of an income/health gradient using self- reported hypertension but a sizeable gradient when using objectively measured hypertension.

TL;DR: A French longitudinal dataset is used and the two identifying shocks are the Zay and Berthoin reforms, which respectively raised the minimum school leaving age to 14 and 16 years, and subsequent declines in mortality are observed, but none of these declines appears to be significant.

TL;DR: The effect of maternal education on the health of young children by using a large sample of adopted children from China suggests that the main effect of the mother's education on child health is in post-natal nurturing.

TL;DR: The relationship between health aid and infant mortality is examined, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004, to imply that achieving the MDG target through additional health aid alone would require a roughly 15-fold increase in current levels of aid.

TL;DR: Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, it is found that the incremental healthcare costs associated with obesity are passed on to obese workers with employer-sponsored health insurance in the form of lower cash wages.

TL;DR: It is shown that sports activities have sizeable positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective well-being.

TL;DR: The authors used nonparametric bounding methods and data from the 2001-2006 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) to identify the effects of food insecurity on child health outcomes in the presence of nonrandom selection and nonclassical measurement error.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of parental education on child health outcomes and found that increasing the school leaving age by 1 year had little effect on the health of their offspring.

TL;DR: Evidence that specific genetic markers have good statistical properties to identify the impacts of ADHD, depression and obesity is presented, which help reveal a new dynamism from poor health to lower academic achievement.

TL;DR: It is found that nonprofit hospitals' medical service provision systematically varies by market mix, and that for-profit hospitals have higher margins in markets with more for-profits.

TL;DR: The overall conclusion is that tort reforms do not significantly affect medical decisions, nor do they have a systematic effect on patient outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine why treatment styles differ across obstetricians at a point in time and why styles change over time, finding that variation in c-section rates across physicians within a market is about twice as large as variation between markets.

TL;DR: A simple model of soft budget constraint that closely resembles the intergovernmental relationships in the Italian public health care sector is tested, showing that the link between the ex-ante financing by the Central government and the health expenditure by regions was stronger when regional expectations of future bailing outs were presumably lower.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in Britain and found that it had no impact on the employment rate of disabled people or possibly worsened it.

TL;DR: In this article, the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs is studied, focusing on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status.

TL;DR: In a recent article in this journal, Erreygers has proposed a new measure of income-related health inequality to overcome three shortcomings of the concentration index, but he has misgivings about his paper.

TL;DR: An endogenous multivariate probit model is used to account for the potential endogeneity of the incidence of chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental illnesses, and results significantly overestimate the effects of these conditions.

TL;DR: There is evidence that the weight of teens in low- to middle-socioeconomic status families is most sensitive to fast food prices, and the cross-sectional model over-estimates the price of fast food BMI effect by about 25%.

TL;DR: The data ultimately indicate that a $1000 increase, in current dollars, in the reimbursement for a cesarean section increases cESarean delivery rates by about one percentage point, one-quarter of the effect estimated originally.

TL;DR: Of the two methods, only PBP appears to have had any beneficial effect on "amenable mortality", but it is found that FFS and PBP both increased national health spending, including private (i.e. out-of-pocket) spending.

TL;DR: Cooper et al. as discussed by the authors presented a meta-analysis based on 39 observations obtained from 37 studies (from nine different countries) which all use a hedonic wage method to calculate the value of a statistical life.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reply to Adam Wagstaff's criticism of my corrected version of the Concentration Index for bounded health variables, and show that his criticism is unfounded, and that his index is not superior to mine.

TL;DR: The results indicate that parental health and, in particular, the mother's health plays a significant role, reducing the income coefficient to zero; suggesting an underlying mechanism that can explain the observed relationship between child health and family income.

TL;DR: Empirical results provide several consistent findings in support of the hypothesis that profit incentives do affect the physician's prescribing decision, suggesting that physicians act as imperfect agents.