Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2011"

TL;DR: Using nationally representative panel data from Australia, it is found that an increase in employability from zero to 100% cancels around three quarters, in some cases more, of the detrimental effect of unemployment.

TL;DR: It is found that maternity leave led to small increases in birth weight, decreases in the likelihood of a premature birth, and substantial decreases in infant mortality for children of college-educated and married mothers, who were most able to take advantage of unpaid leave.

TL;DR: Women's greater sensitivity to commuting time seems to be a result of their larger responsibility for day-to-day household tasks, including childcare and housework, and this result is robust to numerous different specifications.

TL;DR: Estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes but not necessarily withrespect to health-related behavior.

TL;DR: There is evidence that individuals who are more likely to respond to job loss by increasing unhealthy behaviors are already in the problematic range for these behaviors before losing their jobs, suggesting the health effects of job loss could be concentrated among "at risk" individuals and could lead to negative outcomes for the individuals, their families, and society at large.

TL;DR: Evidence is found that educational outcomes did improve significantly in English and Science and that authorized absences - which are most likely linked to illness and health - fell by 14%.

TL;DR: A 'matrix' is provided that provides guidelines on the usefulness of several rank-dependent inequality indices under varying circumstances and lifts the curtain on the confusing debate between adherents of absolute versus relative health differences.

TL;DR: It is found that a patient who displays knowledge of appropriate antibiotics use reduces both antibiotic prescription rates and drug expenditures, and also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality of the physician-patient interactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a controlled laboratory experiment was conducted to analyze the influence of incentives from fee-for-service and capitation payments on physicians' supply of medical services, and they found that physicians provided significantly more services under fee for service than under capitation.

TL;DR: Spending on institutional and homecare for the entire Dutch 55+ population is analyzed, conditioning on age, sex, TTD, cause-of-death and co-residence, suggesting that TTD largely approximates disability.

TL;DR: Results from state fixed effects models yield a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and the depression search index and a negative relationship between initial UI claims on the one hand and the Depression and anxiety search indexes on the other.

TL;DR: Methods proposed in Altonji et al. (2005a) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding selection along unobservable factors are employed to estimate effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings.

TL;DR: There is a significant causal effect from health on the probability of employment: individuals who incur a health shock are significantly more likely to leave employment and transit into disability.

TL;DR: The results indicate neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking, drinking or eating various types of food.

TL;DR: An ex-post assessment of the UK 5-a-day information campaign, where the positive effects of information are disentangled from potentially conflicting price dynamics, and quantitative evidence of a differentiated impact by income group is provided.

TL;DR: A bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics is taken using bibliographic "metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and the authors' own topical classifications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the determinants of sickness absence behavior; in terms of employee characteristics, workplace characteristics, panel doctor characteristics, and economic conditions, and found that most of the cross-sectional variation in absenteeism is caused by genuine employee heterogeneity.

TL;DR: It is found that, whilst there is strong internal consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same health problem across differentWell-being measures.

TL;DR: It is found that as long as two to six years after diagnosis, cancer survivors have lower employment rates and work fewer hours than other similarly aged adults.

TL;DR: This paper presents the first attempt to use a discrete choice experiment to derive distributional weights for quality adjusted life years (QALYs), based on characteristics (age and severity) of the beneficiaries, using the Hicksian compensating variation.

TL;DR: It is shown that behavioral risk factors are not of primary importance, and mortality returns to risk factors, and conditional onrisk factors, the return to education, have grown over time.

TL;DR: It is found that school bus retrofits induced reductions in bronchitis, asthma, and pneumonia incidence for at-risk populations and back of the envelope calculations suggest conservative benefit-cost ratios between 7:1 and 16:1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior and found that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers, using detailed work and fertility histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

TL;DR: This article examined the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-1942 famine and found that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have poorer general health than others, and that this effect is especially pronounced among older people, who also more often report symptoms indicative of coronary heart problems and type 2 diabetes.

TL;DR: Using the restricted-access National Health Interview Survey (1985-2004), the effects on overnight hospitalizations, asthma episodes, and injuries/poisonings for children ages 7-17 are identified and do not reflect a non-representative local effect.

TL;DR: The results indicate that although the change in alcohol consumption habits of young adults following their 21st birthday is less severe than previously known, policies that are designed to reduce drinking among young adults may have desirable impacts and can create public health benefits.

TL;DR: The causal relationship between access to adult Medicaid dental benefits and usage of dental services for low-income adults is estimated, using difference-in-differences estimation procedures to exploit the state-level variation in adult Medicaid dentist benefits.

TL;DR: It is found that from 1993 to 1995, the period when breast cancer advocacy was expanding rapidly into a nationwide movement, NBCAM led to an increase in the number of November diagnoses.