Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2017"

TL;DR: It is found that coverage was moderately responsive to price subsidies, with larger gains in state-based insurance exchanges than the federal exchange and among previously-eligible populations even in non-expansion states.

TL;DR: Findings hold when performing a state-level analysis, rather than county-level; are primarily driven by adverse events among whites; and are stable across time periods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided the first analysis of the relationship between economic conditions and the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana, and found that economic downturns lead to increases in the intensity of prescription pain reliever use as well as increases in clinically relevant substance use disorders involving opioids.

TL;DR: Data on non-emergency coronary revascularisation procedures in the English National Health Service found substantive differences in waiting times within public hospitals between patients with different socioeconomic status: up to 35% difference between the most and least deprived population quintile groups.

TL;DR: It is shown that a new measure of cognitive decline, that can be computed in longitudinal surveys where respondents perform the same recall memory tests over the years, is highly predictive of the onset of dementia.

TL;DR: This paper develops a new method of partitioning the product space into relevant nutritional clusters that define a set of nutritionally-bundled goods, which parsimoniously characterize consumer choice sets, and estimates a large utility-derived demand system over this joint product-nutrient space that allows for price and expenditure elasticities.

TL;DR: Evidence of economically and statistically significant cost reductions at acquired hospitals is found, and these results are robust to a variety of different control strategies, and do not appear to be easily explained by post-merger changes in service and/or patient mix.

TL;DR: The authors' estimated negative effects on health at birth are interpreted as providing lower bounds to the true effects of in utero exposure to terrorism, and it is found that exposure to bomb casualties increases fetal deaths.

TL;DR: A novel approach to gauge the extent to which gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and health behavior and offers also an economic explanation for why the gender gap declines with rising income.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that not only are e-cigarettes and smoking regular cigarettes positively related and not substitutes for young people, banning retail sales to minors is an effective policy tool in reducing tobacco use.

TL;DR: Individuals who were exposed to WWII destruction during the prenatal and early postnatal periods have higher BMIs and are more likely to be obese as adults, and an elevated incidence of chronic health conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorder in adulthood.

TL;DR: Analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that financial integration systematically produces economically large changes in the acquired physicians' behavior, but has less consistent effects at the acquiring system level.

TL;DR: In this article, the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision were investigated, showing that there are significant initial negative effects on the probability to work full-time.

TL;DR: It is shown that exogenous health shocks could facilitate the adoption of these behaviors and provide long-lasting effects on health outcomes and areas with a higher incidence of H1N1 experienced larger reductions in diarrhea-related cases among young children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate within-year price elasticities of demand for detailed health care services using an instrumental variable strategy, in which individual monthly cost shares are instrumented by employer-year-plan-month average cost shares.

TL;DR: It is found that cyberbullying has a strong impact on all suicidal behaviors: it increases suicidal thoughts by 14.5 percentage points and suicide attempts by 8.7 percentage points, with these effects being stronger for men than for women.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique data set based on the health records of all children born in New Jersey between 2006 and 2010, and showed that when they split the data by whether or not children live in a "black" zip code, this racial difference in the incidence of asthma among low birth weight (LBW) children entirely disappears.

TL;DR: The results show that the LTCI introduction has significant and positive spillover effects on family caregivers' labor force participation and the effects vary by gender and age.

TL;DR: The authors provided evidence on the effectiveness of two vaccination policies -simple non-binding recommendations to vaccinate versus mandates requiring vaccination prior to childcare or kindergarten attendance - in the context of the only disease whose institutional features permit a credible examination of both: hepatitis A.

TL;DR: It is found that SOP laws are neither helpful nor harmful in regards to health outcomes but states that have no SOP-based barriers have lower rates of induced labor and Cesarean section births.

TL;DR: Heterogeneity in the pervasiveness and direction of deviations suggests that the private market coordinates around Medicare's pricing for simplicity but abandons it when sufficient value is at stake.

TL;DR: It is suggested - perhaps counterintuitively - that shared lifestyle factors and homogamous partner selection make roughly equal contributions to the concordance the authors observe in most of the health measures they examine.

TL;DR: These measures of the efficiency consequences of price and benefit distortions under a given payment system are developed based on explicit economic models of insurer behavior under adverse selection, incorporate multiple features of plan payment systems, and can be calculated prior to observing actual insurer and consumer behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of organizational changes in primary care settings in the absence of changes to provider payment and outside integrated care systems, and found that FMGs significantly decrease patients' health care services utilization and costs in outpatient settings relative to patients not in FMGs.

TL;DR: This work finds strong evidence for a decline in employment and earnings of individuals whose spouses are diagnosed with cancer, interpreted as individuals reducing their labor supply to provide care to their sick spouses and to enjoy joint leisure.

TL;DR: It is found that downstream spending at skilled nursing facilities (SNF) is a strong predictor of mortality and that in the search for waste in the US healthcare, post-acute SNF care is a prime candidate.

TL;DR: It is suggested that CSR subsidies are salient to consumers and that the program is well designed to account for any lack of health insurance literacy among the low-income population it serves.

TL;DR: Flexible and efficient copula-mixture method of mapping from 3L to 5L and switch to mapped EQ-5D-5L increases measured cost-effectiveness ratios substantially.

TL;DR: The results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of analysis: the sign and magnitude of the parameter estimates are similar at the individual level and the aggregate (county) level; both showing pro-cyclical mortality.

TL;DR: Using a panel dataset of Japanese vital statistics and multiple estimation methods, it is found that railroad network expansion is associated with a six percent increase in gross mortality rates among newly integrated regions.