Journal of Health Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Health Economics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales109
Politics and health care spending in the United States: A case study from the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act67
Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado64
The influence of endogenous behaviors among social pairs: Social interaction effects of smoking63
Editorial Board63
Pricing regulations in individual health insurance: Evidence from Medigap57
The Effects of Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Rural China49
Changing preferences: An experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism48
Do minimum wage laws affect employer-sponsored insurance provision?47
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Non-life-threatening ailments and rational patience when expected treatment outcomes are continuously improving37
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Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: Evidence from US twins32
None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents31
Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth31
The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog31
Pharmaceutical demand response to utilization management28
Disruptions to healthcare quality and early child health outcomes: Evidence from health-worker strikes in Kenya27
Biological age and predicting future health care utilisation26
Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?25
Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal25
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure25
Pricing above value: Selling to a market with selection problems24
Prevention, treatment, and palliative care: The relative value of health improvements under alternative evaluation frameworks24
Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology24
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]23
The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica23
When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision22
Living alone and provider behaviour in public and private hospitals22
Crowd-Out and Emergency Department Utilization21
The formation of physician altruism21
Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life19
Editorial Board19
The effect of co-payments on the take-up of prenatal tests19
Rents for Pills: Financial incentives and physician behavior18
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The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment17
The impact of automatic enrolment on the mental health gap in pension participation: Evidence from the UK17
Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment17
Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses16
On the bright side of market concentration in a mixed-oligopoly healthcare industry16
The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage16
Back to school: The effect of school visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 outcomes16
Efficient use of immunosuppressants for kidney transplants15
The hidden toll of the pandemic: Excess mortality in non-COVID-19 hospital patients15
Expression of Concern: “Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]15
Snacks, nudges and asymmetric peer influence: Evidence from food choice experiments with children in Indonesia15
Editorial Board15
What’s in the water? Long-run effects of fluoridation on health and economic self-sufficiency14
Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors’ referrals?14
Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health14
Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?13
Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws13
The morning after: Prescription-free access to emergency contraceptive pills13
Do mandatory waiting periods for abortion increase intimate partner violence?13
Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates13
Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths13
Comparing long-term educational effects of two early childhood health interventions13
HIV treatment and worker absenteeism: Quasi-experimental evidence from a large-scale health program in South Africa13
The effects of pregnancy-related Medicaid expansions on maternal, infant, and child health12
Bittersweet: How prices of sugar-rich foods contribute to the diet-related disease epidemic in Mexico12
Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements: A register-based population study12
Endogenous quality investments in the U.S. hospital market12
Effects of organized screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe12
Early life adversity, biological adaptation, and human capital: evidence from an interrupted malaria control program in Zambia12
The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation12
Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news12
Spatial dependence in physicians’ prices and additional fees: Evidence from France12
Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital12
Lead in drinking water and birth outcomes: A tale of two water treatment plants12
Disability insurance screening and worker health11
The effect of Medicaid expansion on Medicaid participation, payer mix, and labor supply in primary care11
The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health11
Family health spillovers: evidence from the RAND health insurance experiment11
Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine11
The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data11
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics, volume 94 (2024) 102860]11
Patient and peer: Guideline design and expert response11
Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans11
Drinking water, fracking, and infant health11
An optimal mechanism to fund the development of vaccines against emerging epidemics11
Editorial Board11
Attentional processes underlying health state valuation with time trade-off and standard gamble tasks10
The labour market returns to sleep10
QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health10
Abortion Access and Child Protective Services Involvement10
Soil zinc deficiency and child stunting: Evidence from Nepal10
Competition-driven physician-induced demand10
Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?10
Intergenerational effects of sick leave on child human capital10
Changing physicians’ incentives to control the C-section rate: Evidence from a major health care reform in Iran10
Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? Insights from high-Income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong9
Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data9
The transmission of health across 7 generations in China, 1789–19069
The Roles of Nutrition Education and Food Vouchers in Improving Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia9
How does undervaluation in medical savings accounts (MSAs) affect healthcare utilization? Evidence from administrative data in China9
Taking the competitor’s pill: When combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets9
Regression and decomposition with ordinal health outcomes9
The long term benefits of the measles vaccine in Mexico9
Harm reduction for addictive consumption: When does it improve health and when does it backfire?9
Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopaedic surgeons?9
Editorial Board9
The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life9
Non-monetary incentives for tobacco prevention among youth in Indonesia8
On resource allocation in health care: The case of concierge medicine8
The maternal and infant health consequences of restricted access to abortion in the United States8
The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China8
Has mortality risen disproportionately for the least educated?8
Is supported employment effective for Disability Insurance recipients with mental health conditions? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Belgium8
Corrigendum to “Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102859]8
Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India8
Providers, peers and patients. How do physicians’ practice environments affect patient outcomes?8
Understanding the relationship between nonprofit hospital community benefit spending and system membership: An analysis of independent hospital acquisitions8
Competition, quality and integrated health care8
Trading spaces: Medicare's regulatory spillovers on treatment setting for non-Medicare patients7
Persistent effects of temporary incentives: Evidence from a nationwide health insurance experiment7
Adverse selection and network design under regulated plan prices: Evidence from Medicaid7
Editorial Board7
Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design7
The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior7
Medical ethics and physician motivations7
The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Who responds to longer wait times? The effects of predicted emergency wait times on the health and volume of patients who present for care7
Unintended consequences of welfare reform: Evidence from birthweight of Aboriginal children in Australia7
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Out of time? The effect of an infrequent traumatic event on individuals’ time and risk preferences, beliefs, and insurance purchasing7
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Do tobacco 21 laws work?7
Do disability benefits hinder work resumption after recovery?7
The kids aren’t alright: The effects of medical marijuana market size on adolescents7
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State mental health insurance parity laws and college educational outcomes6
Mental health and mortality trends in the United States6
The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom6
Adoption and utilization of device-assisted telemedicine6
Cigarette taxes and smoking among sexual minority adults6
Heat and worker health6
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India6
Neighborhoods, networks, and delivery methods6
Valuing non-marginal changes in mortality and morbidity risk6
Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases6
Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments6
R&D and market size: Who benefits from orphan drug legislation?6
Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery6
Treatment consolidation after vertical integration: Evidence from outpatient procedure markets5
God is in the rain: The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks5
Corrigendum to “Abortion Laws and Women's Health” [Journal of Health Economics 76(2021) 102413]5
Mask mandates save lives5
Vaccination strategies and transmission of COVID-19: Evidence across advanced countries5
Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia5
Hooked on weight control: An economic theory of anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity5
Editorial Board5
Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia5
Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation5
The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales5
The impact of public health sector stockouts on private sector prices and access to healthcare: Evidence from the anti-malarial drug market5
Corrigendum to “Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Increase Organ Donor Registrations” [Journal of Health Economics, 97, 102914, 2024]5
Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities5
Spillovers and Social Interaction Effects in the Demand for Preventive Healthcare: Evidence from the PROGRESA program5
Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?5
Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?5
Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance5
Hospital competition when patients learn through experience5
“Tackling the Substance Use Disorder Crisis: The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities”5
The marginal benefit of hospitals: Evidence from the effect of entry and exit on utilization and mortality rates4
Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage4
The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market4
The effects of trade-induced worker displacement on health and mortality in Mexico4
Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S.4
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How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law4
The effect of RCTs on drug demand: Evidence from off-label cancer drugs4
Does physician-hospital vertical integration signal care-coordination? Evidence from mover-stayer analysis of commercially insured enrollees4
Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused4
Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences4
Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior4
Estimating the welfare gains from anti-retroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa4
The impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program on Critical Access Hospitals: Evidence from Medicare Part B4
Effects of income on infant health: Evidence from the expanded child tax credit and pandemic stimulus checks4
Parental health penalty on adult children’s employment: Gender differences and long-term consequences4
A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare4
The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition4
Do subsidized nursing homes and home care teams reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from Portugal4
How do hospitals respond to input regulation? Evidence from the California nurse staffing mandate3
Heterogeneous effects of consolidation on premiums in Medicare Part D3
Lockdown, essential sectors, and Covid-19: Lessons from Italy3
Do for-profit hospitals cream-skim patients? Evidence from inpatient psychiatric care in California3
Effects of violent media content: Evidence from the rise of the UFC3
Beyond particulate matter: New evidence on the causal effects of air pollution on mortality3
Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark3
Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois3
The unintended effects from halting nuclear power production: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi accident3
Physician investment in hospitals: Specialization, selection, and quality in cardiac care3
Does the framing of patient cost-sharing incentives matter? the effects of deductibles vs. no-claim refunds3
Information shocks and pharmaceutical firms’ marketing efforts: Evidence from the Chantix black box warning removal3
The economics of medical procedure innovation3
Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States3
Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws3
The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being: Evidence from the UK digital switchover3
Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign3
Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions3
A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity3
Income receipt, economic activities, and health: Evidence from ambulance transport patterns3
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