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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Changing preferences: An experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism95
Editorial Board78
Politics and health care spending in the United States: A case study from the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act68
Pricing regulations in individual health insurance: Evidence from Medigap62
Health insurance portability and coverage: Evidence from China’s cross-regional instant reimbursement reform38
Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales38
Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado37
Do minimum wage laws affect employer-sponsored insurance provision?37
Editorial Board36
The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study35
Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth35
Pharmaceutical demand response to utilization management33
The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog33
Biological age and predicting future health care utilisation32
Nursing home payroll subsidies and the trade-off between staffing and access to care for Medicaid enrollees31
Disruptions to healthcare quality and early child health outcomes: Evidence from health-worker strikes in Kenya31
Pricing above value: Selling to a market with selection problems27
Learner driving experience and motor vehicle accidents25
Living alone and provider behaviour in public and private hospitals24
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]23
Prevention, treatment, and palliative care: The relative value of health improvements under alternative evaluation frameworks22
The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica22
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure22
Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology22
Individualized disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses21
Contraceptive access and infant health outcomes21
Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?20
Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life20
The formation of physician altruism20
When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision20
Corrigendum to “The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use” [Journal of Health Economics, 102, August 2025, 103013]20
Intertemporal Coordination in Volunteer Markets19
Editorial Board18
Back to school: The effect of school visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 outcomes18
Editorial Board18
The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment18
The impact of vertical integration on health care delivery and costs: Evidence from physician–pharmacy integration17
The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage17
The impact of automatic enrolment on the mental health gap in pension participation: Evidence from the UK17
Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment17
What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exit of Cuban doctors in Brazil17
The hidden toll of the pandemic: Excess mortality in non-COVID-19 hospital patients17
On the bright side of market concentration in a mixed-oligopoly healthcare industry17
Polluted air, healthier diets: Household food consumption patterns in response to air quality in China16
Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses16
What’s in the water? Long-run effects of fluoridation on health and economic self-sufficiency16
Rents for Pills: Financial incentives and physician behavior16
The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank15
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
Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors’ referrals?14
Nurse practitioner training and local medical provider supply14
Workforce impacts of subsidised mental healthcare: Evidence on supply, geographic distribution, and earnings14
Editorial Board14
Efficient use of immunosuppressants for kidney transplants14
Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths13
Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?13
Workload and team performance in health care: Evidence from Kenya13
Corrigendum to “Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 96, June 2024, 102883]12
Overstretched: Financial distress and intimate partner violence in the U.S.12
Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws12
Comparing long-term educational effects of two early childhood health interventions12
The morning after: Prescription-free access to emergency contraceptive pills12
The effects of pregnancy-related Medicaid expansions on maternal, infant, and child health11
Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal11
Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates11
Effects of organized screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe11
The impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice laws on preventable hospitalizations11
Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital10
Do mandatory waiting periods for abortion increase intimate partner violence?10
Spatial dependence in physicians’ prices and additional fees: Evidence from France10
Effects of informal caring on labour market outcomes of carers: Evidence from HILDA10
Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine10
Lead in drinking water and birth outcomes: A tale of two water treatment plants9
Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans9
Patient and peer: Guideline design and expert response9
Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news9
Endogenous quality investments in the U.S. hospital market9
Editorial Board9
The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data9
Disability insurance screening and worker health9
Using stock price movements to estimate the harm from collusive drug patent litigation settlements9
Attentional processes underlying health state valuation with time trade-off and standard gamble tasks8
Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?8
QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health8
Lost in the net? Broadband internet and youth mental health8
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics, volume 94 (2024) 102860]8
When do supply-side drug control policies save lives? Evidence from pharmacy methadone restrictions8
Intergenerational effects of sick leave on child human capital8
The labour market returns to sleep8
Soil zinc deficiency and child stunting: Evidence from Nepal8
An optimal mechanism to fund the development of vaccines against emerging epidemics8
Abortion access and child protective services involvement8
Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopaedic surgeons?7
Editorial Board7
Taking the competitor’s pill: When combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets7
Harm reduction for addictive consumption: When does it improve health and when does it backfire?7
How does undervaluation in medical savings accounts (MSAs) affect healthcare utilization? Evidence from administrative data in China7
The long term benefits of the measles vaccine in Mexico7
Competition, quality and integrated health care7
Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data7
Regression and decomposition with ordinal health outcomes6
The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China6
Corrigendum to “Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102859]6
Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India6
The Road to Healthier Diet: Benefits of the “Five Vertical and Seven Horizontal” National Trunk Highway System in China6
The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life6
Providers, peers and patients. How do physicians’ practice environments affect patient outcomes?6
Is supported employment effective for Disability Insurance recipients with mental health conditions? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Belgium6
On resource allocation in health care: The case of concierge medicine6
The maternal and infant health consequences of restricted access to abortion in the United States6
Abortion restrictions and intimate partner violence in the Dobbs Era6
Do tobacco 21 laws work?6
The time cost of a disability6
Understanding the relationship between nonprofit hospital community benefit spending and system membership: An analysis of independent hospital acquisitions6
Trading spaces: Medicare's regulatory spillovers on treatment setting for non-Medicare patients6
Mental health and mortality trends in the United States5
Heat and worker health5
Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities5
Valuing non-marginal changes in mortality and morbidity risk5
Physician practice preferences and healthcare expenditures: Evidence from commercial payers5
The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic5
Editorial Board5
Out of time? The effect of an infrequent traumatic event on individuals’ time and risk preferences, beliefs, and insurance purchasing5
The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom5
Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?5
Adoption and utilization of device-assisted telemedicine5
State mental health insurance parity laws and college educational outcomes5
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India5
Adverse selection and network design under regulated plan prices: Evidence from Medicaid5
Medical ethics and physician motivations5
Unintended consequences of welfare reform: Evidence from birthweight of Aboriginal children in Australia5
Editorial Board5
Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments5
Editorial Board5
Nursing shortages and patient outcomes5
The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior5
Unhooking the past: Early-life exposure to hookworm eradication and later-life longevity5
Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program5
The kids aren’t alright: The effects of medical marijuana market size on adolescents5
Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design5
Who responds to longer wait times? The effects of predicted emergency wait times on the health and volume of patients who present for care5
Editorial Board4
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]4
Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?4
Effects of long-term care benefits on healthcare utilization in Catalonia4
Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior4
Prescribing power and equitable access to care: Evidence from pharmacists in Ontario, Canada4
The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales4
Impacts of health checkup programs standardization on working-age self-employed and unemployed: Insights from Japan’s local government response to national policy4
Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation4
Mask mandates save lives4
How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law4
Estimating the welfare gains from anti-retroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa4
The marginal benefit of hospitals: Evidence from the effect of entry and exit on utilization and mortality rates4
A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare4
Hospital competition when patients learn through experience4
Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia4
Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? Evidence from households in extreme poverty4
Do subsidized nursing homes and home care teams reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from Portugal4
Prioritisation, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed healthcare system4
Effects of income on infant health: Evidence from the expanded child tax credit and pandemic stimulus checks4
The impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program on Critical Access Hospitals: Evidence from Medicare Part B4
Hooked on weight control: An economic theory of anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity4
Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance4
Parental health penalty on adult children’s employment: Gender differences and long-term consequences3
The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition3
Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences3
The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market3
Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused3
Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S.3
Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws3
Bad lighting: Effects of youth indoor tanning prohibitions3
The impact of immunotherapy on reductions in cancer mortality: Evidence from Medicare3
Minimum legal drinking age and educational outcomes3
Supply-side opioid restrictions and the retail pharmacy market3
Editorial Board3
Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States3
How do hospitals respond to input regulation? Evidence from the California nurse staffing mandate3
Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois3
The intergenerational health effects of child marriage bans3
Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage3
The effect of RCTs on drug demand: Evidence from off-label cancer drugs3
Does physician-hospital vertical integration signal care-coordination? Evidence from mover-stayer analysis of commercially insured enrollees3
Do for-profit hospitals cream-skim patients? Evidence from inpatient psychiatric care in California3
Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign3
Income receipt, economic activities, and health: Evidence from ambulance transport patterns3
Fertility responses to tropical cyclones: Causal evidence and mechanisms3
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