OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Economics is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social capital and the spread of covid-19: Insights from european countries	88
Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada	76
Can Labor Market Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?	59
Medical brain drain: How many, where and why?	54
Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance	51
Conditional cash lotteries increase COVID-19 vaccination rates	51
Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality	49
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on health care utilization: Evidence from county-level medical claims and cellphone data	45
The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data	42
Low emission zones and population health	42
Must-access prescription drug monitoring programs and the opioid overdose epidemic: The unintended consequences	38
Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing	36
The effectiveness of sin food taxes: Evidence from Mexico	33
The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China	32
Is the rise in illicit opioids affecting labor supply and disability claiming rates?	32
The Effects of Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Rural China	28
Abortion laws and women’s health	27
Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World	27
What drives innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D	25
The effects of income on health: Evidence from lottery wins in Singapore	24
Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use	24
Biased health perceptions and risky health behaviors—Theory and evidence	24
Vaccination strategies and transmission of COVID-19: Evidence across advanced countries	24
The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Lockdown, essential sectors, and Covid-19: Lessons from Italy	22

When particulate matter strikes cities: Social disparities and health costs of air pollution	22
Drinking water, fracking, and infant health	21
Forced Migration and the Spread of Infectious Diseases	20
Does holding elections during a Covid-19 pandemic put the lives of politicians at risk?	20
Do-It-Yourself medicine? The impact of light cannabis liberalization on prescription drugs	20
Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood	20
Total shutdowns, targeted restrictions, or individual responsibility: How to promote social distancing in the COVID-19 Era?	19
Docs with their eyes on the clock? The effect of time pressures on primary care productivity	19
Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England	18
New Evidence on the Effects of Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion	18
Public long-term care insurance and consumption of elderly households: Evidence from China	18
Uncovering a behavioral strategy for establishing new habits: Evidence from incentives for medication adherence in Uganda	18
Does unemployment worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour, and selection	17
Lead in drinking water and birth outcomes: A tale of two water treatment plants	17
Hospital Pricing Following Integration with Physician Practices	17
Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark	17
The formation of physician altruism	17
Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime	16
The effect of Medicaid expansion on Medicaid participation, payer mix, and labor supply in primary care	16
Sanitation, financial incentives and health spillovers: A cluster randomised trial	15
The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on native population mortality	15
The role of paid family leave in labor supply responses to a spouse's disability or health shock	15
Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S.	14
How important is price variation between health insurers?	14
Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	14
Treatment consolidation after vertical integration: Evidence from outpatient procedure markets	13
Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments	13
Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths	12
Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal	12
The political cycle of road traffic accidents	12
Rumor has it: How do patients respond to patient-generated physician ratings?	12
“Tackling the Substance Use Disorder Crisis: The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities”	12
Is great information good enough? Evidence from physicians as patients	12
God is in the rain: The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks	12
Do expansions in adolescent access to public insurance affect the decisions of substance use disorder treatment providers?	11
Physician agency, consumerism, and the consumption of lower-limb MRI scans	11
The impact of childhood health shocks on parental labor supply	11
The unintended effects from halting nuclear power production: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi accident	11
The effect of income-based mandates on the demand for private hospital insurance and its dynamics	11
Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform	11
Out of time? The effect of an infrequent traumatic event on individuals’ time and risk preferences, beliefs, and insurance purchasing	11
It runs in the family – Influenza vaccination and spillover effects	11
Effects of employer-offered high-deductible plans on low-value spending in the privately insured population	11
Health insurance, endogenous medical progress, health expenditure growth, and welfare	10
The impact of certificate of need laws on heart attack mortality: Evidence from county borders	10
Marijuana liberalization policies and perinatal health	10
Minimum legal drinking age and the social gradient in binge drinking	10
Discontinuity in care: Practice closures among primary care providers and patient health care utilization	10
Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: Evidence from US twins	10
Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets	10

Snacks, nudges and asymmetric peer influence: Evidence from food choice experiments with children in Indonesia	10
Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children: Impact of the Nepali Civil War on Women's Stature and Intergenerational Health	10
Extreme weather and mortality: Evidence from two millennia of Chinese elites	10
The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being: Evidence from the UK digital switchover	9
Reductions in out-of-pocket prices and forward-looking moral hazard in health care demand	9
The impact of public health sector stockouts on private sector prices and access to healthcare: Evidence from the anti-malarial drug market	9
Purchasing medical devices: The role of buyer competence and discretion	9
Do tobacco 21 laws work?	9
Precautionary savings and shock-coping behaviors: Effects of promoting mobile bank savings on transactional sex in Kenya	9
From pain patient to junkie: An economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity	9
Inattention or reluctance? Parental responses to vaccination reminder letters	9
Competition-driven physician-induced demand	9
How important is the structure of school vaccine requirement opt-out provisions? Evidence from Washington, DC's HPV vaccine requirement	9
Do ridesharing services increase alcohol consumption?	8
Crowd-Out and Emergency Department Utilization	8
QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health	8
The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision	8
Identifying the effects of scientific information and recommendations on physicians’ prescribing behavior	8
Heterogeneity in informal care intensity and its impact on employment	8
The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census	8
Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements: A register-based population study	8
A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity	8
Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes	8
Deterrence effects of antifraud and abuse enforcement in health care	8
Social insurance programs and later-life mortality: Evidence from new deal relief spending	8
Relative age for grade and adolescent risky health behavior	8