OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Health Economics is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The winter choke: Coal-Fired heating, air pollution, and mortality in China	151
Social capital and the spread of covid-19: Insights from european countries	78
Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada	66
Social capital and health: a meta-analysis	65
Can Labor Market Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?	50
Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance	48
Conditional cash lotteries increase COVID-19 vaccination rates	44
Health technology assessment with risk aversion in health	42
Medical brain drain: How many, where and why?	39
Did the ACA Medicaid expansion save lives?	38
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on health care utilization: Evidence from county-level medical claims and cellphone data	37
How increasing medical access to opioids contributes to the opioid epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D	34
Can policy affect initiation of addictive substance use? Evidence from opioid prescribing	32
The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data	32
Low emission zones and population health	30
The effects of DACA on health insurance, access to care, and health outcomes	30
The effectiveness of sin food taxes: Evidence from Mexico	29
Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality	29
Retirement and health: Evidence from England	29
Must-access prescription drug monitoring programs and the opioid overdose epidemic: The unintended consequences	28
The response to nutritional labels: Evidence from a quasi-experiment	28
Better off at home? Effects of nursing home eligibility on costs, hospitalizations and survival	27
Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World	26
Did parental involvement laws grow teeth? The effects of state restrictions on minors’ access to abortion	23
Abortion laws and women’s health	22

Do hospitals respond to changing incentive structures? Evidence from Medicare’s 2007 DRG restructuring	22
The effects of income on health: Evidence from lottery wins in Singapore	22
The Effects of Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care: Evidence from Rural China	22
Vaccination strategies and transmission of COVID-19: Evidence across advanced countries	22
Is the rise in illicit opioids affecting labor supply and disability claiming rates?	21
What drives innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D	21
Time to care? The effects of retirement on informal care provision	21
The average and distributional effects of teenage adversity on long-term health	21
The Green revolution and infant mortality in India	19
Total shutdowns, targeted restrictions, or individual responsibility: How to promote social distancing in the COVID-19 Era?	19
When particulate matter strikes cities: Social disparities and health costs of air pollution	19
Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood	18
Biased health perceptions and risky health behaviors—Theory and evidence	18
Lockdown, essential sectors, and Covid-19: Lessons from Italy	18
The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China	17
Drinking water, fracking, and infant health	17
Does holding elections during a Covid-19 pandemic put the lives of politicians at risk?	16
Primary care physician practice styles and patient care: Evidence from physician exits in Medicare	16
The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Smoking to cope: Addictive behavior as a response to mental distress	15
Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use	15
Forced Migration and the Spread of Infectious Diseases	15
The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on native population mortality	15
Do-It-Yourself medicine? The impact of light cannabis liberalization on prescription drugs	15
Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England	14
Maternal education and child health: Causal evidence from Denmark	14
Docs with their eyes on the clock? The effect of time pressures on primary care productivity	14
The cyclicality of informal care	14
Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality	14
How important is price variation between health insurers?	13
Hunger pains? SNAP timing and emergency room visits	13
Does unemployment worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour, and selection	13
Uncovering a behavioral strategy for establishing new habits: Evidence from incentives for medication adherence in Uganda	13
New Evidence on the Effects of Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion	13
Lead in drinking water and birth outcomes: A tale of two water treatment plants	13
Living up to expectations: Experimental tests of subjective life expectancy as reference point in time trade-off and standard gamble	12
Hospital Pricing Following Integration with Physician Practices	12
Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime	12
Sanitation, financial incentives and health spillovers: A cluster randomised trial	11
The effect of Medicaid expansion on Medicaid participation, payer mix, and labor supply in primary care	11
“Tackling the Substance Use Disorder Crisis: The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities”	11
The formation of physician altruism	11
God is in the rain: The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks	11
Rumor has it: How do patients respond to patient-generated physician ratings?	10
Not only in my genes: The effects of peers’ genotype on obesity	10
Do expansions in adolescent access to public insurance affect the decisions of substance use disorder treatment providers?	10
The effect of income-based mandates on the demand for private hospital insurance and its dynamics	10
Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	10
The role of heterogeneity of patients’ preferences in kidney transplantation	10
Is great information good enough? Evidence from physicians as patients	10

Inattention or reluctance? Parental responses to vaccination reminder letters	9
Fracking and risky sexual activity	9
The impact of childhood health shocks on parental labor supply	9
It runs in the family – Influenza vaccination and spillover effects	9
Marijuana liberalization policies and perinatal health	9
The political cycle of road traffic accidents	9
The unintended effects from halting nuclear power production: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi accident	9
The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England	9
Using biomarkers to predict healthcare costs: Evidence from a UK household panel	9
Effects of employer-offered high-deductible plans on low-value spending in the privately insured population	9
Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes	8
Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal	8
Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments	8
Extreme weather and mortality: Evidence from two millennia of Chinese elites	8
Physician agency, consumerism, and the consumption of lower-limb MRI scans	8
The role of paid family leave in labor supply responses to a spouse's disability or health shock	8
Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform	8
Precautionary savings and shock-coping behaviors: Effects of promoting mobile bank savings on transactional sex in Kenya	8
How important is the structure of school vaccine requirement opt-out provisions? Evidence from Washington, DC's HPV vaccine requirement	8
From pain patient to junkie: An economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity	8
The children of the missed pill	7
Discontinuity in care: Practice closures among primary care providers and patient health care utilization	7
The impact of public health sector stockouts on private sector prices and access to healthcare: Evidence from the anti-malarial drug market	7
Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets	7
Snacks, nudges and asymmetric peer influence: Evidence from food choice experiments with children in Indonesia	7
Theoretical bounds on the value of improved health	7
Social insurance programs and later-life mortality: Evidence from new deal relief spending	7
Treatment consolidation after vertical integration: Evidence from outpatient procedure markets	7
Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community-Based Health Interventions and Fertility Choices	7
The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being: Evidence from the UK digital switchover	7
Deterrence effects of antifraud and abuse enforcement in health care	7
Competition-driven physician-induced demand	7
Cutting fertility? Effects of cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply	7
Determinants of Dietary Choice in the US: Evidence from Consumer Migration	7