Health Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Health Economics is 1. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
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The role of civic capital on vaccination54
Development of a framework and decision tool for the evaluation of health technologies based on surrogate endpoint evidence53
Comparing risk adjustment estimation methods under data availability constraints46
Does expanding access to cannabis affect traffic crashes? County‐level evidence from recreational marijuana dispensary sales in Colorado40
The impact of cold waves and heat waves on mortality: Evidence from a lower middle‐income country37
On the demand for telemedicine: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic36
Medicaid expansion and opioid prescriptions: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey28
Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution26
Long‐term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador25
Lessons learned? Intended and unintended effects of India's second‐generation maternal cash transfer scheme23
The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders22
Impact of prevention in primary care on costs in primary and secondary care for people with serious mental illness21
Public drug insurance, moral hazard and children's use of mental health medication: Latent mental health risk‐specific responses to lower out‐of‐pocket treatment costs21
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Discovering treatment effectiveness via median treatment effects—Applications to COVID‐19 clinical trials20
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The Growth of Illicit Drug Use and Its Effects on Murder Rates19
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe19
Do pharmaceutical prices rise anticipating branded competition?19
Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence From a Finnish Pension Reform19
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Medical occupation preference under the influence of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of risk and altruistic preferences18
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Only the fit survive recessions: Estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle18
The impact of price promotions on sales of unhealthy food and drink products in British retail stores15
Vaccine‐skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions15
Disentangling the welfarism/extra‐welfarism distinction: Towards a more fine‐grained categorization15
Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: Evidence from linked national Medicare claims data15
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The role of wage beliefs in the decision to become a nurse14
Health insurance and child mortality: Evidence from India14
Price spillovers and specialization in health care: The case of children's hospitals14
Exploring the misalignment on the value of further research between payers and manufacturers. A case study on a novel total artificial heart14
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The future of the elderly population health status: Filling a knowledge gap14
Spillover effects and other determinants of medical device uptake in the presence of a medical guideline: An analysis of drug‐eluting stents in Germany and Italy13
Effects of essential caregiver policies on COVID‐19 and non‐COVID‐19 deaths in nursing homes13
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A theory of fiscal policy response to an epidemic12
Selective referral or learning by doing? An analysis of hospital volume‐outcome relationship of vascular procedures12
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Flexible Bayesian longitudinal models for cost‐effectiveness analyses with informative missing data12
Adaptation of the Foster‐Greer‐Thorbecke poverty measures for the measurement of catastrophic health expenditures12
Mental health over the life course: Evidence for a U‐shape?12
Access to health care and mental health—Evidence from the ACA preexisting conditions provision12
Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs11
Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession‐linked declines in healthcare access and health status11
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence11
Correcting for discounting and loss aversion in composite time trade‐off11
Rural pensions, intra‐household bargaining, and elderly medical expenditure in China11
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International differences in interspousal health correlations11
The effect of nurse practitioner scope of practice laws on primary care delivery11
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Naturalization and immigrants' health10
Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care10
Estimating an exchange‐rate between care‐related and health‐related quality of life outcomes for economic evaluation: An application of the wellbeing valuation method10
Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal10
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Technology adoption by primary care physicians10
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All eyes on the price: An assessment of the willingness‐to‐pay for eyeglasses in rural Burkina Faso10
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The effect of medical cannabis laws on pharmaceutical marketing to physicians10
Spillover effect of the Patient Drive Payment Model on skilled nursing facility therapy delivery among Medicare Advantage enrollees10
How do insurance firms respond to financial risk sharing regulations? Evidence from the Affordable Care Act10
Do parental preferences predict engagement in child health programs?9
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Long term care insurance with state‐dependent preferences9
Risk compensation after COVID‐19 vaccination: Evidence from vaccine rollout by exact birth date in South Korea9
A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health9
Long‐term health effects of a school construction program9
Auditing the prescription drug consumer price index in a changing marketplace9
Pornography usage during adolescence: Does it lead to risky sexual behavior?9
Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru9
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Drink…then drive away: The effects of lowering the blood alcohol concentration in Utah9
Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions8
(No) time to be healthy: Optimal policy with time and monetary investments in health8
The impact of COVID‐19 shelter‐in‐place policy responses on excess mortality8
Effects of extending residencies on the supply and quality of family medicine practitioners; difference‐in‐differences evidence from the implementation of mandatory family medicine residencies in Cana8
Conflict exposure and health: Evidence from the Gaza Strip8
The long‐term effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on women's physical and mental health8
The effect of awarding disability benefits on opioid consumption8
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Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area‐level indicators: A machine learning approach8
The effects of graduated driver licensing on teenage body weight8
Fat vs. Sugar: The Case for a Saturated Fat Tax in Italy7
The effect of health financing systems on health system outcomes: A cross‐country panel analysis7
Mapping between EQ‐5D‐3L and EQ‐5D‐5L: A survey experiment on the validity of multi‐instrument data7
The effects of structure, process and outcome incentives on primary care referrals to a national prevention programme7
Inequality in life expectancies across Europe and the US7
Whose mental health declines during economic downturns?7
Strategic Coding in the Assessment of Long‐Term Care Needs: Evidence From France7
Elderly responses to private health insurance incentives: Evidence from Australia7
Value‐Based Pricing for Drugs With Uncertain Clinical Benefits7
The effect of alcohol sales restrictions on alcohol poisoning mortality: Evidence from Russia7
Labor supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples: Evidence from the UK7
The effect of social media use on mental health of college students during the pandemic7
Incentives to implement personalized medicine under second‐best pricing7
Money and my mind: Maternal cash transfers and mental health7
“It is not a scientific number it is just a feeling”: Populating a multi‐dimensional end‐of‐life decision framework using deliberative methods7
Coverage with evidence development for medical devices in Europe: Can practice meet theory?7
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Does affirmative action reduce disparities in healthcare use by Indigenous peoples? Evidence from Australia's Indigenous Practice Incentives Program6
Who is resilient in a time of crisis? The importance of financial and non‐financial resources6
The effect of parental health shocks on living arrangements and employment6
Linear mixed models to handle missing at random data in trial‐based economic evaluations6
The addition of cannabis to prescription drug monitoring programs and medication fills in Medicaid6
Recreational cannabis legalizations associated with reductions in prescription drug utilization among Medicaid enrollees6
Job loss and psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal Analysis from residents in nine predominantly African American low‐income neighborhoods6
The effect of absolute versus relative temperature on health and the role of social care6
Testing for selection bias and moral hazard in private health insurance: Evidence from a mixed public‐private health system6
Mortality inequality, spatial differences and health care access6
The impact of long‐term care insurance on the utilization of inpatient service: Evidence and mechanisms in China6
The impact of integrated care on health care utilization and costs in a socially deprived urban area in Germany: A difference‐in‐differences approach within an event‐study framework6
From prevention to treatment: Prescription medication, information, and health behaviors6
Impact of hospital‐physician vertical integration on physician‐administered drug spending and utilization6
Economic shocks, health, and social protection: The effect of COVID‐19 income shocks on health and mitigation through cash transfers in South Africa6
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Cash‐Out Puzzle and Long‐Term Care Insurance: Welfare of the Elderly6
The health, economic and social burden of smoking in Argentina, and the impact of increasing tobacco taxes in a context of illicit trade6
Grading bias and young adult mental health6
Parameterizing standard measures of income and health inequality using choice experiments6
The effects of a national policy to reduce c‐sections in Brazil6
Rainfall shocks, child mortality, and water infrastructure6
Impact of Tobacco‐21 Laws on Maternal Smoking Behavior6
The impact of increasing the United Kingdom national minimum wage on self‐reported health6
The long‐run effects of diagnosis related group payment on hospital lengths of stay in a publicly funded health care system: Evidence from 15 years of micro data6
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A fresh look at primary prevention for health risks5
The determinants of immigrant health insurance in the United States: Understanding the role of health care in origin societies5
Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors5
The effects of drug safety warnings on drug sales and share prices5
Medicaid expansion and the mental health of college students5
No mission? No motivation. On hospitals' organizational form and charity care provision5
Lead exposure and student outcomes: A study of Flint schools5
Do health care quality improvement policies work for all? Distributional effects by baseline quality in South Africa5
Why higher copayments for opioids did not reduce use among Medicare beneficiaries5
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Perceived risk and vaccine hesitancy: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Italy5
Do sugar‐sweetened beverage taxes improve public health for high school aged adolescents?5
The impact of minimum wage increases on cigarette smoking5
Forgetting‐by‐not‐doing: The case of surgeons and cesarean sections5
Healthy, nudged, and wise: Experimental evidence on the role of information salience in reducing tobacco intake5
Selection and behavioral responses of health insurance subsidies in the long run: Evidence from a field experiment in Ghana5
An imperfect test for a virus can Be worse than No test at all5
Electronic medical records and primary care quality: Evidence from Manitoba5
Understanding the distributional impacts of health insurance reform: Evidence from a consumer cost‐sharing program5
The intergenerational persistence of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data5
The health returns of attending university for the marginally eligible student5
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Effectiveness of hospital transfer payments under a prospective payment system: An analysis of a policy change in New Zealand5
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Economic Shocks and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effects of Import Competition in the U.S.5
Parental decisions to divorce and have additional children among families with children with cerebral palsy: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal and administrative data5
The effects of income fluctuations on undernutrition and overnutrition across the lifecycle5
Scope of practice and opioid prescribing behavior of nurse practitioners serving Medicare beneficiaries5
From financial wealth shocks to ill‐health: Allostatic load and overload5
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Cloudy with a chance of munchies: Assessing the impact of recreational marijuana legalization on obesity4
Social fund and infant mortality: Evidence from an anti‐poverty policy in Northeast Brazil4
Impact of tariff refinement on the choice between scheduled C‐section and normal delivery: Evidence from France4
Mothers' school starting age and infant health4
Violence and newborn health: Estimates for Colombia4
A panel vector autoregression analysis for the dynamics of medical and long‐term care expenditures4
Do elections make you sick? Evidence from first‐time voters4
Community‐level health programs and child labor: Evidence from Ethiopia4
Baby bonus in Switzerland: Effects on fertility, newborn health, and birth‐scheduling4
Substitution and Complementarity in the Consumption of Alcohol, Cannabis, and Opium4
Do good carefully: The long‐term effects of low‐dose DDT exposure in early childhood on education, marriage and employment4
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Public health crisis and risky road behaviors4
Implementation and spillovers of local non‐pharmaceutical interventions4
Regional variation in prescription drug spending: Evidence from regional migrants in Sweden4
Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage4
Getting used to terrorist threats? Evidence from French terrorist attacks between 2015 and 20164
Free school meals and cognitive ability: Evidence from China's student nutrition improvement plan4
Does providing free internet access to low‐income households affect COVID‐19 spread?4
Does weight impact adolescent mental health? Evidence from China4
The Effects of Hydrological Disasters on the Population's Health in the Northeast Region of Brazil4
Impact of COVID‐19 lockdowns on mental health: Evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment in England and Scotland4
Long‐term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China4
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Why do narrow network plans cost less?4
The curse of modernization? Western fast food and Chinese children's weight4
Modeling to inform economy‐wide pandemic policy: Bringing epidemiologists and economists together4
The impact of COVID‐related economic shocks on household mental health in Pakistan4
Patient‐centered appraisal of race‐free clinical risk assessment4
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Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions and maternal morbidity4
Have Dutch Hospitals Saved Lives and Reduced Costs? A longitudinal patient‐level analysis over the years 2013–20174
Medical cannabis and automobile accidents: Evidence from auto insurance4
Flipping the script: The effects of opioid prescription monitoring on specialty‐specific provider behavior4
Facility standards and the quality of public sector primary care: Evidence from South Africa's “Ideal Clinics” program4
Consequences of serious parental health events on child mental health and educational outcomes3
The effect of aging out of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program on food insecurity3
Partially different? The importance of general equilibrium in health economic evaluations: An application to nocturia3
Immediate and informative feedback during a pandemic: Using stated preference analysis to predict vaccine uptake rates3
Economic Value of Informal Care: Contingent Valuation From the Perspective of Caregivers and Care Recipients in China3
Not all respondents use a multiplicative utility function in choice experiments for health state valuations, which should be reflected in the elicitation format (or statistical analysis)3
The impact of the Oakland SSB tax on prices and volume sold: A study of intended and unintended consequences3
Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods3
The effects of false identification laws on underage alcohol‐related traffic fatalities3
Health effects of a ban on late‐night alcohol sales3
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There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home‐Based Care on the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Older People3
Harmonizing regulatory market approval of products with high safety requirements: Evidence from the European pharmaceutical market3
Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics3
Spreading the disease: Protest in times of pandemics3
The impact of Community Health Centers on inappropriate use of emergency services3
Unmet health care need and income‐Related horizontal equity in use of health care during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
The value of health—Empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a quality‐adjusted life year based on well‐being data3
A unified framework to account for selective mortality in lifecycle analyses of the social gradient in health3
Air pollution and the burden of long‐term care: Evidence from China3
Impacts of Housing Costs on Health and Satisfaction With Life Circumstances: Evidence From Australia3
Health care use in response to health shocks: Does socio‐economic status matter?3
How do surrogates make treatment decisions for patients with dementia: An experimental survey study3
Prenatal air pollution exposure and neonatal health3
Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing3
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Terrorism and child mortality3
The impact of the Mamata conditional cash transfer program on child nutrition in Odisha, India3
Prenatal substance use policies and newborn health3
Pushing the boundaries of evaluation, diffusion, and use of medical devices in Europe: Insights from the COMED project3
Petrol prices and obesity3
Bandwagoning, free‐riding and heterogeneity in influenza vaccine decisions: An online experiment3
Discrete choice analysis of health worker job preferences in Ethiopia: Separating attribute non‐attendance from taste heterogeneity3
The demand for health turns 50: Reflections3
Estimating the heterogeneous health and well‐being returns to social participation3
Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? Evidence from the United States during a pandemic3
Drinking in despair: Unintended consequences of automation in China3
Health status and the Great Recession. Evidence from electronic health records3
The complementarity of drug monitoring programs and health IT for reducing opioid‐related mortality and morbidity3
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Smoothing consumption in times of illness: Household recourse mechanisms3
To be or not to be: Future lives in economic evaluation3
Specification of the health production function and its behavioral implications3
Exposure in utero to adverse events and health late‐in‐life: Evidence from China3
Extreme temperatures, mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from the county level in China3
Extreme temperatures during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: Evidence from 2009 to 2018 U.S. national birth data3
The effects of education on mortality: Evidence using college expansions3
Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model3
Motivation and competition in health care3
Implementation of coverage with evidence development schemes for medical devices: A decision tool for late technology adopter countries3
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