Health Economics

Papers
(The TQCC of Health Economics is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Only the fit survive recessions: Estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle73
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Estimating an exchange‐rate between care‐related and health‐related quality of life outcomes for economic evaluation: An application of the wellbeing valuation method54
Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: Evidence from linked national Medicare claims data39
Vaccine‐skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions38
Lessons learned? Intended and unintended effects of India's second‐generation maternal cash transfer scheme37
The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders30
Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession‐linked declines in healthcare access and health status29
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 data29
Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal28
From prevention to treatment: Prescription medication, information, and health behaviors28
The Growth of Illicit Drug Use and Its Effects on Murder Rates27
Rainfall shocks, child mortality, and water infrastructure25
Whose mental health declines during economic downturns?25
The effects of graduated driver licensing on teenage body weight24
Long term care insurance with state‐dependent preferences22
Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables22
Linear mixed models to handle missing at random data in trial‐based economic evaluations21
The role of civic capital on vaccination21
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence21
Understanding the distributional impacts of health insurance reform: Evidence from a consumer cost‐sharing program20
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Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors20
The value of health—Empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a quality‐adjusted life year based on well‐being data19
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Medical cannabis and automobile accidents: Evidence from auto insurance18
Mothers' school starting age and infant health18
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The demand for health turns 50: Reflections17
Marketing Status and Brand‐Name Drug Prices: Evidence From Rx‐To‐OTC Switch17
Health care use in response to health shocks: Does socio‐economic status matter?17
Petrol prices and obesity16
Fair Innings: An Empirical Test16
Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics16
Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods16
Immediate and informative feedback during a pandemic: Using stated preference analysis to predict vaccine uptake rates15
The curse of modernization? Western fast food and Chinese children's weight15
Can decision field theory enhance our understanding of health‐based choices? Evidence from risky health behaviors15
Implementation and spillovers of local non‐pharmaceutical interventions15
Specification of the health production function and its behavioral implications15
Does Publicly‐Funded Adult Social Care Impact Informal and Unpaid Carers' Quality of Life in England?14
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Using causal forests to assess heterogeneity in cost‐effectiveness analysis14
Patient‐centered appraisal of race‐free clinical risk assessment13
Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients13
Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model13
The effect of combat deployments on veteran opioid abuse13
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The effect of birth timing manipulation around carnival on birth indicators in Brazil12
Capital flight and public health outcomes in Africa12
Health Professional Shortage Area Bonus Payments and Access to Care Under Medicare12
An extra hour wasted? Bar closing hours and traffic accidents in Norway12
The effect of prescription drug insurance on the incidence of potentially inappropriate prescribing: Evidence from Medicare Part D12
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Adding to the Woes: Heterogeneous Effects of Air Pollution on Pandemic Patients12
Daylight Saving Time and Automobile Accidents: Evidence From Chile12
Catastrophic health‐care payments and multidimensional poverty: Are they related?12
Patients' free choice of physicians is not always good12
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Lasting scars: The impact of depression in early adulthood on subsequent labor market outcomes11
How access to addictive drugs affects the supply of substance abuse treatment: Evidence from Medicare Part D11
Long‐Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance11
The effects of multi‐disciplinary integrated care on healthcare utilization: Evidence from a natural experiment in the UK11
Toward mandatory health insurance in low‐income countries? An analysis of claims data in Tanzania11
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School starting age policy and students' risky health behaviors11
School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion11
Office‐based mental healthcare and juvenile arrests11
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The effect of “failed” community mental health centers on non‐white mortality11
Should developing countries ban dual practice by physicians? Analysis under mixed hospital competition11
Incomplete information and irrelevant attributes in stated‐preference values for health interventions10
Drug Decriminalization and Fatal Traffic Crashes: Evidence From BM110 in Oregon10
Supporting the revision of the health benefits package in Uganda: A constrained optimisation approach10
Externality and policy intervention in interregional travel with infectious diseases10
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Aggregation Bias and Socioeconomic Gradients in Waiting Time for Hospital Admissions10
A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health10
The effect of beverage taxes on youth consumption and body mass index: Evidence from Mauritius9
Hospital‐physician integration and risk‐coding intensity9
The impact of juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates9
How do hospitals respond to payment unbundling for diagnostic imaging of suspected cancer patients?9
Physician responses to insurance benefit restrictions: The case of ophthalmology9
Back to basics: A mediation analysis approach to addressing the fundamental questions of integrated care evaluations9
The effect of vertical identification card laws on teenage tobacco and alcohol use9
Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters9
Estimating the value of life expectancy gains in Tanzania using the life satisfaction and model based approaches9
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Long‐term mental health cost of the Great Chinese Famine9
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How real can we get in generating real world evidence? Exploring the opportunities of routinely collected administrative data for evaluation of medical devices8
An approach to quantify parameter uncertainty in early assessment of novel health technologies8
The effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities8
Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs8
The direct and spillover effects of diabetes diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours8
Omnibus or Ominous immigration laws? Immigration policy and mental health of the Hispanic population8
Short‐term effect of retirement on health: Evidence from nonparametric fuzzy regression discontinuity design8
Spillovers From Medicaid Contraceptive Use to Non‐Medicaid Patients: Evidence From New York8
Mosquito‐borne disease and newborn health7
Legalization and retail availability of recreational marijuana and adolescent use in schools7
The effect of hospital spending on waiting times7
Conditional cash transfers and women's reproductive choices7
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Measuring the spatial distribution of health rankings in the United States7
The effect of distance on maternal institutional delivery choice: Evidence from Malawi7
Comparing healthcare quality: A common framework for both ordinal and cardinal data with an application to primary care variation in England7
Correction to “Valuing QALY gains by applying a societal perspective”7
Stepping into adulthood during a recession: Did job losses during the Great Recession impact health of young adults?7
Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation7
Impacts of Norway's extended free choice reform on waiting times and hospital visits7
The impact of Disability Insurance reassessment on healthcare use7
The effects of a hypertension diagnosis on health behaviors: A two‐dimensional regression discontinuity analysis7
Fear of COVID‐19 contagion and consumption: Evidence from a survey of Italian households7
Should it stay, or swerve? Trading off lives in dilemma situations involving autonomous cars7
Health insurance coverage and health outcomes among transgender adults in the United States7
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The impact of the 2014 Medicaid expansion on the health, health care access, and financial well‐being of low‐income young adults7
Do different means of recording sexual orientation affect its relationship with health and wellbeing?7
Recreational cannabis laws and opioid‐related emergency department visit rates7
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 costs6
Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution6
Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care6
The effect of nurse practitioner scope of practice laws on primary care delivery6
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The effect of parental health shocks on living arrangements and employment6
The health returns of attending university for the marginally eligible student6
The effects of drug safety warnings on drug sales and share prices6
The effects of a national policy to reduce c‐sections in Brazil6
Economic shocks, health, and social protection: The effect of COVID‐19 income shocks on health and mitigation through cash transfers in South Africa6
Selective referral or learning by doing? An analysis of hospital volume‐outcome relationship of vascular procedures6
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 Cana6
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe6
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Inequality in life expectancies across Europe and the US6
Impact of Tobacco‐21 Laws on Maternal Smoking Behavior6
Public health crisis and risky road behaviors6
Coping with the consequences of short‐term illness shocks: The role of intra‐household labor substitution6
The health, economic and social burden of smoking in Argentina, and the impact of increasing tobacco taxes in a context of illicit trade6
Access to health care and mental health—Evidence from the ACA preexisting conditions provision6
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Mental health over the life course: Evidence for a U‐shape?6
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Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs6
Home‐Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter?6
Special economic zone and infant mortality: Evidence from China6
The effects of false identification laws on underage alcohol‐related traffic fatalities6
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From financial wealth shocks to ill‐health: Allostatic load and overload6
A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health6
The Power of Presence: The Impact of Paternity Leave on Child Health in China5
The effects of health spending on the propagation of infectious diseases5
Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis5
A unified framework to account for selective mortality in lifecycle analyses of the social gradient in health5
Do Physicians Respond to Additional Capitation Payments in Mixed Remuneration Schemes?5
The macro‐level effect of religiosity on health5
An analysis of a rural hospital's investment decision under different payment systems5
Healthcare Quality by Specialists Under a Mixed Compensation System: An Empirical Analysis5
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A welfare analysis of Medicaid and recidivism5
Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for breast cancer surgery5
Effect of patient death on referrals to cardiac specialists5
Air pollution and the burden of long‐term care: Evidence from China5
There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home‐Based Care on the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Older People5
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost‐Benefit Trade‐Offs in Health Behavior: An Application to Lockdown Compliance in the United Kingdom5
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Delivering health insurance through informal financial groups: Evidence on moral hazard and adverse selection5
The spark that ignited 40 years of empirical research on health production5
Income gradient of pharmaceutical panic buying at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic5
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Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey5
Effects of rural hospital closures on nurse staffing levels and health care utilization at nearby hospitals5
Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage5
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Effects of the Colorectal Cancer Control Program5
Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics5
The relationship between body mass index and income: Using genetic variants from HUNT as instrumental variables5
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