{"title":"Expression of Concern: \"Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales\" [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860].","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"102957"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144086989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102859]","authors":"Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen , Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes , Delia Furtado","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102993"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143943650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]","authors":"Rahi Abouk , Prabal De , Michael F. Pesko","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102999","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102999"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143943648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses","authors":"Yujie Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the impact of price transparency on healthcare prices, using a natural experiment involving the gradual disclosure of medical procedure prices on a state-run website. The study finds that negotiated allowed amounts decreased by 5.1% for surgical procedures and 9.1% for radiology procedures, which have higher average allowed amounts and attracted more price requests on the website. In contrast, for lab procedures, the evidence is mixed and does not point to a clear effect. The observed reductions are primarily driven by provider–insurer negotiations rather than patient price shopping. Price reductions were consistent across all providers and insurers, regardless of whether their prices were listed on the transparency website, and extended to providers in neighboring states.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impacts of health shocks on household labor supply and domestic production","authors":"Giovanni Di Meo, Onur Eryilmaz","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102992","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the impact of severe health shocks on labor supply decisions and domestic production within German households. We draw from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), focusing on individuals aged 25 to 55 at the time of their first observed health shock. After the health shock, we find that affected individuals suffer a persistent loss in annual gross labor income of around 4,000 euros. This effect results mostly from adjustments at the extensive margin, with labor market participation declining by about 16%. We observe a reduction in full-time employment, but no significant effect on part-time employment. At the household level, a combination of public transfers and added worker effect effectively compensates for the income loss. Finally, individuals experiencing a health shock, particularly women, spend more time on domestic production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102992"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143847796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social genetic insurance: A life-cycle perspective","authors":"Hélène Schernberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Temporal risk aversion can justify a social genetic insurance scheme, even in the absence of reclassification risk. I model individuals who take a genetic test in period 0 and may become ill in period 2. I show that redistributing from low-risk to high-risk individuals in period 1 can increase social welfare, even when the high-risk are not financially penalized. Temporally risk-averse individuals value reductions in the risk to their lifetime utility brought by illness, such as increased morbidity and mortality. A social insurance can achieve this by taxing the low-risk and subsidizing the high-risk. I calibrate a multi-period life-cycle model for breast cancer and Huntington’s disease and quantify the optimal redistribution. For these two conditions, which are rare, substantial transfers to the high-risk can be achieved with minimal taxation on the low-risk. Thus, the welfare of the high-risk is substantially improved with little impact on the low-risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102994"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143865032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring: Evidence from routine health examinations in early childhood","authors":"Yinhe Liang , Xiaobo Peng , Meiping Aggie Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102972","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102972","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a public health program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0–6 years) in China. Using data on the program’s county-by-county rollout, we find that full exposure to the SMC from birth increases adult income by 5%. We further provide evidence that the introduction to the SMC leads to improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102972"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Serena Yu , Kei Lui , Denzil G Fiebig , Javeed Travadi , Caroline SE Homer , Lynn Sinclair , Vanessa Scarf , Rosalie Viney
{"title":"The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life","authors":"Serena Yu , Kei Lui , Denzil G Fiebig , Javeed Travadi , Caroline SE Homer , Lynn Sinclair , Vanessa Scarf , Rosalie Viney","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102995","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Advances in evidence-based neonatal care have led to large improvements in the survival rates of high-risk newborns. Yet studies have documented wide variation in the care of more prevalent moderate-risk infants, who comprise a much larger proportion of admissions to neonatal care. In this study, we build on a small literature which uses quasi-experimental design to understand the impact of neonatal care, and for the first time, examine this moderate-risk cohort of infants. We use individual-level data on the full population of births in the state of New South Wales, Australia to examine the impact of neonatal care on the healthcare use of moderate-risk infants in the first two years of life. We implement a regression discontinuity design exploiting admission protocols based on birthweight among neonatal units of three different and explicit levels of capability. Unlike previous studies, which examine differences in outcomes across the high-risk cut-off at 1500 g, our study examines differences for moderate-risk infants born near birthweight cut-offs closer to normal birth weight (2500 g). While admission to the neonatal unit jumps across the cut-off, we find modest impacts on downstream healthcare use, including both in-hospital and out-of-hospital care. However, we identify heterogeneous effects across varying capability levels. Moderate risk infants admitted to lower capability neonatal units received more cost-intensive care, resulting in reduced healthcare use following discharge from hospital, while the same was not observed for those admitted to the highest capability units. We suggest that this is due to more aggressive clinical management at lower capability units, and leave this as a priority for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102995"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procurement institutions and essential drug supply in low and middle-income countries","authors":"Lucy Xiaolu Wang , Nahim Bin Zahur","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>International procurement institutions play an important role in drug supply. We study price, delivery, and procurement lead time of drug products for major infectious diseases (antiretrovirals, antimalarials, antituberculosis, and antibiotics) in 106 developing countries from 2007–2017 across procurement institution types. We find that pooled procurement lowers prices: pooling internationally is most effective for small buyers and concentrated markets, while pooling within-country is most effective for large buyers and unconcentrated markets. Pooling can reduce delays, but at the cost of longer anticipated procurement lead times. Finally, pooled procurement is more effective for older drugs, compared to patent pooling institutions that target newer drugs. Our findings are robust to alternative fixed effects specifications, instrumental variable estimation, selection-on-unobservables tests, and additional analyses accounting for heterogeneity in demand elasticities across buyers and interactions with major global health initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102996"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143839738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does physician-hospital vertical integration signal care-coordination? Evidence from mover-stayer analysis of commercially insured enrollees","authors":"William Encinosa , Avi Dor","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.102997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sharp growth in physician groups being purchased by hospitals has sparked extensive policy debate, with little evidence on the merits of such integration. We fill the gap by examining care-coordination under integration. We exploit the fact that integration varies across MSAs and focus on PPO patients with employment-based moves between MSAs. We develop a mover-stayer model with heterogenous effects to examine whether vertically integrated practices treat patients differently, or whether they just treat different patients. Moving to a more integrated market causes an increase in care coordination indices. Specifically, moving to an area with more specialty care integration causes an increase in team referrals between primary and specialty care, less lab and imaging use, less out-of-network care, and reductions in spending. That is, systems are able to narrow the scope of specialty services overall, hence creating greater social efficiencies. Moving to a market with more integrated primary care causes an increase in preventive care, decreased inpatient use by women, but an increase in spending. JEL I11, L14, C22.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102997"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}