Journal of Health Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Health Economics is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board104
Politics and health care spending in the United States: A case study from the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act85
Pricing regulations in individual health insurance: Evidence from Medigap74
Do minimum wage laws affect employer-sponsored insurance provision?66
Health insurance portability and coverage: Evidence from China’s cross-regional instant reimbursement reform41
Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales41
Changing preferences: An experiment and estimation of market-incentive effects on altruism39
Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado39
Editorial Board39
Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth38
Health dynamics and reporting bias at retirement: An analysis using high-frequency data36
The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study35
The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog33
Consent-based laws and aggregate fertility32
Biological age and predicting future health care utilisation30
Pharmaceutical demand response to utilization management29
Disruptions to healthcare quality and early child health outcomes: Evidence from health-worker strikes in Kenya24
Pricing above value: Selling to a market with selection problems23
Nursing home payroll subsidies and the trade-off between staffing and access to care for Medicaid enrollees23
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure23
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]23
Learner driving experience and motor vehicle accidents23
Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology22
When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision22
The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica22
Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life22
Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?21
Contraceptive access and infant health outcomes21
Corrigendum to “The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use” [Journal of Health Economics, 102, August 2025, 103013]20
Intertemporal coordination in volunteer markets20
Integrating equity and productivity in health evaluation19
Editorial Board19
The formation of physician altruism19
Individualized disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses19
Living alone and provider behaviour in public and private hospitals19
The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment18
Editorial Board18
The hidden toll of the pandemic: Excess mortality in non-COVID-19 hospital patients18
On the bright side of market concentration in a mixed-oligopoly healthcare industry17
The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage17
Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses16
Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment16
Rents for Pills: Financial incentives and physician behavior16
The impact of vertical integration on health care delivery and costs: Evidence from physician–pharmacy integration16
What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exit of Cuban doctors in Brazil15
Back to school: The effect of school visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 outcomes15
Nurse practitioner training and local medical provider supply14
The impact of automatic enrolment on the mental health gap in pension participation: Evidence from the UK14
Expression of Concern: “Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102860]14
Polluted air, healthier diets: Household food consumption patterns in response to air quality in China14
The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank13
What’s in the water? Long-run effects of fluoridation on health and economic self-sufficiency13
Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors’ referrals?13
Efficient use of immunosuppressants for kidney transplants13
Workforce impacts of subsidised mental healthcare: Evidence on supply, geographic distribution, and earnings13
Corrigendum to “Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 96, June 2024, 102883]12
Overstretched: Financial distress and intimate partner violence in the U.S.12
Marijuana legalization and opioid deaths12
Comparing long-term educational effects of two early childhood health interventions12
Workload and team performance in health care: Evidence from Kenya12
Do mandatory waiting periods for abortion increase intimate partner violence?11
Effects of organized screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe11
Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal11
Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws10
The impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice laws on preventable hospitalizations10
The morning after: Prescription-free access to emergency contraceptive pills10
The effects of pregnancy-related Medicaid expansions on maternal, infant, and child health10
Effects of informal caring on labour market outcomes of carers: Evidence from HILDA10
Physician responses to Medicare reimbursement rates10
The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data9
Using stock price movements to estimate the harm from collusive drug patent litigation settlements9
Spatial dependence in physicians’ prices and additional fees: Evidence from France9
Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans9
Disability insurance screening and worker health9
Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine9
Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news9
Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital9
Hospital billing regulations and financial well-being: Evidence from California’s Fair Pricing Law9
Intergenerational effects of sick leave on child human capital8
Corrigendum to “Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales” [Journal of Health Economics, volume 94 (2024) 102860]8
Editorial Board8
Lost in the net? Broadband internet and youth mental health8
The labour market returns to sleep8
Abortion access and child protective services involvement8
When do supply-side drug control policies save lives? Evidence from pharmacy methadone restrictions8
Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?8
QALYs, DALYs, and HALYs: A unifying framework for the evaluation of population health8
Attentional processes underlying health state valuation with time trade-off and standard gamble tasks8
Patient and peer: Guideline design and expert response8
Soil zinc deficiency and child stunting: Evidence from Nepal8
Editorial Board8
An optimal mechanism to fund the development of vaccines against emerging epidemics8
Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data7
Harm reduction for addictive consumption: When does it improve health and when does it backfire?7
Taking the competitor’s pill: When combination therapies enter pharmaceutical markets7
Mental health, substance use, and child maltreatment7
Abortion restrictions and intimate partner violence in the Dobbs Era7
The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life7
How does undervaluation in medical savings accounts (MSAs) affect healthcare utilization? Evidence from administrative data in China7
Editorial Board7
Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopaedic surgeons?7
The long term benefits of the measles vaccine in Mexico7
Regression and decomposition with ordinal health outcomes7
The maternal and infant health consequences of restricted access to abortion in the United States6
Is supported employment effective for Disability Insurance recipients with mental health conditions? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Belgium6
The effect of Internet access on body weight: Evidence from China6
Do tobacco 21 laws work?6
Adoption and utilization of device-assisted telemedicine6
The kids aren’t alright: The effects of medical marijuana market size on adolescents6
Physician practice preferences and healthcare expenditures: Evidence from commercial payers6
The time cost of a disability6
The Road to Healthier Diet: Benefits of the “Five Vertical and Seven Horizontal” National Trunk Highway System in China6
Understanding the relationship between nonprofit hospital community benefit spending and system membership: An analysis of independent hospital acquisitions6
Corrigendum to “Immigration enforcement and the institutionalization of elderly Americans” [Journal of Health Economics Volume 94, March 2024, 102859]6
Editorial Board6
Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design6
Out of time? The effect of an infrequent traumatic event on individuals’ time and risk preferences, beliefs, and insurance purchasing6
Editorial Board6
On resource allocation in health care: The case of concierge medicine6
Providers, peers and patients. How do physicians’ practice environments affect patient outcomes?6
Competition, quality and integrated health care6
Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India6
Medical ethics and physician motivations6
Who responds to longer wait times? The effects of predicted emergency wait times on the health and volume of patients who present for care6
Adverse selection and network design under regulated plan prices: Evidence from Medicaid6
Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program6
The impact of health shocks on housing instability: Evidence from urban Medicaid enrollees5
Can mHealth campaigns improve CCT outcomes? Experimental evidence from sms-nudges in Indonesia5
Competition matters: Uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals5
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India5
Unhooking the past: Early-life exposure to hookworm eradication and later-life longevity5
State mental health insurance parity laws and college educational outcomes5
Socioeconomic inequality in access to timely and appropriate care in emergency departments5
Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?5
The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom5
Nursing shortages and patient outcomes5
Mental health and mortality trends in the United States5
Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities5
Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation5
Editorial Board5
The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior5
Heat and worker health5
Editorial Board4
Mask mandates save lives4
Corrigendum to “Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Increase Organ Donor Registrations” [Journal of Health Economics, 97, 102914, 2024]4
Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?4
Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior4
The impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program on Critical Access Hospitals: Evidence from Medicare Part B4
Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? Evidence from households in extreme poverty4
Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance4
The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales4
Estimating the welfare gains from anti-retroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa4
The marginal benefit of hospitals: Evidence from the effect of entry and exit on utilization and mortality rates4
Prescribing power and equitable access to care: Evidence from pharmacists in Ontario, Canada4
Hooked on weight control: An economic theory of anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity4
Impacts of health checkup programs standardization on working-age self-employed and unemployed: Insights from Japan’s local government response to national policy4
Hospital competition when patients learn through experience4
Prioritisation, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed healthcare system4
Effects of income on infant health: Evidence from the expanded child tax credit and pandemic stimulus checks4
How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law4
Hidden hazards and screening policy: Predicting undetected lead exposure in Illinois3
The impact of immunotherapy on reductions in cancer mortality: Evidence from Medicare3
The effect of RCTs on drug demand: Evidence from off-label cancer drugs3
Editorial Board3
Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences3
Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States3
Supply-side opioid restrictions and the retail pharmacy market3
Do for-profit hospitals cream-skim patients? Evidence from inpatient psychiatric care in California3
How do hospitals respond to input regulation? Evidence from the California nurse staffing mandate3
Conversion therapy, suicidality, and running away: An analysis of transgender youth in the U.S.3
Does physician-hospital vertical integration signal care-coordination? Evidence from mover-stayer analysis of commercially insured enrollees3
Minimum legal drinking age and educational outcomes3
Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage3
Parental health penalty on adult children’s employment: Gender differences and long-term consequences3
Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign3
The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market3
A structural microsimulation model for demand-side cost-sharing in healthcare3
The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition3
Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused3
Online food delivery and body weight: Quasi-experimental evidence from China3
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