Health Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Health Economics is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal50
Only the fit survive recessions: Estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle47
Deploying Differential Distance as an Instrumental Variable: Alternative Forms, Estimators, and Specifications47
The role of civic capital on vaccination43
Vaccine‐skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions43
From prevention to treatment: Prescription medication, information, and health behaviors42
The Growth of Illicit Drug Use and Its Effects on Murder Rates31
The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders30
Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: Evidence from linked national Medicare claims data29
Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession‐linked declines in healthcare access and health status27
Scale, Skill‐Mix, and Access Implications of the Production of Appointments by Primary Care Practices in England27
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence26
The Mental Health Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Health and Social Care Workers25
Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Mental Health Around Pregnancy24
Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables23
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The demand for health turns 50: Reflections21
Can decision field theory enhance our understanding of health‐based choices? Evidence from risky health behaviors21
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Does Publicly‐Funded Adult Social Care Impact Informal and Unpaid Carers' Quality of Life in England?18
Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors18
Specification of the health production function and its behavioral implications18
Medical cannabis and automobile accidents: Evidence from auto insurance17
Patient‐centered appraisal of race‐free clinical risk assessment17
Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults16
Implementation and spillovers of local non‐pharmaceutical interventions16
Marketing Status and Brand‐Name Drug Prices: Evidence From Rx‐To‐OTC Switch16
Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods16
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Fair Innings: An Empirical Test15
Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics15
Mothers' school starting age and infant health15
Capital flight and public health outcomes in Africa14
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The effect of prescription drug insurance on the incidence of potentially inappropriate prescribing: Evidence from Medicare Part D14
Lasting scars: The impact of depression in early adulthood on subsequent labor market outcomes14
Return on Returns: Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries14
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Trends in Selection Into Medicare Advantage13
Toward mandatory health insurance in low‐income countries? An analysis of claims data in Tanzania13
The effect of combat deployments on veteran opioid abuse13
An extra hour wasted? Bar closing hours and traffic accidents in Norway13
Adding to the Woes: Heterogeneous Effects of Air Pollution on Pandemic Patients13
Health Professional Shortage Area Bonus Payments and Access to Care Under Medicare13
The effect of birth timing manipulation around carnival on birth indicators in Brazil13
Catastrophic health‐care payments and multidimensional poverty: Are they related?12
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Daylight Saving Time and Automobile Accidents: Evidence From Chile12
Aggregation Bias and Socioeconomic Gradients in Waiting Time for Hospital Admissions12
Should developing countries ban dual practice by physicians? Analysis under mixed hospital competition12
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Drug Decriminalization and Fatal Traffic Crashes: Evidence From BM110 in Oregon12
School starting age policy and students' risky health behaviors12
The effect of “failed” community mental health centers on non‐white mortality11
Externality and policy intervention in interregional travel with infectious diseases11
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School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion11
Pharmaceutical Pricing and R&D as a Global Public Good11
Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters11
Income and Health Care Consumption: Evidence From Mortgage Payment Shocks11
Supporting the revision of the health benefits package in Uganda: A constrained optimisation approach11
The effects of multi‐disciplinary integrated care on healthcare utilization: Evidence from a natural experiment in the UK11
Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy10
Office‐based mental healthcare and juvenile arrests10
A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health10
Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation10
The Spillover Effects of a City‐Wide Global Budget and Case‐Based Payment Reform on Inbound Non‐Resident Patients10
Long‐Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance10
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The direct and spillover effects of diabetes diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours10
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Physician responses to insurance benefit restrictions: The case of ophthalmology10
Pandemic Babies: Medical Care Delays in Utero and Infant Birth Outcomes10
The impact of juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates9
How real can we get in generating real world evidence? Exploring the opportunities of routinely collected administrative data for evaluation of medical devices9
Short‐term effect of retirement on health: Evidence from nonparametric fuzzy regression discontinuity design9
Guidance or Misdirection? Unpacking the Role of Feedback in Health Preference Assessments9
Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs9
Neglected Tropical Diseases, Health, and Education: Evidence From China9
Back to basics: A mediation analysis approach to addressing the fundamental questions of integrated care evaluations9
Spillovers From Medicaid Contraceptive Use to Non‐Medicaid Patients: Evidence From New York9
Influenza Vaccination and Occupational Social Intensity: Evidence From U.S. Workers9
Estimating the value of life expectancy gains in Tanzania using the life satisfaction and model based approaches9
The effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities9
Conditional cash transfers and women's reproductive choices9
How do hospitals respond to payment unbundling for diagnostic imaging of suspected cancer patients?8
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Cognitive, Noncognitive, and Social Skills and Alcohol Consumption8
Correction to “Valuing QALY gains by applying a societal perspective”8
Omnibus or Ominous immigration laws? Immigration policy and mental health of the Hispanic population8
The effect of hospital spending on waiting times8
The Repeal of Noneconomic Damage Caps and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums8
The impact of the 2014 Medicaid expansion on the health, health care access, and financial well‐being of low‐income young adults8
The Effects of Medical and Recreational Cannabis Laws on Prescription Drug Claims in Commercial Group Insurance Markets8
Long‐term mental health cost of the Great Chinese Famine8
The effect of vertical identification card laws on teenage tobacco and alcohol use8
Should it stay, or swerve? Trading off lives in dilemma situations involving autonomous cars8
Comparing healthcare quality: A common framework for both ordinal and cardinal data with an application to primary care variation in England8
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Impacts of Norway's extended free choice reform on waiting times and hospital visits7
The Effect of Voluntary Staying at Home on Japanese Female Suicide During the COVID‐19 Pandemic7
Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution7
Bivariate Copula‐Based Regression for Joint Modeling of Healthcare Visits7
Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care7
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 Cana7
Legalization and retail availability of recreational marijuana and adolescent use in schools7
The impact of Disability Insurance reassessment on healthcare use7
Home‐Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter?7
Impact of Tobacco‐21 Laws on Maternal Smoking Behavior7
Economic shocks, health, and social protection: The effect of COVID‐19 income shocks on health and mitigation through cash transfers in South Africa7
The effect of parental health shocks on living arrangements and employment7
You've Been Framed: The Impact of Risk and Time Framings on Contraceptive Preferences in a Discrete Choice Experiment7
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Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)7
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Selective referral or learning by doing? An analysis of hospital volume‐outcome relationship of vascular procedures7
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 costs7
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe7
Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia7
Effects of rural hospital closures on nurse staffing levels and health care utilization at nearby hospitals6
Air pollution and the burden of long‐term care: Evidence from China6
Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions6
Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs6
Mental health over the life course: Evidence for a U‐shape?6
Special economic zone and infant mortality: Evidence from China6
From financial wealth shocks to ill‐health: Allostatic load and overload6
Do Fossil Fuel Subsidies Crowd Out Health Expenditure? A Country‐Level Longitudinal Analysis6
Public health crisis and risky road behaviors6
A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health6
The health, economic and social burden of smoking in Argentina, and the impact of increasing tobacco taxes in a context of illicit trade6
There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home‐Based Care on the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Older People6
Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage6
Do Physicians Respond to Additional Capitation Payments in Mixed Remuneration Schemes?6
Long‐Term Care at Advanced Ages: The Effect of Spousal Bereavement on Institutional Care Needs6
The effects of a national policy to reduce c‐sections in Brazil6
Evaluation of a Partial Ban on Rx‐Rebates in Germany6
Effect of patient death on referrals to cardiac specialists5
Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis5
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost‐Benefit Trade‐Offs in Health Behavior: An Application to Lockdown Compliance in the United Kingdom5
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and related policy responses on non‐COVID‐19 healthcare utilization in China5
Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups5
Media coverage and pandemic behavior: Evidence from Sweden5
Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey5
A welfare analysis of Medicaid and recidivism5
The spark that ignited 40 years of empirical research on health production5
The Power of Presence: The Impact of Paternity Leave on Child Health in China5
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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
Earlier routine induction of labor—Consequences on mother and child morbidity5
Medical Resource Scarcity and Inequality in COVID‐19 Fatality Rates: Evidence From Hospitalized Patients in Wuhan, China5
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Unintended Consequences of Life‐Saving Pharmaceutical Innovations: How HAART Led to the Resurgence of Syphilis5
Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics5
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The social value of a SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine: Willingness to pay estimates from four western countries5
Effects of marriage equality legislation on sexual health of the US population5
Children's Education and Parental Healthcare Utilization: The Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Financial Support5
Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation5
Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for breast cancer surgery5
The effect of hospital‐physician integration on hospital costs5
Do Stronger Employer Responsibilities Enhance Work Accommodation for Sick‐Listed Workers? Evidence From a Dutch Reform4
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The Effect of Information From Black Health Care Professionals on COVID Vaccination Take‐Up4
Socio‐Economic Evolution and Tobacco Products Sales in Spain: A Long‐Term Analysis of the Tobacco Kuznets Curve4
Long‐Term Care Insurance and Catastrophic Health Spending at the End of Life Among Older Adults: Evidence From China4
The impact of a mandatory universal drug insurance program on health behaviors and outcomes4
Co‐payment and adolescents' use of psychologist treatment: Spill over effects on mental health care and on suicide attempts4
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Effects of private health insurance on waiting time in public hospitals4
Vaccination and Risk Aversion: Evidence From a Flu Vaccination Campaign4
Real‐world evidence in health technology assessment of high‐risk medical devices: Fit for purpose?4
The Effects of Resigning GPs on Patient Healthcare Utilization and Some Implications for Health4
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Political polarization and cooperation during a pandemic4
Financial protection in health revisited: Is catastrophic health spending underestimated for service‐ or disease‐specific analysis?4
Together in sickness and in health: Spillover of physical, mental, and cognitive health among older English couples4
Increasing capitation in mixed remuneration schemes: Effects on service provision and process quality of care4
Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects4
Digitalization of Access to Primary Care: Is There an Equity‐Efficiency Trade‐Off?4
Estimating health care costs at scale in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Mathematical notations and frameworks for the application of cost functions4
Flood disasters and health among the urban poor4
Maternal Education and Child Development: Insights From Nutritional Status in Kenya4
Non‐classical measurement error in instrumental variables estimation: An application to the medical care costs of obesity4
Robot Effects on Worker's Compensation Benefits4
Financial incentives and delivery care: Evidence from the Safe Delivery Incentive Program in Nepal4
Historical Racial Oppression and Healthcare Access: Unveiling Disparities Post‐ACA in the American South4
The brother's penalty: Boy preference and girls' health in rural China4
Willingness to Care—Financial Incentives and Caregiving Decisions4
The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies4
I wish I were born in another time: Unintended consequences of immigration enforcement on birth outcomes4
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Are E‐Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence From Canada4
Allocating aid for COVID‐19 support: A constrained optimisation approach4
Using data on biomarkers and siblings to study early‐life economic determinants of type‐2 diabetes4
Income‐Related Inequalities in Future Health Prospects4
Exposure in utero to adverse events and health late‐in‐life: Evidence from China3
Health Shock Effects on Diet: More Severe Shock—Stronger Response?3
Long‐term impacts of an early childhood shock on human capital: Evidence from the 1999 economic crisis in Ecuador3
Economic Value of Informal Care: Contingent Valuation From the Perspective of Caregivers and Care Recipients in China3
Spillover effect of the Patient Drive Payment Model on skilled nursing facility therapy delivery among Medicare Advantage enrollees3
Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market3
Social Comparisons and Adolescent Body Misperception: Evidence From School Entry Cutoffs3
Mortality inequality, spatial differences and health care access3
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Mental health impacts of spousal caregiving intensity in the US3
Ethnic inequality and public health3
The impact of price promotions on sales of unhealthy food and drink products in British retail stores3
Excess deaths by cause and place of death in England and Wales during the first year of COVID‐193
How do surrogates make treatment decisions for patients with dementia: An experimental survey study3
Spreading the disease: Protest in times of pandemics3
Do physicians' attitudes toward prioritization predict poor‐health patients' access to care?3
Job loss and psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal Analysis from residents in nine predominantly African American low‐income neighborhoods3
The effect of health financing systems on health system outcomes: A cross‐country panel analysis3
Incentives to implement personalized medicine under second‐best pricing3
Effects of essential caregiver policies on COVID‐19 and non‐COVID‐19 deaths in nursing homes3
Medicaid expansion and opioid prescriptions: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey3
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The socioeconomic inequity in healthcare utilization among individuals with cardiovascular diseases in India3
Saving light, losing lives: How daylight saving time impacts deaths from suicide and substance abuse3
The Impact of TRAP Laws on the Supply of Maternal Healthcare Providers3
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Labor supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples: Evidence from the UK3
Impacts of Housing Costs on Health and Satisfaction With Life Circumstances: Evidence From Australia3
Vaccine Incentives Harm Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence From a Priming Experiment3
Long‐term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China3
Testing for selection bias and moral hazard in private health insurance: Evidence from a mixed public‐private health system3
The impact of long‐term care insurance on the utilization of inpatient service: Evidence and mechanisms in China3
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Insurer Size and Negotiated Hospital Prices: Insights From the Affordable Care Act in Arkansas3
Pornography usage during adolescence: Does it lead to risky sexual behavior?3
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Growing up without health insurance: Evidence from rural China3
Anti‐Bullying Laws and Weight‐Based Disparities in Suicidality3
Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru3
Value‐Based Pricing for Drugs With Uncertain Clinical Benefits3
Wholesome Lunch to the Whole Classroom: Short‐ and Longer‐Term Effects on Early Teenagers' Weight2
Adoption of hospital diagnosis‐related group financing in Switzerland and the availability of computed tomography scanners2
Strategic Delay and Bargaining Over Public Insurance Coverage for Drugs in Australia2
Air pollution, viral spread and health outcomes evidence from strikes in France2
Eliciting public preferences across health and wellbeing dimensions: An equivalent income value set for SIPHER‐72
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