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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The role of civic capital on vaccination90
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Long term care insurance with state‐dependent preferences69
The effects of graduated driver licensing on teenage body weight42
Joint effects of Medicaid eligibility and fees on recession‐linked declines in healthcare access and health status40
Vaccine‐skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions34
From prevention to treatment: Prescription medication, information, and health behaviors33
Estimating an exchange‐rate between care‐related and health‐related quality of life outcomes for economic evaluation: An application of the wellbeing valuation method32
Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: Evidence from linked national Medicare claims data30
Only the fit survive recessions: Estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle30
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence29
Linear mixed models to handle missing at random data in trial‐based economic evaluations29
Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal28
Whose mental health declines during economic downturns?28
The effects of supported housing for individuals with mental disorders28
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 data27
The Growth of Illicit Drug Use and Its Effects on Murder Rates25
Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables24
Rainfall shocks, child mortality, and water infrastructure23
Deploying Differential Distance as an Instrumental Variable: Alternative Forms, Estimators, and Specifications23
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Marketing Status and Brand‐Name Drug Prices: Evidence From Rx‐To‐OTC Switch20
Understanding the distributional impacts of health insurance reform: Evidence from a consumer cost‐sharing program20
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Immediate and informative feedback during a pandemic: Using stated preference analysis to predict vaccine uptake rates20
Mothers' school starting age and infant health19
Can decision field theory enhance our understanding of health‐based choices? Evidence from risky health behaviors18
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
Implementation and spillovers of local non‐pharmaceutical interventions17
Variation in the infant health effects of the women, infants, and children program by predicted risk using novel machine learning methods17
Health care use in response to health shocks: Does socio‐economic status matter?16
Patient‐centered appraisal of race‐free clinical risk assessment16
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Climate change, health and sustainable healthcare: The role of health economics16
Medical cannabis and automobile accidents: Evidence from auto insurance16
The demand for health turns 50: Reflections16
Does Publicly‐Funded Adult Social Care Impact Informal and Unpaid Carers' Quality of Life in England?16
Petrol prices and obesity15
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Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model15
Fair Innings: An Empirical Test15
The effect of prescription drug insurance on the incidence of potentially inappropriate prescribing: Evidence from Medicare Part D14
An extra hour wasted? Bar closing hours and traffic accidents in Norway14
Patients' free choice of physicians is not always good14
The effect of combat deployments on veteran opioid abuse14
The effect of birth timing manipulation around carnival on birth indicators in Brazil14
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Capital flight and public health outcomes in Africa13
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Adding to the Woes: Heterogeneous Effects of Air Pollution on Pandemic Patients13
Daylight Saving Time and Automobile Accidents: Evidence From Chile13
Health Professional Shortage Area Bonus Payments and Access to Care Under Medicare13
Lasting scars: The impact of depression in early adulthood on subsequent labor market outcomes12
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Catastrophic health‐care payments and multidimensional poverty: Are they related?12
Toward mandatory health insurance in low‐income countries? An analysis of claims data in Tanzania12
Externality and policy intervention in interregional travel with infectious diseases12
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Aggregation Bias and Socioeconomic Gradients in Waiting Time for Hospital Admissions12
How access to addictive drugs affects the supply of substance abuse treatment: Evidence from Medicare Part D11
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Office‐based mental healthcare and juvenile arrests11
Drug Decriminalization and Fatal Traffic Crashes: Evidence From BM110 in Oregon11
Income and Health Care Consumption: Evidence From Mortgage Payment Shocks11
Formal care of the elderly and health outcomes among adult daughters11
Should developing countries ban dual practice by physicians? Analysis under mixed hospital competition10
School starting age policy and students' risky health behaviors10
The effects of multi‐disciplinary integrated care on healthcare utilization: Evidence from a natural experiment in the UK10
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The effect of “failed” community mental health centers on non‐white mortality10
Physician responses to insurance benefit restrictions: The case of ophthalmology10
Long‐Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance10
Hospital‐physician integration and risk‐coding intensity10
Supporting the revision of the health benefits package in Uganda: A constrained optimisation approach10
School‐age vaccination, school openings and Covid‐19 diffusion10
The effect of beverage taxes on youth consumption and body mass index: Evidence from Mauritius10
A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health10
Short‐term effect of retirement on health: Evidence from nonparametric fuzzy regression discontinuity design9
The impact of juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates9
An approach to quantify parameter uncertainty in early assessment of novel health technologies9
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The Spillover Effects of a City‐Wide Global Budget and Case‐Based Payment Reform on Inbound Non‐Resident Patients9
Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy9
The effect of hospital spending on waiting times9
Training labor and treatment behavior: Evidence from physician residency programs9
Spillovers From Medicaid Contraceptive Use to Non‐Medicaid Patients: Evidence From New York9
Correction9
Conditional cash transfers and women's reproductive choices9
Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation9
The effect of vertical identification card laws on teenage tobacco and alcohol use9
How do hospitals respond to payment unbundling for diagnostic imaging of suspected cancer patients?9
Back to basics: A mediation analysis approach to addressing the fundamental questions of integrated care evaluations9
Influenza Vaccination and Occupational Social Intensity: Evidence From U.S. Workers9
Health insurance coverage and health outcomes among transgender adults in the United States8
The effect of opioid use on traffic fatalities8
How real can we get in generating real world evidence? Exploring the opportunities of routinely collected administrative data for evaluation of medical devices8
Mosquito‐borne disease and newborn health8
Should it stay, or swerve? Trading off lives in dilemma situations involving autonomous cars8
Do different means of recording sexual orientation affect its relationship with health and wellbeing?8
Long‐term mental health cost of the Great Chinese Famine8
Estimating the value of life expectancy gains in Tanzania using the life satisfaction and model based approaches8
Omnibus or Ominous immigration laws? Immigration policy and mental health of the Hispanic population8
The impact of the 2014 Medicaid expansion on the health, health care access, and financial well‐being of low‐income young adults8
The impact of Disability Insurance reassessment on healthcare use8
Legalization and retail availability of recreational marijuana and adolescent use in schools8
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The direct and spillover effects of diabetes diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours8
Stepping into adulthood during a recession: Did job losses during the Great Recession impact health of young adults?8
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The effects of a hypertension diagnosis on health behaviors: A two‐dimensional regression discontinuity analysis8
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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Correction to “Valuing QALY gains by applying a societal perspective”7
Measuring the spatial distribution of health rankings in the United States7
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Impact of Tobacco‐21 Laws on Maternal Smoking Behavior7
Selective referral or learning by doing? An analysis of hospital volume‐outcome relationship of vascular procedures7
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
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Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)7
Fear of COVID‐19 contagion and consumption: Evidence from a survey of Italian households7
The Effects of Medical and Recreational Cannabis Laws on Prescription Drug Claims in Commercial Group Insurance Markets7
The effects of a national policy to reduce c‐sections in Brazil7
Effects of Medicare Part D coverage gap closure on utilization of branded and generic drugs7
Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care7
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe7
Home‐Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter?7
Impacts of Norway's extended free choice reform on waiting times and hospital visits7
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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
A flexible copula regression model with Bernoulli and Tweedie margins for estimating the effect of spending on mental health7
Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution7
Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia longitudinal survey6
The effect of hospital‐physician integration on hospital costs6
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Healthcare Quality by Specialists Under a Mixed Compensation System: An Empirical Analysis6
Special economic zone and infant mortality: Evidence from China6
From financial wealth shocks to ill‐health: Allostatic load and overload6
Do Physicians Respond to Additional Capitation Payments in Mixed Remuneration Schemes?6
Economic shocks, health, and social protection: The effect of COVID‐19 income shocks on health and mitigation through cash transfers in South Africa6
The effect of nurse practitioner scope of practice laws on primary care delivery6
The health returns of attending university for the marginally eligible student6
The macro‐level effect of religiosity on health6
Effects of the Colorectal Cancer Control Program6
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Coping with the consequences of short‐term illness shocks: The role of intra‐household labor substitution6
Air pollution and the burden of long‐term care: Evidence from China6
The effect of parental health shocks on living arrangements and employment6
The health, economic and social burden of smoking in Argentina, and the impact of increasing tobacco taxes in a context of illicit trade6
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Public health crisis and risky road behaviors6
The Power of Presence: The Impact of Paternity Leave on Child Health in China6
Childhood‐onset disabilities and lifetime earnings growth: A longitudinal analysis6
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Effects of rural hospital closures on nurse staffing levels and health care utilization at nearby hospitals6
The effects of drug safety warnings on drug sales and share prices6
Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage6
Mental health over the life course: Evidence for a U‐shape?6
Access to health care and mental health—Evidence from the ACA preexisting conditions provision6
There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home‐Based Care on the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Older People6
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost‐Benefit Trade‐Offs in Health Behavior: An Application to Lockdown Compliance in the United Kingdom6
Health insurance and subjective well‐being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States5
Real‐world evidence in health technology assessment of high‐risk medical devices: Fit for purpose?5
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and related policy responses on non‐COVID‐19 healthcare utilization in China5
The Effects of Resigning GPs on Patient Healthcare Utilization and Some Implications for Health5
Are E‐Cigarettes Substitutes or Complements to Combustible Cigarettes Among Youths? Evidence From Canada5
Medical Resource Scarcity and Inequality in COVID‐19 Fatality Rates: Evidence From Hospitalized Patients in Wuhan, China5
The spark that ignited 40 years of empirical research on health production5
Estimating health care costs at scale in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Mathematical notations and frameworks for the application of cost functions5
Effects of marriage equality legislation on sexual health of the US population5
Financial incentives and delivery care: Evidence from the Safe Delivery Incentive Program in Nepal5
Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for breast cancer surgery5
Co‐payment and adolescents' use of psychologist treatment: Spill over effects on mental health care and on suicide attempts5
An analysis of a rural hospital's investment decision under different payment systems5
Children's Education and Parental Healthcare Utilization: The Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Financial Support5
Effect of patient death on referrals to cardiac specialists5
A welfare analysis of Medicaid and recidivism5
Earlier routine induction of labor—Consequences on mother and child morbidity5
The social value of a SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccine: Willingness to pay estimates from four western countries5
Effects of private health insurance on waiting time in public hospitals5
Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups5
Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation5
Media coverage and pandemic behavior: Evidence from Sweden5
Using data on biomarkers and siblings to study early‐life economic determinants of type‐2 diabetes5
Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics5
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