Health Economics 33(2): Learn all about conditional cash transfers and reproductive choices, gun buy-backs and gun violence in Australia, how naturalization affects immigrant health, and how lack of insurance affects children in China. Check it out 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991050/2…

DEADLINE APPROACHING! The deadline to nominate someone for the IHEA Student Paper Prize is a week from today on January 18. This is a wonderful way to recognize the next generation of scholars, so please consider making a nomination. healtheconomics.org/awards/#:~:tex…

Health Economics (Early View): What does choice of provider do for system efficiency and patient outcome? Ge et al. study the effect of expanding access to private care in Norway. Competition with private hospitals didn't improve wait time or access. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): It may be hard to detect in more developed economies, but in places with traditionally poor access to health insurance the benefits are clear. Check out Aiyar and Sundar on the mortality benefits of HI access here. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Health Economics (Early View): Early childhood health shocks have long term effects on health into adulthood. In a sibling study Lebenbaum and colleagues find that negative health shocks interact with reduced social capital to have persistent impact. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

📖 #ReferenciasAES Lebenbaum, M., de Oliveira, C., Gagnon, F., & Laporte, A. (2024) "Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation" #HealthEconomics HEC Editors 🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…

Health Economics (Early View): Type II diabetes is a serious health condition with increasing prevalence. In the silver linings department, Llewellyn Thomas and Mentzakis find causal effects of a diagnosis on exercise and spillovers to family members. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): And now for something completely different! Imagine you're an autonomous car. You have to choose to smash a human or let your human passengers come to harm. Don't know what to do? That's OK, Habla et al. have your back! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): Public health management of COVID became political. Did that change behaviors? Sternberg and colleagues assess the impact of social preferences on the degree of compliance with distancing requirements in public and private. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

The journal Health Affairs has posted several openings for summer internships for students interested in health policy. If you (or your students) are interested see: healthaffairs.org/jobs?utm_campa…

Health Economics (Early View): Gutierrez & Boss have a new paper examining experimental evidence on consumers' choice of health insurance. Bottom line: interventions that reduce informational frictions can have real benefits when designed correctly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): On a sad day, with the announcement of Danny Kahneman's passing, Balsa, Noboa, and Triunfo are out with a new paper demonstrating that nudges can encourage healthier food choices - though it's not always veg. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Health Economics (Early View): Beland, Huh, & Kim examine the relationship between opioid marketing and traffic deaths. States with more Oxycontin marketing (no triplicate laws) had 2.4 times more traffic fatalities from 2011-2019, esp for ages 25-44. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Health Economics (Early View): David Glynn and coauthors explore how machine learning can be used with economic evaluation tools to better target treatment choice architectures. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): Joe Spearling (UGA Terry College, soon The Centre for Health Economics) has a new paper examining the role of retirement eligibility on mental health in the UK. The good news: everyone benefits. The just-ok news: some benefit more than others. Details 👇: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): Let's admit that understanding US pharmaceutical pricing is a nightmare. Even the US BLS has a hard time. Hicks, Berndt, and Frank explore a major gap in the CPI-Rx from missing specialty drug sales and propose a fix.👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Pleased to share our new publication at HEC Editors with Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra-Sastre - Efficiency and productivity gains of robotic surgery: The case of the English National Health Service onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…

Health Economics (Early View): Anne Oxholm and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen have a paper out today examining how physician attitudes for prioritization influence access. Physicians who believe poor health patients deserve more attention tend to follow through. See 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Health Economics (Early View): Bolin & Caputo generalize the health production function to capture cyclical health and investment patterns. They identify key conditions for this behavior and compare the framework to the canonical model. Check it out below. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…