| Editors: | Katherine Baicker, Harvard University |
|---|---|
| Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University | |
| David Cutler, Harvard University | |
| Alan Garber, Stanford University | |
| Dana Goldman, RAND | |
| Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago | |
| Neeraj Sood, RAND | |
| Managing Editor: | John Romley, RAND |
Forum for Health Economics & Policy uses ongoing Forums to showcase research in various areas of health economics and health policy research. The Frontiers in Health Policy Research section of the journal publishes innovative research presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research's annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research Conference.
Frontiers in Health Policy Research
Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
David M. Cutler and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Is Price Inflation Different for the Elderly? An Empirical Analysis of Prescription Drugs
Ernst R. Berndt, Iain M. Cockburn, Douglas L. Cocks, Arnold M. Epstein, and Zvi Griliches
Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures
David M. Cutler and Louise Sheiner
Forums
Aging and Medical Care Costs
Aging and Future Healthcare Expenditure: A Consistent Approach
Lukas Steinmann, Harry Telser, and Peter S. Zweifel
Cross-Country Variation in Obesity Patterns among Older Americans and Europeans
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur H.O. van Soest, and Tatiana Andreyeva
Biomedical Research and the Economy
The Value of Elderly Disease Prevention
Dana P. Goldman, David M. Cutler, Baoping Shang, and Geoffrey F. Joyce
The Labor Market Value of Health Improvements
Jay Bhattacharya and Darius Noshir Lakdawalla
Who Benefits from New Medical Technologies? Estimates of Consumer and Producer Surpluses for HIV/AIDS Drugs
Tomas J. Philipson and Anupam B. Jena
Economics of Health Care Contracting
Dynamic Cost-Effectiveness: A More Efficient Reimbursement Criterion
Douglas Lundin and Joakim Ramsberg
The Cost of Primary Care Doctors
Sherry Glied, Ashwin G. Prabhu, and Norman Edelman
Economics of the HIV Epidemic
The Effect of State Cost Containment Strategies on the Insurance Status and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for HIV Infected People
Arkadipta Ghosh, Neeraj Sood, and Arleen Leibowitz
Risky Sexual Behavior, Testing, and HIV Treatments
Stéphane Mechoulan
Health and Education
The Effects of Adolescent Health on Educational Outcomes: Causal Evidence Using Genetic Lotteries between Siblings
Jason M. Fletcher and Steven F. Lehrer
Health Care Reform
Consumer-Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Have They Worked for Small Business?
Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Health Economics
Real Output in Mental Health Care during the 1990s
Ernst R. Berndt, Alisa B. Busch, Richard G. Frank, and Sharon-Lise Normand
Explanations for Persistent Nursing Shortages
Mark C. Long, Marsha G. Goldfarb, and Robert S. Goldfarb
Quality Effect of Early Discharge of Maternity Patients: Does Hospital Specialization Matter?
Eugenia Amporfu
Health Policy
The Utilization of Medicines beyond Patent Expiration
Edward C. Mansley, Steven M. Teutsch, Dawn M. White, Jamie D. Busza, and Steven S. Geisel
The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes
Phillip B. Levine and Diane Schanzenbach
`Me-Too' Innovation in Pharmaceutical Markets
Anupam B. Jena, John E. Calfee, Edward C. Mansley, and Tomas J. Philipson
Obesity
Fat Taxes: Big Money for Small Change
Hayley H. Chouinard, David E. Davis, Jeffrey T. LaFrance, and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Longer Hours and Larger Waistlines? The Relationship between Work Hours and Obesity
Charles Courtemanche
Prescription Drug Insurance
Substitution, Spending Offsets, and Prescription Drug Benefit Design
Martin Gaynor, Jian Li, and William B. Vogt
Smoking
The Effect of Smoking in Young Adulthood on Smoking Later in Life: Evidence based on the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery
Daniel Eisenberg and Brian Rowe