The Economic Journal

Volume 127, Number 607 – December 2017

Contents:

• Asessing Plan B: The Effect of the Morning After Pill on Children and Women / Andrea Bentancor and Damian Clarke. pP. 2525–2552
• Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: The Islamic Revival in Egypt / Christine Binzel and Jean-Paul Carvalho. PP. 2553–2580
• Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts / Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori.  pP. 2581–2616
• Knowing when to Quit: Default Choices, Demographics and Fraud / Robert Letzler, et al. pp. 2617–2640
  Provision of a Public Good with Multiple Dynasties / Larry Karp. pp. 2641–2664
• Art as a Wartime Investment: Conspicuous Consumption and Discretion / Kim Oosterlinck. pp. 2665–2701
• Demand Reduction in Multi-object Auctions with Resale: An Experimental Analysis / Marco Pagnozzi and Krista J. Saral. pp. 2702–2729
• Why Sex? And why only in Pairs? / Motty Perry, Philip J. Reny and Arthur J. Robson. pp. 2730–2743
  Incentive Contracts and the Allocation of Talent / Yanhui Wu. pp. 2744–2783

Environment and Development Economics

Volume 22, Part 6 – December 2017

Contents:

• Recent advances in empirical analysis on growth and environment: introduction /  George Halkos, Shunsuke Managi. pp. 649-657
• Depletion of the global carbon budget: a user cost approach / Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess. pp. 658-673
• Australia: a land of missed opportunities? / David Greasley, Eoin McLaughlin, Nick Hanley, Les Oxley. pp. 674-698
• Modeling the emissions–income relationship using long-run growth rates / David I. Stern, Reyer Gerlagh, Paul J. Burke. pp. 699-724
• Intermediate input linkage and carbon leakage /  Zengkai Zhang, Zhongxiang Zhang. pp. 725-746
• Investigating the effect of carbon leakage on the environmental Kuznets curve using luminosity data / Arne Steinkraus. pp. 747-770
• CO2 emissions and militarization in G7 countries: panel cointegration and trivariate causality approaches / Melike Bildirici. pp. 771-791

Health Economics

Volume 26, Number 12 – December 2017

Contents:

• The Ambiguous Effect of GP Competition: The Case of Hospital Admissions / M. Kamrul Islam and Egil Kjerstad. pp. 1483-1504
• The Effect of Widowhood on Mental Health – an Analysis of Anticipation Patterns Surrounding the Death of a Spouse / Bettina Siflinger. pp. 1505–1523
• Transforming Latent Utilities to Health Utilities: East Does Not Meet West / Feng Xie, Eleanor Pullenayegum, A. Simon Pickard, Juan Manuel Ramos Goñi, Min-woo Jo and Ataru Igarashi. pp. 1524–1533
• Are Health State Valuations from the General Public Biased? A Test of Health State Reference Dependency Using Self-assessed Health and an Efficient Discrete Choice Experiment / Marcel F. Jonker, Arthur E. Attema, Bas Donkers, Elly A. Stolk and Matthijs M. Versteegh. pp. 1534–1547
• Hospital Policy and Productivity – Evidence from German States / Alexander Karmann and Felix Roesel. pp. 1548–1565
• Average-Cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector / Mathias Kifmann and Luigi Siciliani. pp. 1566–1582
• Getting a Sporting Chance: Title IX and the Intergenerational Transmission of Health / Lisa Schulkind. pp. 1583–1600
• Health Insurance Costs and Employee Compensation: Evidence from the National Compensation Survey / Priyanka Anand. pp. 1601–1616
• The Mental Health of Children Providing Care to their Elderly Parent / Dörte Heger. pp. 1617–1629
  Changing Relationship between Unemployment and Mortality in South Korea / Chulhee Lee and Kyeongbae Kim. pp. 1630–1636
• Market Competition and the Health Composition of Manufactured Food / Stephen F. Hamilton and Vincent Réquillart. pp. 1637–1643
• Pure, White and Deadly… Expensive: A Bitter Sweetness in Health Care Expenditure / Vitor Castro. pp. 1644–1666
• Do Targeted Reproductive Health Services Matter? – The Impact of a Midwife Program in Indonesia / Christoph Strupat. pp. 1667–1681
• The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Absence from Work / Fabian Duarte, Srikanth Kadiyala, Samuel H. Masters and David Powell. pp. 1682–1695
• The Impact of Unanticipated Economic Shocks on the Demand for Contraceptives: Evidence from Uganda / Olukorede Abiona. pp. 1696–1709
• Love Conquers all but Nicotine: Spousal Peer Effects on the Decision to Quit Smoking / Ali Palali and Jan C. Van ours. pp. 1710–1727
• Practice variation in the Dutch long-term care and the role of supply-sensitive care: Is access to the Dutch long-term care equitable? /Daisy Duell, Xander Koolman and France Portrait. pp. 1728–1742
• The impact of adverse health events on consumption: Understanding the mediating effect of income transfers, wealth, and health insurance / Patryk Babiarz and Tansel Yilmazer. pp. 1743–1758
• Market environment and Medicaid acceptance: What influences the access gap? / Amelia Bond, William Pajerowski, Daniel Polsky and Michael R. Richards. pp. 1759–1766
• Parental health and children’s cognitive and noncognitive development: New evidence from the longitudinal survey of Australian children / Huong Thu Le and Ha Trong Nguyen. pp. 1767–1788
• The impact of provider consolidation on physician prices / Caroline S. Carlin, Roger Feldman and Bryan Dowd. pp. 1789–1806
• Unobserved health care expenditures: How important is censoring in register data? / Christian Philipp Rudolf Schmid. pp. 1807–1812
• How excluding some benefits from value assessment of new drugs impacts innovation / Joseph P. Cook and Joseph Golec. pp. 1813–1825
• Adaptation to health states: Sick yet better off? / Patricia Cubí-Mollá, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Victoria Serra-Sastre. pp. 1826–1843
• Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health: Nonparametric evidence from four countries / Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Daniel Kuehnle and Michael Oberfichtner. pp. 1844–1861
• Valuing productivity costs using the friction-cost approach: Estimating friction-period estimates by occupational classifications for the UK / Jesse Kigozi, Sue Jowett, Martyn Lewis, Pelham Barton and Joanna Coast. pp. 1862–1868
• Is Best–Worst Scaling Suitable for Health State Valuation? A Comparison with Discrete Choice Experiments / Nicolas Krucien, Verity Watson and Mandy Ryan. pp. e1–e16
• The Impact of the Eligibility Threshold of a French Means-Tested Health Insurance Programme on Doctor Visits: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis / Sophie Guthmuller and Jérôme Wittwer. pp. e17–e34
• The Impact of Regression to the Mean on Economic Evaluation in Quasi-Experimental Pre–Post Studies: The Example of Total Knee Replacement Using Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative / Chris Schilling, Dennis Petrie, Michelle M. Dowsey, Peter F. Choong and Philip Clarke. pp. e35–e51
• Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs’ Decisions to Do After-hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Mode / Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li and Anthony Scott. pp. e52–e66
• The Effects of Exercise and Relaxation on Health and Wellbeing / Hannah Forbes, Eleonora Fichera, Anne Rogers and Matt Sutton. pp. e67–e80
• Do Capitation-based Reimbursement Systems Underfund Tertiary Healthcare Providers? Evidence from New Zealand / Somi Shin, Christoph Schumacher and Eberhard Feess. pp. e81–e102
• Re-Thinking ‘The Different Perspectives That can be Used When Eliciting Preferences in Health’ / Aki Tsuchiya and Verity Watson. pp. e103–e107
• An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health using Latent Variable Models / Timothy J. Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder. pp. e108–e125
• Cancelled Procedures in the English NHS: Evidence from the 2010 Tariff Reform / Graham Cookson, Simon Jones and Ioannis Laliotis. pp. e126–e139
• A Dynamic Estimation of Obesity Using Nhanes Data: A Pseudo-Panel Approach / Michelle Saksena and Norman Maldonado. pp. e140–e159
• Constraints on Formulary Design Under the Affordable Care Act / Martin Andersen. pp. e160–e178
  Progressive universalism? The impact of targeted coverage on health care access and expenditures in Peru / Sven Neelsen and Owen O’Donnell. pp. e179–e203
• The causal effect of retirement on mortality: Evidence from targeted incentives to retire early / Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink. pp. e204–e218
• Population health and the economy: Mortality and the Great Recession in Europe / José A. Tapia Granados and Edward L. Ionides. pp. e219–e235)
• The impact of maternal employment on children’s adiposity: Evidence from China’s labor policy reform / Young Jo and Qing Wang. pp. e236–e255
• The impact of the Affordable Care Act on self-employment / Bradley T. Heim and Lang Kate Yang. pp. e256–e273
• The effect of health care expenditure on patient outcomes: Evidence from English neonatal care / Samuel Watson, Wiji Arulampalam, Stavros Petrou and on behalf of NESCOP. pp. e274–e284
• Individual survival curves comparing subjective and observed mortality risks / Luc Bissonnette, Michael D. Hurd and Pierre-Carl Michaud. pp. e285–e303
• Improving scope sensitivity in contingent valuation: Joint and separate evaluation of health states / José Luis Pinto-Prades, José Antonio Robles-Zurita, Fernando-Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez, José María Abellán-Perpiñán and Jorge Martínez-Pérez. pp. e304–e318
• Incentives to patients versus incentives to health care providers: The users’ perspective / Izabela Jelovac and Philippe Polomé. pp.  e319–e331
• Estimating lifetime medical costs from censored claims data /Jing-Shiang Hwang, Tsuey-Hwa Hu, Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee and Jung-Der Wang. pp. e332–e344
• Market for Artemether-Lumefantrine to treat childhood malaria in a district of southern Mozambique / Sergi Alonso, Khátia Munguambe and Elisa Sicuri. pp. e345–e360

Health Policy and Planning

Volume 32, Number 10 – December 2017

Contents:

• The impact of prevention and control of infectious disease law on diarrhoea control: a 5-year evaluation in multiple provinces in Vietnam / Dung Phung, Phu Dac Tran, Lien Huong Nguyen, Cuong Manh Do, Shannon Rutherford, Cordia Chu. pp. 1347–1353
• A new use for an old tool: maternity waiting homes to improve equity in rural childbirth care. Results from a cross-sectional hospital and community survey in Tanzania / Piera Fogliati, Manuela Straneo, Sabina Mangi, Gaetano Azzimonti, Firma Kisika, Giovanni Putoto. pp. 1354–1360
• HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plans of Sub-Saharan African countries: an analysis for gender equality and sex-disaggregated HIV targets /  Jennifer Sherwood; Alana Sharp; Bergen Cooper; Beirne Roose-Snyder; Susan Blumenthal. pp. 1361–1367
• Hospitalizations for primary care sensitive conditions: association with socioeconomic status and quality of family health teams in Belo Horizonte, Brazil /  Claunara Schilling Mendonça; Vanessa Bielefeldt Leotti; Juvenal Soares Dias-da-Costa; Erno Harzheim. pp. 1368–1374
• Costing essential services package provided by a non-governmental organization network in Bangladesh / Wu Zeng, Yara A Halasa, Marion Cros, Halida Akhter, Allyala Krishna Nandakumar. pp. 1375–1385
• The effect of a performance-based financing program on HIV and maternal/child health services in Mozambique—an impact evaluation / Yogesh Rajkotia, Omer Zang, Pierre Nguimkeu, Jessica Gergen, Iva Djurovic, Paula Vaz, Franscisco Mbofana, Kebba Jobarteh. pp. 1386–1396
• The effect of costs on Kenyan households’ demand for medical care: why time and distance matter / Matt Kukla, Niccie McKay, Richard Rheingans, et al. pp. 1397–1406
• HIV prevention costs and their predictors: evidence from the ORPHEA Project in Kenya / Omar Galárraga; Richard G Wamai; Sandra G Sosa-Rubí; Mercy G Mugo; David Contreras-Loya. pp. 1407–1416
• Improving health systems performance in low- and middle-income countries: a system dynamics model of the pay-for-performance initiative in Afghanistan /  O Alonge; S Lin; T Igusa; D H Peters. pp. 1417–1426
• Impact evaluation of free delivery care on maternal health service utilisation and neonatal health in Nepal /  Prabhat Lamichhane; Anurag Sharma; Ajay Mahal. pp. 1427–1436
• The welfare implications of public healthcare financing: a macro–micro simulation analysis of Uganda /  Judith Kabajulizi; Marcus R Keogh-Brown; Richard D Smith. pp. 1437–1448
• Dynamics of evidence-informed health policy making in Pakistan /  Zaeem Haq; Assad Hafeez; Shamsa Zafar; Abdul Ghaffar. pp. 1449–1456
• 10 Best resources for community engagement in implementation research / Douglas Glandon; Ligia Paina; Olakunle Alonge; David H Peters. pp. 1457–1465
• Barriers and enablers of kangaroo mother care implementation from a health systems perspective: a systematic review /  Grace Chan; Ilana Bergelson; Emily R Smith; Tobi Skotnes; Stephen Wall. pp. 1466–1475
• Heath Sector Network Governance and State-building in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo / Aembe Bwimana. pp. 1476–1483
• Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an upper-middle income country on the GRADE approach / Javier Eslava-Schmalbach; Paola Mosquera; Juan Pablo Alzate; Kevin Pottie; Vivian Welch. pp. 1484–1490

Health Policy and Planning

Volume 32, Supplement 1 – October 2017

Contents:

• Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Emmanuelle Daviaud; Helen Owen; Catherine Pitt; Kate Kerber. pp. i6–i20.
• Community-Based Interventions for Newborns in Ethiopia (COMBINE): Cost-effectiveness analysis / Bereket Mathewos; Helen Owen; Deborah Sitrin; Simon Cousens. pp. i21–i32
• Improving Newborn Survival in Southern Tanzania (INSIST) trial; community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Fatuma Manzi; Emmanuelle Daviaud; Joanna Schellenberg; Joy E Lawn, et al. pp. i33–i41
• Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST) trial: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho; Diana Barger; Chripus Mayora; Peter Waiswa, et al. pp. i42–i52
• South-Africa (Goodstart III) trial: community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Emmanuelle Daviaud; Lungiswa Nkonki; Petrida Ijumba; Tanya Doherty, et al. pp. i53–i63
• Malawi three district evaluation: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Giulia Greco; Emmanuelle Daviaud; Helen Owen; Reuben Ligowe; Emmanuel Chimbalanga, et al. pp. i64–i74
• Bolivia programme evaluation of a package to reach an underserved population: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis / Diana Barger; Bertha Pooley; Julien Roger Dupuy; Norma Amparo Cardenas; Steve Wall, et al. pp.  i75–i83
• Multi-country analysis of the cost of community health workers kits and commodities for community-based maternal and newborn care / Diana Barger; Helen Owen; Catherine Pitt; Kate Kerber; Deborah Sitrin, et al. pp. i84–i92

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics

Volume 32, Number 10 – December 2017

Contents:

• Reputation Concerns and Authority in Organizations / Doyoung Kim. pp. 89-106
  Specific Versus Ad Valorem Taxation with Tax Evasion in Imperfectly Competitive Markets / K.L. Glen Ueng, Che-Chiang Huang, Jin-Li Hu. pp. 107-119
• Impacts of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement on Banking Cost Efficiency in China and Taiwan – A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach / Yung-Lieh Yang, Tsui-Yueh Cho, Ming-Hsiang Huang. pp. 121-141
• Macroeconomic Effects of Expansion of Universal Health Care: The Case of South Korea / Taejun Lim. pp. 143-161
• Partial Privatization and Subsidization in a Mixed Duopoly : R&D Versus Output Subsidies / Sang-Ho Lee, Timur K. Muminov, Yoshihiro Tomaru. pp. 163-177
• The Origins of the East Asian Incongruities in the Maddison Project Database / Nak Nyeon Kim, Ki-Joo Park. pp. 179-197