Members of the Editorial Board for Health Economics gathered in Bali during #IHEA2025 to enjoy social time, discuss ways to expand our journal reach, and soak in the tropical air. Summer conference season is the best!

A fascinating new paper in Health Economics highlights the positive impact of walkability on mental health during COVID-19. Read the article here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new paper from several professors at Lund University highlights the impact that compulsory grading policies have on adolescent mental health- and the heightened impact it has on girls. Read more in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups Rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) are related to maternal, hospital, and residential factors, but the contribution of these factors to racial disparities in SMM within Medicaid and private ins...

Health Economics (Early View): A fascinating new paper dissects the potential causes of racial disparities in maternal morbidities in Georgia. Read more about how race can impact healthcare outcomes here.
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Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand) People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that m...

Health Economics (Early View): A new study examining the impact of forced relocation on mental health found that it individuals who moved were more likely to seek out mental health treatment more often than individuals who were stationary. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new paper by Prof. Churchill at American University highlights the impact that age-within-grade has on the body perceptions of young students. Read more about it in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do Rurality‐Based Financial Incentives Improve Equity of Primary Healthcare Access? Evidence From Australia In Australia, as in many other countries, people living in rural and remote areas experience poorer health outcomes and use less primary healthcare compared to urban populations. Aiming to reduce th...

Health Economic (Early View): In 2022 Australia began providing incentives to increase access to healthcare in rural areas. This study found that this policy has been successful in increasing visits and decreasing costs, but that effects are unequal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Health Economics (Early View): Several cities in China have begun implementing DIP reforms for non-resident patients. This study found that these reforms significantly reduced overall charges for non-residents, and primarily impacted high-cost hospitals. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Health Economics (Early View): A new article in Health economics has demonstrated the potential for joint minimum wage and EITCs on reducing poverty and hunger rates when combined. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Socio‐Economic Evolution and Tobacco Products Sales in Spain: A Long‐Term Analysis of the Tobacco Kuznets Curve This article examines the relationship between economic development and tobacco consumption in Spain, using the Kuznets Curve framework. Drawing on panel data from Spanish provinces (2002–2021), the ....

Health Economics (Early View): Researcher Juan Manuel Martín-Álvarez has found that tobacco sales and consumer behavior is impacted by multiple economic factors, so differentiated policies may be more effective in addressing smoking behavior. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Influenza Vaccination and Occupational Social Intensity: Evidence From U.S. Workers We examine whether individuals with socially intensive occupations are empirically more likely to get vaccinated against flu. Socially active workers interact with a relatively large number of people....

Health Economics (Early View): New research in Health Economics suggests that individuals’ decisions to get vaccinated are based on private evaluations rather than social consideration. Read more about what can influence vaccination behavior here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Last week 7 leading journals (including Health Economics) distributed a joint statement on editorial independence and academic freedom. Today, IHEA (the International Health Economics Association) joins our statement in solidarity. See their endorsement on the IHEA homepage:

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Royal Economic Society honour for Lancaster Professor Bruce Hollingsworth - Lancaster University Professor of Health Economics Bruce Hollingsworth has been appointed a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.

The Editorial Board of Health Economics is very pleased to congratulate one of our own, Prof. Bruce Hollingsworth, on being appointed a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. This is a high and well-deserved honour! Read all about it here:

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Joint Statement of Principles Statement of Principles from the Editorial Boards of Leading Health Economics Journals May 21, 2025 As academic independence and freedom of expression face increasing threats across many countries a...

A direct link to this statement can be found below. Please distribute this widely so that all of our colleagues in the discipline can see that their work is valued and that we will not collaborate with, or tolerate, political coercion.

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The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

Public Long‐Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence From China While many studies examine the effects of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on labor supply and retirement behaviors, its effect on retirement intentions—offering certain advantages over actual behavio...

Health economics (Early View): New research by Zhong Zhao on the subject of long-term care insurance and labor. The study found that this insurance can delay retirement by years. Read more about how insurance is impacting the workforce here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Children's Education and Parental Healthcare Utilization: The Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Financial Support Healthcare utilization among older people in developing countries is typically far below the level considered adequate in developed countries. This study investigates the effect of children's educati...

Health Economics (Early View): The education level of children can have a surprising impact on the health and healthcare-related behaviors of parents, according to a recent study by Yi Zhang. Read more in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Home‐Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter? Long-term services in the home are predominately provided by family or friends, with a growing proportion of individuals receiving formal care, or paid care by a professional, or a combination of bot...

Health Economics (Early View): As the need for long-term care grows, researchers like Norma Coe are examining outcomes of home-based care, and if the specific provider of care makes a difference in the health of the recipient. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Rise in American Pain: The Importance of the Great Recession A significant literature has documented trend increases in pain among Americans over the last 2 or 3 decades. There is no consensus on the reason for the trend, with no single explanation seeming to ...

Health Economics (Early View): In the last several decades, general pain of an unknown cause has risen among Americans. Robert Moffitt’s new paper suggests that almost all of this increase occurred during the great recession. Learn more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do Gun‐Purchase Waiting Periods Save Lives? We study the impact of gun-purchase waiting periods on suicide rates using county-level mortality data from 1991–2019. We find that waiting periods are associated with a reduction in both firearm and...

The article by Arnold and Priestly on the impact of gun-purchase waiting periods and mortality is gaining traction in the media. It's an always-timely topic for US policies. If you missed it you can read about it here:

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Stringent immigration enforcement and the mental health and health‐risk behaviors of Hispanic adolescent students in Arizona This study investigates the impact of the enforcement of SB 1070, a stringent immigration law, on the mental health, health-risk behaviors, and academic performance of Hispanic adolescent residents i....

We've noticed the paper on immigration enforcement and mental health for Arizona Hispanic youth getting a good bit of attention in the media lately. Maybe you'd find it interesting too. See:

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Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables Many health indicators are bounded, that is, their values lie between a lower and an upper bound. Inequality measurement with bounded variables faces two normative challenges well-known in the health....

Health Economics (Early View): Research from Gaston Yalonetzky has examined the relationship between inequality and bounded variables for health indicators in health-related research, and found that it can have dramatic effects on results. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Income‐Related Inequalities in Future Health Prospects Measuring health disparities is key to monitoring health systems, but hitherto disparities in the individual risk people face about their future health has been neglected. This paper integrates indiv....

Health Economics (Early View): A new Health Economics article by Tom Van Ourti has demonstrated that the future health prospects and risk aversion behavior of individuals is heavily affected by socio-economic status. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Health Economics Health Economics is an international health policy journal publishing articles on all aspects of global health economics and health care systems.

The Editors of Health Economics are pleased to announce that we will now accept submissions for literature reviews that synthesize recent research on topics of broad interest to health economists. #HEcReviews

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Inequality of Opportunity in Body Mass: Evidence From Australia This paper extends current knowledge about inequality of opportunity in body mass in Australia. Drawing on 2013 and 2017 Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey data, our empirical....

Health Economics (Early View): Body mass may have an impact on people’s ability to get opportunities, according to a new study by Anushiya Vijayasivajie. The results indicated that these effects were greater for women. Read more in Health Economics.
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Anxious Dads and Depressed Moms: Child Disability and the Mental Health of Parents Having a child with a disability undoubtedly affects parents in many ways, including their well-being. However, the specific mental health trajectories of parents, differentiated by the severity of i....

Health Economics (Early View): A new Health Economics paper by Derek Asuman and Tina Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir examines the impacts of child disability on the mental health of parents. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new Health Economics paper by Dr. Andrei Barbos and doctoral student Minglu Sun at the University of South Florida has linked opioid policies and a reduction in domestic violence. Read the full paper here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Dr. Sayaka Nakamura at Sophia University and Dr. Shiko Maruyama at Jinan University have found that universal school lunch programs have an impact on obesity rates in school age children. Read the full article here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fair Innings: An Empirical Test The fair innings principle states that fairness requires allocating life-saving treatments to younger rather than older patients when each would gain the same extension in longevity. It is motivated ...

Health Economics (Early View): James Hammitt’s new paper in Health Economics highlights the divide between principles of equal treatment practiced in the healthcare field and the preferences of the general population. Read more here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Student Performance: Evidence From an RDD in Peru The literature on the effects of social health insurance focuses on its stated goals, which are health status and financial protection. In contrast, we examine the effect of the Peruvian program on s...

Health Economics (Early View): New evidence shows that the provision of social health insurance for students improves academic performance in the areas of math and reading comprehension. Read Miguel Carpio’s article here, in Health Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...