This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists. Five important,...

We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have individuals in Great...

Using micro data on virtually all of the drugs and diseases of over 500,000 people enrolled in Puerto Rico's Medicaid program, we examine the impact of the vintage (original FDA approval year) of drugs used to treat a patient on the patient's 3-year probability of survival, controlling for...

Die Bedeutung der unmittelbaren Verknüpfung von medizinischen und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen wird auch angesichts der enormen Dynamik und Herausforderungen einer nahezu alles beherrschenden Pandemie im Gesundheitswesen deutlich. Es ist daher entscheidend, Kosten und Nutzen von...