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Competition in the pharmaceutical industry: How do quality differences shape advertising strategies?

de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Ornaghi, Carmine; Siotis, Georges - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 268-285

We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality/side effects. Promotional effort results in the endogenous formation of two consumer groups: brand loyal and non-brand loyal ones. We show that advertising intensities are...

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Regulatory policy and the location of bio-pharmaceutical foreign direct investment in Europe

Koenig, Pamina; MacGarvie, Megan - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 950-965

This paper examines the relationship between cross-country differences in drug price regulation and the location of biopharmaceutical Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe. Simple theory predicts that price regulation in one country might affect total investment, but not the location of that...

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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 3, pp. 591-601

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on...

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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amélie; Rouche, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 70 (2020)

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...

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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults

Barbaresco, Silvia; Courtemanche, Charles J.; Qi, Yanling - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 54-68

The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act – a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents’ health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care...

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Public health insurance and disparate eligibility of spouses: The Medicare eligibility gap

Witman, Allison - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 10-25

I exploit the age-based eligibility structure of Medicare and the age gap between spouses to examine the impact of Medicare eligibility of an older spouse on the insurance coverage of younger, Medicare-ineligible spouses. Using a regression discontinuity framework, I find that Medicare...

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How does retiree health insurance influence public sector employee saving?

Clark, Robert L.; Mitchell, Olivia S. - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 109-118

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Nevertheless, we are unaware of any similar...

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Air pollution, avoidance behaviour and children's respiratory health: Evidence from England

Janke, Katharina - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 23-42

Despite progress in air pollution control, concerns remain over the health impact of poor air quality. Governments increasingly issue air quality information to enable vulnerable groups to avoid exposure. Avoidance behaviour potentially biases estimates of the health effects of air pollutants....

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The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use

Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 43-61

More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In this paper, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana...

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Price regulation and relative delays in generic drug adoption

Costa-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair; Varol, Nebibe - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 1-9

study has empirically examined the differential launch times of generics across a comprehensive set of markets, or more … specifically the delays in country specific adoption of generics relative to the first country of (generic) adoption. Drawing on … regulation has a significant effect on reducing the time to launch of generics, with faster adoption in higher priced markets …

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