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Does telemedicine technology affect prescribing quality in primary care? The case of antibiotics
Volume 105, January 2026, 103096Author links open overlay panel, , , AbstractWe study the impact of telemedicine technolog...
Individualized disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses
Volume 105, January 2026, 103100Author links open overlay panel, AbstractThis paper examines the impact of individualized ...
Workforce impacts of subsidised mental healthcare: Evidence on supply, geographic distribution, and earnings
This study uses confidential administrative tax data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Longitudinal Information Fi...
Has the shortened drug distribution chain cut drug prices? Evidence from the Two-Invoice System in China
The escalating healthcare costs have become a pressing global challenge, with pharmaceutical expenditures as a major drive...
The Effects of E-Cigarette and Cigarette Policies on Queer Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) teenagers face unique psychological challenges.1 Religious critiques of hom...
Subsidizing contraception: Effects on contraceptive coverage, abortions, and births
Available online 11 February 2026, 103112Author links open overlay panelAbstractExpanding health insurance can either incr...
Nurse Practitioner Training and Local Medical Provider Supply
There has been substantial growth in the Nurse Practitioner (NP) profession since 2010. Specif-ically, in 2010, urban coun...
What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exit of Cuban doctors in Brazil
Developed and developing countries alike have large regional disparities in the provision of medical doctors, with remote ...
Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? Evidence from households in extreme poverty
Volume 106, March 2026, 103098Author links open overlay panel, , , , AbstractThere has been a sustained rise in cash trans...
Housing affordability and domestic violence: The case of San Francisco’s rent control policies
Volume 106, March 2026, 103101Author links open overlay panel, AbstractOver a third of women in the United States experien...
The effects of wealth shocks on public and private long-term care insurance
Volume 106, March 2026, 103086Author links open overlay panel, , AbstractThe financing of long-term care services and supp...
Reform-induced competition: Evaluating the impact on Swiss pharmacies and total drug costs
This study uses three proprietary datasets. (i) Pharmacy invoice microdata are available for purchase from OFAC, the Swiss...
Community health teams and health utilization in El Salvador
Volume 106, March 2026, 103110Author links open overlay panel, , , , AbstractThe overutilization of costly hospital and em...
The impact of immunotherapy on reductions in cancer mortality: Evidence from Medicare
Healthcare expenditures in the United States now make up almost 18 percent of GDP, with pharmaceutical spending accounting...
Obesity, sedentary behavior and lifestyle: A lifecycle model of eating and physical activity
Volume 106, March 2026, 103114Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , AbstractWe propose a theoretical model to study i...
The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank
Volume 106, March 2026, 103118Author links open overlay panel, , , AbstractA large body of literature demonstrates that ex...
Learner driving experience and motor vehicle accidents
Volume 106, March 2026, 103113Author links open overlay panel, AbstractMinimum supervised driving hours (MSDH) are a key c...
The effects of delayed remuneration on doctor labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS
Volume 106, March 2026, 103119Author links open overlay panel, , AbstractWe examine the labour supply response of doctors ...
Unhooking the past: Early-life exposure to hookworm eradication and later-life longevity
The 20th century witnessed remarkable improvements in human health, largely driven by advancements in public health, medic...
Do For-Profit Hospitals Cream-Skim Patients? Evidence from Inpatient Psychiatric Care in California
The paper examines whether, among inpatient psychiatric admissions in California, for-profit (FP) hospitals engage in crea...
Heterogeneous peer effects and gender-based interventions for teenage obesity
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in children and adolescents in the United States, increasing from 5% in 1980 to o...
A change of plans: Switching costs in the procurement of health insurance
Public health insurance programs in the U.S. are increasingly delivered through regulated markets of private insurers (Gru...
Regional variation in mental healthcare utilization and suicide: Evidence from movers in Australia
Poor mental health is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide, with an estimated one million people dying each year fr...
Price transparency in healthcare: Bargaining incentives and patient responses
Healthcare price transparency has been a focal point in U.S. policy debates due to large price variations within procedure...
When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision
Volume 102, August 2025, 103000Author links open overlay panel, , AbstractThe share of female physicians has risen in OECD...
The impact of neonatal care on moderate-risk infants: Evidence from healthcare use in the first two years of life
Volume 102, August 2025, 102995Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , , AbstractAdvances in evidence-based neonatal ca...
Does knowing the costs of other physicians affect doctors’ referrals?
Physicians’ role in the health care industry is to bring expert information to the doctor-patient relationship. However, s...
Legal status and voluntary abortions by immigrants
Volume 102, August 2025, 103001Author links open overlay panel, , , AbstractWe estimate the effect of granting legal statu...
Mental health and mortality trends in the United States
This study investigates whether worsening mental health has played a significant role in the rising mortality rates experi...