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The official twitter of Health Economics. Featuring theoretical contributions, empirical studies and analyses of health policy from the economic perspective.
Joined May 2023
Health Economics(Early View): Morales and Santander find tobacco taxes significantly reduce tobacco consumption while raising large sums of tax revenue, even in countries where the cost of tobacco is low. Read more about it below. 👇
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RT @AESeconsalud: 📖 #ReferenciasAES Salas-Ortiz, A., Longo, F., Claxton, K., & Lomas, J. (2025) "Unpacking the care-related quality of lif…
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Health Economics (Early View): Chandra and Doshi find cannabis and alcohol are substitutes, but that certain forms of cannabis can be a complement to alcohol. Read more about how drug substitution can impact harm reduction policies below. 👇
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Work by Rebaudo, Calahorrano, and Hausmann, recently published in Health Economics, is getting attention in the media. And no wonder! They find compensating potential carers for the opportunity costs of caregiving ⬆️ the probability of providing care.
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Health Economics (Early View): Rogvi et al. find C-Sections aren’t linked to long-term childhood illness. While preventing complicated births benefits childhood health, C-Sections themselves aren’t likely to cause health issues or educational deficits.
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Health Economics (Early View): As populations age, more elderly need care, but relatives often can’t help due to other commitments. Mara Rebaudo finds financial incentives increase willingness to care, but up to 50% remain unwilling regardless. Read more:
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Health Economics (Early View): A new study by CĂcero et al. demonstrates that decreased trade tariffs and looser trade regulations is associated with lower cyclical mortality rates in Brazil. Trade is good for your health! (Very timely research!)
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RT @TimKriegerFR: @HECJournalTweet Great job, Mara! #EconTwitter @Fraunhofer_FIT @UniFreiburg Link to the paper:
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Health Economics (Early View): Levin et al. find hospital vertical integration shifts treatments away from physician offices and toward hospital outpatient departments. Spending on Part B drugs increases but physician treatment intensity decreases.
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Health Economics (Early View): A new study by David Johnston finds that lower education is a barrier to mental health care access. University graduates are 50% more likely to seek out and receive MH resources than those with high school education or less.
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Health Economics (Early View): Isabel Musse finds opioid use declines while OTC pain med use increases during economic expansions. This association is stronger in high injury industries. This suggests separate pathways for physical vs. mental health Tx.
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Health Economics (Early View): An individual whose income meets or exceeds the FPL loses eligibility for Medicaid. Koh and Park find that the Medicaid cliff increased out-of-pocket costs for dual eligibles by 25% and did not encourage health behaviors.
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Health Economics (Early View): As obesity and diabetes rates grow, many localities have implemented taxes on sugary foods. A new study suggests that taxes on sugary beverages can decrease consumption by up to 50%, depending on the income of the consumer.
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Health Economics (Early View): Bolin & Caputo generalize the health production function to capture cyclical health and investment patterns. They identify key conditions for this behavior and compare the framework to the canonical model. Check it out below.
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Health Economics (Early View): Anne Oxholm and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen have a paper out today examining how physician attitudes for prioritization influence access. Physicians who believe poor health patients deserve more attention tend to follow through. See 👇
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RT @Satabdi82923507: The vastly different polar opposite jobs have the highest effect size. Something like a “seesaw” phenomenon! Great rea…
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RT @LaiaMaynou: Pleased to share our new publication at @HECJournalTweet with Alistair McGuire and @v_serras - Efficiency and productivity…
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Health Economics (Early View): Let's admit that understanding US pharmaceutical pricing is a nightmare. Even the US BLS has a hard time. Hicks, Berndt, and Frank explore a major gap in the CPI-Rx from missing specialty drug sales and propose a fix.👇
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Health Economics (Early View): David Glynn and coauthors explore how machine learning can be used with economic evaluation tools to better target treatment choice architectures. Check it out!
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