Top publications in health, education, and welfare 1–100 of 9,266 results
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The Price of Innovation: New Estimates of Drug Development Costs (2003) 825
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The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF36 (2002) 575
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Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal : A review (1986) 514
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The rand 36-item health survey 1.0 (1993) 435
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Estimating log models: to transform or not to transform? (2001) 373
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The logged dependent variable, heteroscedasticity, and the retransformation problem (1998) 297
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An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2004) 277
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Economic foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis (1997) 267
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The friction cost method for measuring indirect costs of disease (1995) 250
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The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance (2005) 247
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Cost of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry (1991) 227
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Representing uncertainty: the role of cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (2001) 219
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Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons (1997) 217
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Pulling cost-effectiveness analysis up by its bootstraps: A non-parametric approach to confidence interval estimation (1997) 216
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Much ado about two: reconsidering retransformation and the two-part model in health econometrics (1998) 214
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Returns to investment in education: a further update (2004) 209
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Costs, effects and C/E-ratios alongside a clinical trial (1994) 201
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Accounting for future costs in medical cost-effectiveness analysis (1997) 194
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The irrelevance of inference: a decision-making approach to the stochastic evaluation of health care technologies (1999) 191
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New evidence on the relationship between income and health (1996) 179
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The time trade-off method: Results from a general population study (1996) 177
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Price, tobacco control policies and smoking among young adults (1997) 175
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Intergenerational Equity: An Exploration of the 'Fair Innings' Argument (1997) 175
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Does NICE have a cost-effectiveness threshold and what other factors influence its decisions? A binary choice analysis (2004) 174
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Ageing of population and health care expenditure: a red herring? (1999) 173
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Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review (1997) 171
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Equity and equality in health and health care (1993) 170
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Confidence intervals or surfaces? Uncertainty on the cost-effectiveness plane (1998) 166
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The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking (1991) 164
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Health care contingent valuation studies: a review and classification of the literature (1998) 162
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Uncertainty in the economic evaluation of health care technologies: The role of sensitivity analysis (1994) 155
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A comparison of the EQ-5D and SF6D across seven patient groups (2004) 147
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Using Conjoint Analysis to Assess Women's Preferences for Miscarriage Management (1997) 144
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Modelling in Ecomomic Evaluation: An Unavoidable Fact of Life (1997) 142
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The potential for using excise taxes to reduce smoking (1982) 141
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Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US (2000) 138
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Measuring hospital efficiency with frontier cost functions (1994) 137
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The determinants and effects of health expenditure in developed countries (1992) 134
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The effects of low-pay and unemployment on psychological well-being: A logistic regression approach (1998) 131
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Valuing health states: A comparison of methods (1996) 130
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Health problems as determinants of retirement: Are self-rated measures endogenous? (1999) 129
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Estimating hospital costs : A multiple-output analysis (1986) 128
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Adaptation and scale of reference bias in self-assessments of quality of life (2000) 128
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The demand for cocaine by young adults: a rational addiction approach (1998) 127
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Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves - facts, fallacies and frequently asked questions (2004) 127
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Modeling risk using generalized linear models (1999) 124
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Explaining the differences in income-related health inequalities across European countries (2004) 124
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Explaining income-related inequalities in doctor utilisation in Europe (2004) 123
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QALYs and the equity-efficiency trade-off (1991) 122
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Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes (1999) 121
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The demand for alcohol: The differential response to price (1995) 120
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An econometric analysis of health care expenditure: A cross-section study of the OECD countries (1992) 120
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An Economic Approach to Clinical Trial Design and Research Priority Setting (1996) 119
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Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons 1 This paper derives from the project `Equity in the finance and delivery of health care in Europe' (the so-called ECuity Project), funded by the European Union's Biomed I Programme (contract BMH1CT92). Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wagstaff jointly coordinated the project. We are grateful to the EU for financial support and to two referees for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper. We alone are responsible for any remaining errors. 1 (1999) 117
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Improving nurse retention in the National Health Service in England: the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit (2001) 116
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Modeling the effects of health on economic growth (2001) 116
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Schooling and health : The cigarette connection (1982) 114
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Measuring hospital performance : A non-parametric approach (1987) 113
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Understanding DALYs (1997) 112
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Inequalities in self-reported health: validation of a new approach to measurement (2003) 112
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The effect of tobacco advertising bans on tobacco consumption (2000) 111
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Provider behavior under prospective reimbursement : Cost sharing and supply (1986) 110
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Optimal payment systems for health services (1990) 110
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On the decision rules of cost-effectiveness analysis (1993) 108
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The effect of Medicaid reimbursement on quality of care in nursing homes (1996) 106
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The impact of hospital market structure on patient volume, average length of stay, and the cost of care (1985) 105
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Development of WHO guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis (2000) 104
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Theory versus practice: a review of 'willingness-to-pay' in health and health care (2001) 104
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Controlling for the endogeneity of peer substance use on adolescent alcohol and tobacco use (1998) 104
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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: a framework for the marriage of health econometrics and cost-effectiveness analysis (2002) 103
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Alcohol policies and highway vehicle fatalities (1996) 102
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Frontier estimation: How useful a tool for health economics? (1994) 101
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Creaming, skimping and dumping: provider competition on the intensive and extensive margins 1 This is a substantially rewritten version of a paper entitled `Creaming, Skimping, and Dumping: Provider Competition for Patients'. 1 (1998) 100
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A Bayesian approach to stochastic cost-effectiveness analysis (1999) 97
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How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement (2006) 96
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Distinguishing between heterogeneity and inefficiency: stochastic frontier analysis of the World Health Organization's panel data on national health care systems (2004) 96
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Returns to R&D on new drug introductions in the 1980s (1994) 95
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Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993-1998 (2003) 94
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Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health (2004) 94
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The demand for health : Some new empirical evidence (1986) 93
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Parental leave and child health (2000) 93
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Calculating the global burden of disease: time for a strategic reappraisal? (1999) 92
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Confidence Intervals for Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Four Methods (1997) 92
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Subjective health measures and state dependent reporting errors (1995) 91
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The structure of demand for health care: latent class versus two-part models (2002) 91
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Taxation, regulation, and addiction: A demand function for cigarettes based on time-series evidence (1993) 90
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Willingness to pay for antihypertensive therapy -- results of a Swedish pilot study (1991) 90
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Why health equity? (2002) 90
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Generalized modeling approaches to risk adjustment of skewed outcomes data (2005) 90
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Child mental health and human capital accumulation: The case of ADHD (2006) 87
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Physician response to fee changes with multiple payers (1991) 86
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Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics (2003) 86
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Psychiatrie (2007) 85
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Discounting and health benefits (1992) 85
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The reliability of self-assessed health status (2002) 85
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An economic theory of cigarette addiction (1999) 85
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Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for NICE technology assessment: not an optional extra (2005) 85
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Aggregate health care expenditures and national income : Is health care a luxury good? (1987) 84
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Agency in health care. Examining patients' preferences for attributes of the doctor–patient relationship (1998) 84
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Hospital ownership and cost and quality of care: is there a dime’s worth of difference? (2001) 84