The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics

Edited by Andrew M. Jones, Professor of Economics, University of York, UK

Andrew M. Jones is Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Health, Econometrics, and Data Group (HEDG) at the University of York, UK, as well as a visiting professor at Monash University. He was a joint editor of Health Economics for more than twenty-five years. Additionally, he was an elected member of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Executive Board from 2011 to 2014, and chaired the organization's Arrow Award committee from 2014 to 2016. He was President of the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) from 2016 to 2018. His work is primarily in microeconometrics and health economics with particular interests in the determinants of health, the economics of addiction, and socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare.

Eline Aas
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Henrik Andersson
Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Bénédicte Apouey
Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS), Paris School of Economics

Giuseppe Arbia
Department of Business, Statistical, Technological and Environmental Sciences, D'Annunzio University of Chieti—Pescara

John E. Ataguba
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

Vincenzo Atella
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Arthur Attema
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Susan Averett
Department of Economics, Lafayette College

Pieter van Baal
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Gianluca Baio
Department of Statistical Science, University College London

Rachel Baker
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

Ana Balsa
Department of Economics, University of Montevideo

Norman Bannenberg
Chair of Health Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Edwine W. Barasa
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP)

Cristina Bellés-Obrero
Department of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University

Samuel Berlinski
Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank; IZA—Institute of Labor Economics

David E. Bloom
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Hendriek Boshuizen
Department of Statistics, Informatics, and Mathematical Modelling, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

Fiammetta Bozzani
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Andrew H. Briggs
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Emily Burger
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

David Cantarero-Prieto
Department of Economics, University of Cantabria

Fiona Carmichael
Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

Martin Chalkley
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Yijuan Chen
Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Ayman Chit
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

Joanna Coast
Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol

Marissa Collins
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

Gregory Colman
Department of Economics, Pace University

Hilary S. Connery
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Gabriella Conti
Department of Economics, University College London; Institute for Fiscal Studies

Hope Corman
Department of Finance and Economics, Rider University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Peter C. Coyte
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Dhaval Dave
Department of Economics, Bentley University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Manuela De Allegri
Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University

Philip DeCicca
Department of Economics, McMaster University

Nancy Devlin
Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne

Carlos Díaz
Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Karla DiazOrdaz
Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Cam Donaldson
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

Brigitte Dormont
Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa), Paris Dauphine University; PSL Research University

Michael Drummond
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Ijeoma Peace Edoka
School of Public Health, University of the Witswatersrand

Daniel Eisenberg
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Fabrice Etilé
Paris School of Economics; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)

Jordan Everson
Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Brian S. Ferguson
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guelph

Denzil G. Fiebig
School of Economics, University of New South Wales

Jason M. Fletcher
School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Richard Frank
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Lucy Frith
Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool

Andrea Gabrio
Department of Statistical Science, University College London

Titus Galama
Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California

Omar Galárraga
School of Public Health, Brown University

Matteo M. Galizzi
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael Gerfin
Department of Economics, University of Bern

Thomas E. Getzen
Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, Temple University

Sherry Glied
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Irina Grafova
Department of Health Systems and Policy, Rutgers University

Richard Grieve
Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Paul Grootendorst
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto

Syed Abdul Hamid
Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka

Johanna Hanefeld
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Paul Hansen
Department of Economics, University of Otago

Kara Hanson
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Katharina Hauck
School of Public Health, Imperial College London

Helen Hayes
Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester

Mónica Hernández Alava
School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

Dominic Hodgkin
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Alastair Irvine
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Tor Iversen
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Josephine Jacobs
VA Health Economics Resource Center (HERC); VA Palo Alto Health Care System; Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University

Florence Jusot
Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa), Paris Dauphine University

Martin Karlsson
Chair of Health Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Donald S. Kenkel
Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

Richard C. van Kleef
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Martin Knapp
Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Ciaran N. Kohli-Lynch
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

Jennifer Kohn
Department of Economics and Business, Drew University

Joanna Kopinska
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Noémi Kreif
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Michael Kuhn
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Audrey Laporte
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Otto Lenhart
Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde

Rosella Levaggi
Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia

Maureen Lewis
Aceso Global

Jun Li
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Maarten Lindeboom
Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Matteo Lippi Bruni
Department of Economics, University of Bologna

Adriana Lleras-Muney
Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael F. Lovenheim
Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

Ching-to Albert Ma
Department of Economics, Boston University

Henry Y. Mak
Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Irene Mammi
Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Andrea Manca
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Giacomo Mason
Department of Economics, University College London

Fabrizio Mazzonna
Institute of Economics, Università della Svizzera Italiana

A. McGuire
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Thomas G. McGuire
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Neil McHugh
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

Diane McIntyre
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

André Medici
World Bank

Hans Olav Melberg
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Marisa Miraldo
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London

Alec Morton
Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde

Francesco Moscone
Brunel Business School, Brunel University London

John Mullahy
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Erik Nesson
Department of Economics, Ball State University

Edward C. Norton
Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Lisa Oberlander
Paris School of Economics; Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)

Amarech G. Obse
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

Owen O'Donnell
Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Henning Øien
Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University

Albert A. Okunade
Department of Economics, University of Memphis

Ahmad Reshad Osmani
Department of Economics, University of Memphis

Kine Pedersen
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Franco Peracchi
Department of Economics, Georgetown University

Gabriel Picone
Department of Economics, University of South Florida

José Luis Pinto-Prades
School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra

Stavros Poupakis
Department of Economics, University College London

Klaus Prettner
Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim

Ramesh Raghavan
Rutgers School of Social Work and the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University

Nancy E. Reichman
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University

Arne Risa Hole
Department of Economics, University of Sheffield

Fernando Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia

Rita Santos
Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Hendrik Schmitz
Center for International Economics, University of Paderborn

Jonas Schreyögg
Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University of Hamburg

Frederik T. Schut
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Ya-Chen Tina Shih
Department of Health Services Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Luigi Siciliani
Department of Economics, University of York

Peter Sivey
School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University

Richard Smith
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí
Centro de Investigación y Evaluación de Encuestas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública

Pascal St-Amour
Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne

Olena Stavrunova
Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

Alexandrina Stoyanova
School of Economics, University of Barcelona

Deborah J. Street
Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney

Marc Suhrcke
Centre for Health Economics, University of York; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Matt Sutton
Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester

Mikael Svensson
Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg

Keith Syrett
University of Bristol Law School

Rosanna Tarricone
SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University

Nathan Tefft
Department of Economics, Bates College

Aleksandra Torbica
SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University

Elisa Tosetti
Brunel Business School, Brunel University London

Sandy Tubeuf
Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain

Judit Vall Castello
Department of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University

Gerard J. van den Berg
Department of Economics, University of Bristol

Marjon van der Pol
Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Courtney Van Houtven
Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University; Health Services Research and Development, Durham VA Medical Center

Hans van Kippersluis
School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Jan C. van Ours
Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Anna Vassall
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Marcos Vera-Hernández
Department of Economics, University College London; Institute for Fiscal Studies

Antoine Vernet
Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London

Rossella Verzulli
Department of Economics, University of Bologna

Rosalie Viney
Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney

Ana Wheelock
Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Daniel Wiesen
Department of Business Administration and Health Care Management, University of Cologne

Joshua Wilde
Department of Economics, University of South Florida

Svenja Winkler
Center for International Economics, University of Paderborn

Joachim Winter
Department of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Amelie Wuppermann
Department of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Winnie Yip
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Hong Il Yoo
Durham University Business School, Durham University