AJHE NewsBrief: Risk Beliefs and Preferences for E-Cigarettes
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University American Journal of Health Economics 2(2): 13-240, 2016 The emergence of electronic cigarettes, known as e-cigarettes, has generated regulatory interest throughout...
View ArticleElectronic Cigarettes: Open Questions in an Evolving Market
Abigail S. Friedman Department of Health Policy and Management Yale School of Public Health Electronic cigarettes entered the U.S. market ten years ago, yet the consequences of this entry remain hotly...
View ArticleNews from the Executive Director
We at ASHEcon are very excited about the upcoming Allied Social Science Association meetings here in Chicago (home of the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs!). For those of you planning on attending...
View ArticleDirections in the Economics of Smoking
Philip DeCicca, Ball State University Donald Kenkel, Cornell University Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University Erik Nesson, Ball State University Smoking prevention has been a key component of health...
View ArticleAJHE NewsBrief: Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the...
Benjamin Hansen, University of Oregon, IZA and NBER Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver and IZA Joseph J. Sabia, University of New Hampshire and IZA American Journal of Health Economics...
View ArticleInterview with Amy Finkelstein about Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
1) What are the key results from your work on the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment? The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is a randomized evaluation of the impact of extending Medicaid to...
View ArticleASHEcon Update
It feels a little like the calm before the storm of the coming ASHEcon2018 meeting at Emory. But there is a lot happening behind the scenes here! There will be exciting and important announcements to...
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A Review of Health Insurance Marketplace Data: Plan Offerings, Enrollment,...
Coleman Drake Doctoral Candidate, Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health A rich literature regarding the Health Insurance Marketplaces (i.e.,...
View ArticleASHEcon Sessions at ASSA 2018
The Allied Social Science Association meeting in Philadelphia January 5-7, 2018 will feature a host of health economics sessions—thanks to your submissions to our call for abstracts. Topics in Health...
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Changes at ASHEcon!
New Back Office There are big changes afoot at ASHEcon. First, we have changed offices! ASHEcon is extremely pleased to have entered into an administrative services agreement with the Association for...
View ArticlePassing of Melayne Morgan McInnes, former editor of the ASHEcon Newsletter
We are very saddened to share news of the loss of our founding leader of the ASHEcon newsletter, Melayne Morgan McInnes. Melayne was a professor of economics at the Moore School of Business at...
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News from the Executive Director
Dear Friends, Welcome to the latest issue of our newsletter! There is much planning and preparation happening at ASHEcon these days. We are of course very excited about the upcoming ASHEcon meeting...
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In Utero Sunlight, Vitamin D, and Asthma
Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies by Nils Wernerfelt, David J. G. Slusky and Richard Zeckhauser Asthma prevalence in the United States has been rising for the...
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Child Development: Research and Policy
Child Development: Research and Policy by Hannes Schwandt and Valentine Duque The economic literature on child development, emerging over the last 20 years, has made two important contributions to the...
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Ten Questions for Jason Hockenberry, Associate Professor of Health Policy and...
1. What were the main reasons for deciding to host ASHEcon at Emory this year? It made sense to us because Atlanta has a large, collegial group of health economists and health services researchers...
View ArticleCareers in Health Economics: Think Tanks
By David Powell The price elasticity of medical care is -0.2 (Manning et al., 1988). Any discussion about health economics at the RAND Corporation should probably start with this indisputable and still...
View ArticleProfile: Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance...
By Michelle Papp Founded in 2015 as a collaboration among Weill Cornell Medicine, Boston Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: Impact of National, State, or Local Policies on Health...
By Katie Deming What policies, laws, and regulations can help improve health and health equity? As policymakers experiment and redesign policies in a multitude of sectors, research will be critical to...
View ArticleASHEcon and APPAM Webinar on the Epidemic of Opioid Addiction
By: Colleen Carey ASHEcon and the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) joined forces on January 18, 2018 for a webinar on one of the most pressing health policy challenges of...
View ArticleCareers in Health Economics: City Government
Careers in Health Economics: City Government Learning to say it another way: jumping off the tenure track into local government By Sarah Martin When I was on the market in 2012 and deciding where to...
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