Recent Developments in Health Econometrics

Badi H. Baltagi specializes in econometrics. He is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA, where he is also a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research.Francesco Moscone is Professor of Business Economics and Division Lead for Organisations and People at Brunel University, UK. He also teaches at the University Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and has previously worked at the University of Leicester, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics (LSE), University of Bergamo, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome.

• Editorial Introduction; Badi H. Baltagi and Francesco MosconeChapter 1. Tracking Pupils Into Adulthood: Selective Schools and Long-Term Human Capital; Chiara Pastore, Nigel Rice, and Andrew M. JonesChapter 2. Physician Behavior and Inequalities in Access to Healthcare; Mylene Lagarde and Anthony ScottChapter 3. Performance Comparison and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Unmet Need for Medical Treatment and Dental care in the European Union; Andrea Riganti, Valerie Moran, and Luigi SicilianiChapter 4. Beyond the Mean’ in Biomarkers Modelling for Economic Evaluations: a Case Study in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus; Georgios F. Nikolaidis, Ana Duarte, Susan Griffin, and James LomasChapter 5. Empirical Health Economics for Evidence-Based Policies: Some Lessons From Italy; Vincenzo Carrieri and Francesco PrincipeChapter 6. Types of Inactivity and Depression Among Older Individuals; Anwar S. Adem, Bruce Hollingsworth, and Eugenio ZucchelliChapter 7. Mental Health, Lifestyle and Retirement; Silvia Balia and Erica DelugasChapter 8. The Association Between Medical Cannabis Laws and Flows of Opioids by Dosage Strength to US Pharmacies - Evidence from Detailed ARCOS Data, 2006-2014; Shelby R. Steuart and W. David BradfordChapter 9. The Prevalence, Trends and Heterogeneity in Maternal Smoking Around Birth Between the 1930s and 1970s; Stephanie von Hinke, Jonathan James, Emil Sorensen, Hans H. Sievertsen, and Nicolai VittChapter 10. Benchmarking Clinical Practice on Treatment Gain Inequality-Probability Bounds; Raf Van Gestel, Daniel Avdic, and Owen O’DonnelChapter 11. Hidden Figures: Uncovering Quantities Behind Zeros with Econometrics; Anirban BasuChapter 12. Investigating Health Outcomes Defined by Multiple Chronic Conditions; John Mullahy