Economics and Mental Health

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Research on Economics and Mental Health: The Past and Future Prospects
Part I. The Supply of Mental Health Care
Chapter 2. Mental Health Providers' Response to the Reimbursement System
Chapter 3. A Modified TEFRA System for Psychiatric Facilities
Chapter 4. Do Public Mental Health Hospitals Crowd Out Care for Indigent Psychiatric Patients in Nonprofit General Hospitals?
Part II: The Economic Cost of Mental Illness
Chapter 5. Estimates of the Loss of Individual Productivity from Alcohol and Drug Abuse and from Mental Illness
Chapter 6. Measurement Error in Self-Evaluations of Mental Health: Implications for Labor Market Analysis
Chapter 7. The Effects of Physical and Mental Health of Female Labor Supply
Chapter 8. Linkages among Deviance in Adolescence, Antisocial Personality
Part III. Insurance and the Demand for Mental Health Care
Chapter 9. Econometric Issues in the Demand for Mental Health Care under Insurance
Chapter 10. Private Health Insurance and the Use of Medical Care by Disabled Mentally Ill Medical Enrollees
Chapter 11. Estimating the costs of a mental health benefit: A small-employer Mandate
Part IV. Experimentation
Chapter 12. Cost-Utility Analysis of Maintenance Treatment for Recurrent Depression: A Theoretical Framework and Numerical Illustration
Chapter 13. The Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among Mentally Ill Medicaid Enrolles: The Utilization of Services in Prepaid Plans Versus Fee-for Service Care
Chapter 14. A Mental Health Capitation Experiment: Evaluating the Monroe-Livingston Experience
Chapter 15. The short-run effects of a contracted provider arrangement for mental health care
Index