Lecture Notes
ECON 43656 Health Economics
Spring 2019
- What is health economics? [Download in PPT handout mode], January 16
- A primer on difference in difference models, [PPT handout], January 16
- Determinants of health from a historical perspective, [PPT handout], January 21
- Health and development [PPT handout], January 23/28
- A primer on Regression Discontinuity Design, January 28 [PPT handout]
- Modern correlates of health [PPT handout], January 30
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- Controlling hazardous behavior with Pigouvian taxes [PPT handout], Sept 10, 12
- An economic look at obesity [PPT handout], Sept 19
- Deaths of Despair [PPT handout], Sept 24
- Expected utility [PPT handout], Sept 26/Oct 1
- Moral hazard, part 1 [PPT handout], Oct 1/Oct 3
- Empirical evidence – demand for medical care [PPT handout], Oct 3/Oct 10/Oct 22
- Asymmetric Information/Adverse Selection [PPT handout], Oct 22
- Employer provided health insurance [PPT Handout], Oct 24/Oct 29
- A brief introduction to Medicare [PPT Handout], Oct 29
- Health consequences of insurance [PPT Handout], Oct 31
- Employer mandates [PPT handout], Nov 5
- Medicaid and crowd-out [PPT Handout], Nov 7
- Technology and health care spending [PPT Handout], Nov 12
- The Affordable Care Act
- What was in the law? [PPT Handout], Nov 14
- What did the law do? [PPT Handout], Nov 19
- The US Health Disadvantage [PPT Handout], Nov 26/28