Class Notes and PP Handout Mode

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
  • The US Health Disadvantage [PPT Handout], Nov 26/28