Lecture Notes
ECON 43656 Health
Economics
Fall 2020
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What is health economics? [Download in PPT handout mode], August
10
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A primer on difference in difference models, [PPT handout], August 10
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Health from an historical perspective, [PPT handout], August 12
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Health and development [PPT
handout], August 17
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A primer on Regression Discontinuity Design, August 19 [PPT handout]
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Modern correlates of health [PPT handout], AuguSept 21/23
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Controlling hazardous behavior with Pigouvian
taxes [PPT handout],
August 26, 31
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An economic look at obesity [PPT
handout], August 31
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Deaths of Despair [PPT
handout], Sept 7/9
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Expected utility [PPT handout],
Sept 9/14
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Moral hazard, part 1 [PPT
handout], Sept 21
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Empirical evidence – demand for medical care [PPT handout], Sept 21/23
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Employer provided health insurance [PPT Handout], Nov 6
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Asymmetric Information/Adverse Selection [PPT
handout], Oct 5, 7
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A brief introduction to Medicare [PPT
Handout], Oct 7
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Health consequences of insurance [PPT Handout], Oct 12
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Technology and health care spending [PPT
Handout], Oct 19
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Mandates and Medicaid, [PPT Handout] Oct 21
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The Affordable Care Act
1. What was in the law? [PPT Handout], Oct 26
2. What did the law do? [PPT Handout], Oct 28
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The 1918 Pandemic [PPT
handout], Nov 2
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The US Health Disadvantage [PPT Handout], Dev 4
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Employer mandates [PPT
handout], April 3, 8
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Medicaid and crowd-out [PPT Handout],
April 8, 10