Lecture Notes

ECON 43656 Health Economics

Fall 2020

 

 

·        What is health economics? [Download in PPT handout mode], August 10

·        A primer on difference in difference models, [PPT handout], August 10

·        Health from an historical perspective, [PPT handout], August 12

·        Health and development [PPT handout], August 17

·        A primer on Regression Discontinuity Design, August 19 [PPT handout]

·        Modern correlates of health [PPT handout], AuguSept 21/23

·        Controlling hazardous behavior with Pigouvian taxes [PPT handout], August 26, 31

·        An economic look at obesity [PPT handout], August 31

·        Deaths of Despair [PPT handout], Sept 7/9

·        Expected utility [PPT handout], Sept 9/14

·        Moral hazard, part 1 [PPT handout], Sept 21

·        Empirical evidence – demand for medical care [PPT handout], Sept 21/23

·        Employer provided health insurance [PPT Handout], Nov 6

·        Asymmetric Information/Adverse Selection [PPT handout], Oct 5, 7

·        A brief introduction to Medicare [PPT Handout], Oct 7

·        Health consequences of insurance [PPT Handout], Oct 12

·        Technology and health care spending [PPT Handout], Oct 19

·        Mandates and Medicaid, [PPT Handout] Oct 21

·        The Affordable Care Act

1.      What was in the law? [PPT Handout], Oct 26

2.     What did the law do? [PPT Handout], Oct 28

·        The 1918 Pandemic [PPT handout], Nov 2

 

 

 

 

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·        The US Health Disadvantage [PPT Handout], Dev 4

·        Employer mandates [PPT handout], April 3, 8

·        Medicaid and crowd-out [PPT Handout], April 8, 10