Announcements
ECON 40447 Health Economics
Fall 2009
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For the week of
September 21
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For Monday the 21st,
please read the text on expected utility from Nicholson
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For Wednesday the
23rd, please read Rotschild and Stiglitz.
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For the week of
September 14
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Please read the
articles on the economics of obesity
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On Monday the 14th,
we will discuss the economic control of poor health
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On Wednesday the
16th, we will start the discussion of the obesity papers
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For the week of
September 7th
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Practice problem
set 1 is available
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For Monday,
please read the Gruber text on Pigouvian taxes
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For Wednesday,
please read the four articles on “Do smokers and drinkers pay their way.”
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For the week of
August 31, 2009
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For Monday,
please read McKeown, Fogel,
Cutler and Miller and download the lecture notes for “Difference-in-Difference
Models” and “Rise of Health from a Historical Perspective”
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For Wednesday,
read the articles about the Modern Correlates of Health” and download the
lecture notes
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The first ste of précis are due this week
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Sign up for next
week’s précis assignments
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For the first day
of class, August 26
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Please download
the syllabus
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Download the
lecture notes (in power point handout mode) for “What is health economics?”
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Check out the
first writing assignment under the “assignments” tab on the class web page