Instructor: Robin D. Hanson, Asst. Professor, Economics
(rhanson@gmu.edu, http://hanson.gmu.edu)
Office Hours: Officially MW 1:30-3:00. But I'm usually in at 10b Carow Hall.
Call ahead (703-993-2326) if you want to be sure.
Catalog Entry:
Econ 496, 895 Health Economics (3:3:0). Prerequisites: ECON 103. Determinants of Health. Supply, Demand, and Institutions of Health Insurance and Care. Evaluation of Market Failure Rationales for Regulation.Reccomended Texts: (None are required.)
Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano, Economics of Health and Health Care, 3/e, Prentice Hall Business Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-13-012215-7, Sample Price $67.
Charles E. Phelps, Health Economics, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-673-99398-1, Sample Price $68.
Joseph P. Newhouse And The Insurance Experiment Group, Free For All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Harvard University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-674-31914-1 Sample Price $58.Goal of Class
For undergraduates: To become familiar with basic facts and issues in health economics, and to be able to make an economically-coherent defense of one's opinions on health policy questions.Assignments:
For graduate students: To in addition write a coherent research paper in health economics.
Week | Lecture Topic | |
21 Jan | Overview of Health & Health Policy | |
28 Jan | What Makes Us Healthy? | |
4 Feb | More What Makes Us Healthy? | |
11 Feb | Does Medicine Help Health? | |
18 Feb | Medicine in Other Times and Places | |
25 Feb | Health Externalities | |
4 Mar | Demand for Health and Medicine | |
11 Mar | Spring Break | |
18 Mar | Supply of Medicine - Old | |
25 Mar | Supply of Medicine - New | |
1 Apr | Health Insurance | |
8 Apr | Variation in Quality of Medicine | |
15 Apr | Licensure, Certification, and Bans | |
22 Apr | Other Ways to Get Information on Quality | |
29 Apr | Showing That You Care | |
6 May | Review |
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