Health Economics ECN 132: Cancelled
Spring 2024
ECN 132 will not be offered Spring 2024. I apologize for the
short notice.
For those interested in the data analysis part of the course the
department has added seats for
- ECN 141 - Economics and Financial Forecasts taught by Professor
Shen.
For those interested in the microeconomics of individual behavior
part of the course we suggest especially the following courses
which have seats available
- ECN 190 Topics in Economics: Behavioral Economics taught by
Professor Anujit Chakraborty
- ECN 151A Economics of the Labor Market taught by Professor
Jeanna Stearns
- ECN 151B Human Resources taught by Shahar Sansani
Prof Cameron
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Health Economics 132:
(1) Provides a detailed description of the institutional features
of the health care market and current trends in this rapidly
changing field;
(2) Demonstrates the use and usefulness of analyzing the health
care market using economic analysis, particularly microeconomics;
(3) Analyzes individual-level health data using
regression methods.
The course is directed to both economics majors and to non-majors
with adequate background.
Required pre-requisites:
Economics 100A (Intermediate Microeconomics) or ARE 100A or
consent of instructor.
An upper division regression class: one of Economics 102,
Economics 140, ARE 106, Statistics 108 or consent of instructor.
Syllabus
Course materialsCOurse materials will be posted at the course Canvas site (http://canvas.ucdavis.edu).
The text is recommended but is not required.
Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde and Peter Tu: Health
Economics, First edition, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
The course uses the statistical package Stata. This is available
in university computer labs but you may want to purchase your
own copy - see the course syllabus.
Past Exams
A. Colin Cameron / UC-Davis Economics / http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron