ECO 646 – the Economics of Health

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Announcements:

Final Exam Study Questions – Note there were changes to some of the problems I gave in class today as well – clarifications. So disregard that handout and use this:

PhD Students

Non-PhD Students

Kreier’s Talk – November, 2005

Empirical Tests of Grossman

Empirical Research on Health Production

RAND HIE, AER - Discussion

Some Online Journal Articles from Reading List:

Arrow, 1963 AER, Uncertainty

Grossman, 1972, Health Demand

Manning et al., 1987, Rand Experiments

Discussion Papers - The agenda is as follows:

Date	Presenter	Topic
Moday, Oct 10^th	Deb Dwyer	Implicit Versus Explicit Ranking: On inferring ordinal preferences for health care programmes based on differences in willingness to pay
Monday, Oct 17^h	Dan Wolman	Smoking, Health, Risk, and Perception, JHE, v24#4
Wed, Oct 19^th	Jeffrey Jones	Alcohol Use and Risky Sexual Behavior
Monday, Oct 24^th	Marc Czyrny	Incomplete Risk Adjustment
Mon. Oct 31	Shino Komatsudani	Disparities in Federal Disability Benefits
Wed. Nov 2	Jose Laborde Imke Harren	Healthy Living Health Care Rationing in Germany

Lecture Activities and handouts:

Data Sources Lecture

LA #1 – lecture activity 1 on first day

Download this document for guidelines to reading a research paper: guidelines

Problem Sets:

PS #1

Sample Proposals:

Obesity: Causes, Consequences, Cures – Debra Sabatini Dwyer, NIH Grant Proposal

- I am keeping this as is, but there are 4 authors on this large grant proposal, and it is indisciplinary. So the language might be slightly different and the emphasis is different. But it is good for you to see. And if you wrote a similar one it should be fine. It is very long because there are 3 aims to the study. You only need one aim in your study. So you can evaluate each aim as a separate proposal. It is 22 pages. Yours is likely to be more like 8 pages.

Health and Retirement, Using Quantile Regression Analysis: Debra Sabatini Dwyer, MRRC Grant Proposal