Health Economics ECN 132: Spring 2025

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

Lecture Notes (slides)

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.

Assignments

Past Exams

Spring 2023
 Fall 2022
Further Material (Some of it dated)


A. Colin Cameron / UC-Davis Economics / http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cameron