BASIC REFERENCES
Health Economics: Economics 132  Winter 2014
Colin Cameron
Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Calif. - Davis

If you have the textbook, read all relevant parts of the textbook (see Syllabus):
Thomas Getzen, Health Economics and Financing, 5th ed., Wiley, 2013.

The following readings are compulsory and are provided in the course reader.

* Reading 1: Paully, Mark V. (1968), "The Economics of Moral Hazard: Comment", American Economic Review, Vol.58, pp.531-537.

* Reading 2: Manning, Willard G. et al. (1987), "Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment", American Economic Review, May 1987, pp.251-277.  [Focus on pages 251-256, 258-260, 267-271].

* Reading 3: Miller, Robert H. and Harold S. Luft (1997), "Does Managed Care Lead to Better or Worse Quality of Care?", Health Affairs, Vol.16, September, pp.7-25.

* Reading 4: Neuhauser, Duncan and Ann M. Lewicki (1975), "What Do We Gain from the Sixth Stool Guiac?", New England Journal of Medicine, July 31, Vol.293, No.5, pp. 226-228.

* Reading 5: Cutler, D.M and M. McClellan (2001), "Is Technological Change in Medicine Worth It?", Health Affairs, Vol. 20, Sept/Oct, pp.10-29.

* Reading 6: Sturm, Roland (2002), "The Effects Of Obesity, Smoking, And Drinking On Medical Problems And Costs", Health Affairs, March/April, Vol. 21(2), pp. 245-253.

* Reading 7: Chou, Shin-Yi, Grossman, Michael, and Saffer, Henry (2004), "An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System", Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 23(3), pp. 565-587.

For Additional References (not required for course) see additional references.