BASIC REFERENCES
Health Economics: Economics 132  Fall 2007
Colin Cameron
Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Calif. - Davis

You should read all relevant parts of the textbook (see Syllabus):
Sherman Folland, Allen Goodman, Miron Stano, The Economics of Health and Health Care, 5th ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

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.