AØKK08325U Seminar: Empirical Health Economics
M.Sc. of Economics
The seminar is primarily for students at the MSc of Economics
The purpose of the course is to train the students’ abilities to understand health as an economic concept and carry out empirical analyses on health (micro) data using relevant econometric techniques. Specifically, we shall use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (http://www.share-project.org/) to carry out the empirical projects.
Generally, the topics are bounded to empirical strategies that can be pursued within the SHARE database. These include inequalities in health, risk behaviors, measurement of health, retirement in Europe, Ageing and health policies. For further inspiration students are encouraged to view the long list of publications carried out on SHARE data.
http://www.share-project.org/publications/journalarticles0.html
A central part of the course will be to apply methods on real data, specifically SHARE. Therefore, the students will be obliged to meet data access requirements laid out by SHARE
http://www.share-project.org/data-access-documentation/easyshare.html). SHARE has made the survey ”easySHARE” available for teaching purposes.
If students have an alternative and appropriate micro dataset (which include health information) set up by the beginning of the course, they can use it instead of SHARE. In that case, the student should contact the teacher by the course start, in order to determine the data’s relevance.
- Health Economics, Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde and Peter Tu. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Introductory Econometrics: A modern Approach, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, South-Western
- Strongly encouraged to use “Mostly Harmless econometrics”, Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Princeton University Press
The students should have knowledge of Econometrics B. Recommended is knowledge of Health Economics and Advanced Micro Econometrics.
First Meeting (Information and planning): February 22, 2016 14 -16 hrs
Second Meeting (Research question workshop): February 23, 2016, 12-14 hrs
Poster session: April 1, 2016
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 186
- Seminar
- 20
- Total
- 206
for enrolled students. More information about registration, schedule, rules, courses etc. can be found at the student intranet (KUnet) for courses (English) and student intranet (KUnet) for courses (Danish).
More information about seminars is available in KUnet for Study Programme (UK) and Study Programme (DK).
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentA written seminar paper.
Included in the seminar is an oral presentation for the others participans at the seminar, app. 40 min incl discussion. - Exam registration requirements
Attendance on the seminar. The mandatory commitment paper and seminar paper have been handed in at deadline.
- Aid
Al aids for the written seminarpaper.
For the oral presentation the slices for the presentation. The teacher can specifiy what els is allowed.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
up to 20 % censorship at the seminarpaper
- Exam period
Deadline for handling in commitmentpaper: March 1, 2016
Presentationsmeeting: May
17 and 243 and 10, 2016Deadline for handing in final paper: May
624, 2016 at 10 AMFor enrolled students more information about examination, exam/re-sit, rules etc. is available at the student intranet for Examination (English) and student intranet for Examination (KA-Danish).
- Re-exam
Submission of a written assignmetn and an oral exam in which you may be examined in the presentations of the other students participating in the seminar during the enrolment period in question.
Criteria for exam assesment
The student must in a satisfactory way demonstrate that he/she has mastered the learning outcome of the course.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- AØKK08325U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- Spring (Week 6-21)
- Study board
- Department of Economics, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Economics
Course responsibles
- Torben Heien Nielsen (3-7b6f75476c6a767535727c356b72)