AØKA08079U Health Economics

Textbook:

Health Economics, Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde and Peter Tu. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles (a selection of the following):

Arrow (1963) “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care” American Economic Review 53(5): 941-973

Grossman, M. (2000): The human capital model of the demand for health. In A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse (eds.):  Handbook of Health Economics, Vol. 1A, chapter 7, p. 347-408.

Cutler, DM and Lleras-Muney A. Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence. In RF Schoeni, JS House, G Kaplan and H Pollack (Eds.): Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economics Policy as Health Policy, New York: Russell Sage Foundation 2008. Published as NBER: http:/​/​www.nber.org/​papers/​w12352.

Almond, D and Currie, J, Human Capital development before age five, Handbook of Labor Economics vol 4b. 2010.

Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) “Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information” Quarterly Journal of Economics 90 (4): 629-649

Cutler, D., Finkelstein, A. and McGarry, K. ” Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance”,  American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2008, 98:2, 157–162

Almond, D and Currie, J, ”Killing me softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis”, Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 25, Number 3—Summer 2011—Pages 153–172

Black, Sandra E., Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes, From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007) 122 (1): 409-339

Arendt , Jacob Nielsen (2005), Does education cause better health? A panel data analysis using school reforms for identification, Economics of Education Review, Vol. 24, issue 2, April 2005, pp. 149-160

Einav, Liran and Amy Finkelstein, ”Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures”, Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 25, Number 1—Winter 2011—Pages 115–138

Cutler, David M., Amy Finkelstein, and Kathleen McGarry. 2008. "Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance." American Economic Review, 98(2): 157-62.

Kremer, Michael. 2002. "Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World ." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(4): 67-90.

Pedersen, K.M., Christiansen, T. & M. Bech (2005). The Danish health care system: evolution  - not revolution - in a decentralized system. Health Economics 14: S41-S57.

Olejaz M, Juul Nielsen A, Rudkjøbing A, Okkels Birk H, Krasnik A, Hernández-Quevedo C. Denmark: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2012, 14(2):1 – 192.

Jensen, V.M. (2013): Happy Doctor Makes Happy Baby? – Incentivizing Physicians improves Quality of Prenatal Care, forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, published online June 20, 2013.

Siciliani L, Hurst J (2005). Tackling excessive waiting times for elective surgery: a comparative analysis of policies in 12 OECD countries . Health Policy 72: 201-215.

Feldman R. (1994). The cost of rationing medical care by insurance coverage and by waiting. Health Economics; 3(6): 361-72.

Cutler DM, Ed Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro, ”Why Have the Americans Become More Obese?” Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 17, Number 3—Summer 2003—Pages 93–118

Bleakley, H., 2007. Disease and development: evidence from hookworm eradication in the American South. Q. J. Econ. 122 (1), 73–117.

Bhalotra, S., Venkataramani, A., 2012. The captain of the men of death and his shadow: early life health, human capital Investment and institutions. (RR JPE).

Jayachandran, S., Lleras-Muney, A., 2009. Life expectancy and human capital investments: evidence from maternal mortality declines. Q. J. Econ. 124 (1), 349–397.

Jayachandran, S., Lleras-Muney, A., Smith, K.V., 2010.Modernmedicine and the twentieth century decline in mortality: evidence on the impact of sulfa drugs. Am. Econ. J. Appl. Econ. 2, 118–146 (April).

Lucas, A.M., 2010. Malaria eradication and educational attainment: evidence from Paraguay and Sri Lanka. Am. Econ. J. Appl. Econ. 2, 46–71.

Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., 2007. Disease and development: the effect of life expectancy on economic growth. J. Polit. Econ. 115 (6), 925–985.

Feyrer, J., D. Politi, Weil, D. The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States. NBER Working Paper 19233.

S. Black, A. Butikofer, P. Devereux, K. Salavanes, 2014 . This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Downfall from Nuclear Weapon Testing”

Almond, D., 2006 “Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population” Journal of Political Economy, 114 (August 2006), 672-712.

Adam Isen et al. (2015). Every Breath You Take — Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970. (RR JPE).

Barreca et al. (2013.). Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century. (Forthcoming JPE)

Alsan, M., C. Goldin (2015). Watersheds in Infant Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880 to 1915. Working paper.

Barreca, A, K. Clay, J. Tarr,. 2014. Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating. NBER Working Paper.

Barreca, Al.. 2010. The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria. Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 865-892.

Cutler et al. (2006). the Determinants of Mortality, Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 20, Number 3—Summer 2006—Pages 97–120.

Culter and Miller (2005).  THE ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH ADVANCES: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES*. Demography.

Miller, G. (2008). "Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness, and Child Survival in American History", Quarterly Journal of Economics.