AØKK08325U Seminar: Empirical Health Economics

Volume 2015/2016
Education

M.Sc. of Economics

The seminar is primarily for students at the MSc of Economics

Content

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.

Learning Outcome

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
B.Sc. of Economics
The students should have knowledge of Econometrics B. Recommended is knowledge of Health Economics and Advanced Micro Econometrics.
Planning meeting ind the begining of the semester, writing seminar paper during the semester and presentations at the end of the semester.

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
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
A 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 24 3 and 10, 2016

Deadline for handing in final paper: May 6 24, 2016 at 10 AM

For 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.