Health Economics

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In this course we will study the economics of healthcare demand, provision, and institutions. We will use models and techniques from subfields of economics such as industrial organization, labor economics, information economics, public economics, and behavioral economics to understand the incentives of consumers, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and the government as they interact in healthcare markets. The goal is to train students to (a) be able to identify and model the various economic tradeoffs involved in the demand and provision of healthcare, (b) analyze government healthcare policy through the lens of economics, and (c) provide institutional knowledge on American and international health care systems.