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EC5507: TOPICS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICS (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:38


Course Overview

This course is organized around a series of lectures, tutorials and computer workshops. We first review the microeconomics of consumption and investment in health choices. This helps to motivate the estimation methods frequently encountered in health econometrics. We then study (at the level of Cameron and Trivedi's Microeconometrics, or Goldberger's A Course in Econometrics) several topics including heteroscedasticity, measurement error, instrumental variables estimation and linear models for panel data. We also study econometric methods to estimate causal effects including natural experiments and field experiments. There are problem sets and computer assignments that are discussed in the tutorials.  

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Ramses Abul Naga

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either MRes Applied Economics (Studied) or MSc Applied Economics (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Health behaviours and health inequalities Incentives on the supply side Incentives on the demand side Modelling health outcomes from survey data Errors in variables and unobserved heterogeneity Panel data models and methods

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

1st attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (80%) and one 1hr multiple choice class test (20%) Resit: By examination (100%) with passes capped at CAS mark 9.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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