ECON 4250 - Health Economics

Credits: 3

Description: How we choose to provide and pay for health care has large impacts on both the consumers and producers of health care. We will use economic tools and techniques from information economics, industrial organization, labor economics, public economics, and behavioral economics to examine these issues. The primary goals of the course will be to master different economic techniques in the context of health care markets and learn about the specific institutional details and policies relevant to those markets. Prerequisite: ECON 2020 or permission of instructor.

Prerequisite(s): ECON 2020 or permission of instructor.