Economics of Health and Medical Care (ECON 126, HRP 256)

5 credits · Graduate

Institutional, theoretical, and empirical analysis of the problems of health and medical care. Topics: demand for medical care and medical insurance; institutions in the health sector; economics of information applied to the market for health insurance and for health care; economics of health care labor markets and health care production; and economic epidemiology. Graduate students with research interests should take ECON 249. Approved field credit for the ECON BA and Minor Programs. Students MUST take ECON section in order to count this class for ECON field credit (crosslistings will NOT count).