Supplemental
ECON 40565 Health Economics
Fall 2007
All files are in PDF format. Note that
some of the articles are scanned copies of book chapters or articles that are
not available in electronic format. As a result, the PDF files are very large.
In some cases, I've broken the files up into two smaller files to ease the
download/printer burden.
I. Course
Overview
What is health economics?
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapter 1.
II. The
Production of Health
A. The
production of health -- An historical perspective
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapter
4.
McKeown, Thomas, The
Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis, 1979, pages 29-44, 91-114.[download part 1][download part 2]
Fogel,
Robert, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100, 2005,
1-42. [download]
B. Modern
determinants of health
Deaton, Angus, “Policy
Implications of the Gradient on Health and Weath,” Health Affairs,
March/April 2002, 13-30.[download]
Marmot,
Marmot, “TheInfluence of Income on Health: Views of an Epidemiologist”, Health
Affairs, March/April 2002, 31-45. [download]
Smith,
J., “Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relationship Between Health and
Economic Status,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 13(2), Spring 1999, 145-66. [download]
Redelmeier,
Donald and S.M. Singh, "Survival in Academy Award-Winning Actors and
Actresses," Archives of Internal Medicine, May 15, 2001, 134(10),
955-965. [download]
C. The
government control of unhealthy behavior
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapters
18 and 22.
Gruber,
J, "Tobacco at
the Crossroads: The Past and Future of Smoking Regulation in the
Perspectives, 15, 2001, 193-212. [download]
Manning,
Willard, et al, The Costs of Poor Health Habits, 1991, pages
1-29.[download part 1][[download part 2]
D. How
economists think about problems: explaining the rise in obesity
Cutler,
David, Edward Glaeser and Jesse Shapiro, “Why Have Americans Become More
Obese?” Journal of Economic Perspective, 2003. [download]
Schanzenbach, D.W., "Do School
Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity,"
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/About/publications/working-papers/pdf/wp_05_13.pdf
[download]
II. Health
Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care
A.
Choices Under Uncertainty -- An
Introduction
Folland,
Goodman and Stano, Chapter 7
B. Adverse
Selection
Rothschild,
Michael and Joseph Stiglitz, “Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An
Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1976, 90(4): 629-650. [download]
Cutler,
David M., and Sarah J. Reber, “Paying for Health Insurance: The Tradeoff
Between Competition and Adverse Selection,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 113(2), May 1998, pp. 433-466.[download]
Simon, Kosali, “Adverse
Selection in Health Insurance Markets?
Evidence from State Small-Group Health Insurance Reforms,” Journal of Public Economics, 89, 2005,
1865-1877. [download]
C. Moral
Hazard
Folland,
Goodman and Stano, Chapter 8
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapter
7, pages 155-160.
Newhouse,
Joseph, Free for All,
ISBN
13: 978-0-674-31846-5 [download part 1][download part 2]
D. Employer-provided
health insurance
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapter 11
Reinhardt,
Uwe, “Employer-Based Health Insurance: A Balance Sheet,” Health Affairs, 1999,
18(6), 124-132. [download]
Custer, William S., et
al., “Why We Should Keep the Employer-Based Health Insurance System,” Health
Affairs, November/December 1999. [download]
Summers,
Krueger, Alan, and Uwe
Reinhart, “The Economics of Employer versus Individual Mandates,” Health
Affairs, Spring (II) 1994, 34-53. [download]
Gruber, J., “The Incidence of
Mandated Maternity Benefits,” American
Economic Review, 84(3), 1994, 622.641.[download]
III. The government provision of health
insurance
A. Medicare
Folland,
Goodman and Stano, Chapter 20
McClellan, M., J Skinner, "The
Incidence of Medicare," Journal of Public Economics, 90, 2006,
257-276. [download]
Bhattacharya,
J. and D. Lakdawaalla, "Does Medicare benefit the poor?” Journal of Public Economics, 90, 2006, 277-292. [download]
Moon, Marilyn, “Health
Policy 2001: Medicare.” New England Journal of Medicine, 344(12), March
22, 2001, 928-931.[download]
B. Medicaid
Rosenbaum, “Health Policy
Report: Medicaid,” New England Journal of Medicine, 346(8), February 21,
2002, 635-639.[download]
Cutler,
D., J. Gruber, "Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance," Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 111, 1996, 391-430. [download]
IV. The
Agency Problem in Health Care
Folland, Goodman and
Stano, Chapter 9.
Please check out the
Dartmouth Atlas, http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/, which is a fascinating graphical presentation of
small-area variation
Gruber,
Jonathan and Maria Owings, “Physician Incentives and Cesarean Section
Delivery,” RAND Journal of Economics, 27(1), Spring 1996, 99-123.[download]
V. Managed
Care
Folland, Goodman and Stano,
Chapter 12
Miller,
Robert and Harold Luft, “HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis of the 1997 -
2001 Literature,” Health Affairs, November/December 1999. [download]
Cutler,
D., M. McClellan, J. Newhouse, “How does managed care do it?” RAND
Journal of Economics, 31(3), 2000, 526-48.
[Download]
VI. R&D, Innovation
and the Pharmaceutical Industry
A. Innovation
as a cost driver in health care
Newhouse,
Joseph, “Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 6(3), 1992, 3-31.
Cutler,
D., M. McClellan, “Is Technological Change in Medicine Worth it? Health
Affairs, 20(5), 2001, 11-29. [download]
B. Pharmaceutical
companies
Folland, Goodman and Stano, Chapter
16.
DiMasi,
J.A., R.W. Hansen, H.G. Grabowski, “The Price of Innovationn: New Estimates of Drug Development Costs, “
Journal of Health Economics, 22, 2003,
151-185. [download]
Reinhardt, Uwe, “Perspectives on the Pharmaceutical Industry,” Health
Affairs, 2001, 20(5), 136-149. [download]
Kremer, Michael, "Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World," Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 16(4). 2002, 67-90. [download]
VII. Medical
Malpractice
Melo,
M.M., et al., “The New Malpractice Crisis,”
Thorpe,
K.E., “The Medicial Malpractice ‘Crisis’:
Recent Trends and the Impact of State Laws,” Health Affairs Web Exclusive,
January
21 2004.