Anna Aizer – Teaching

Health Economics for Undergraduates (Econ 136)

This course will survey the major topics in health economics. It is designed to introduce you to the issues, theory and practice of health economics. The majority of the course will focus on current empirical research in the field as it pertains to the US and course work will include empirical analyses based on existing health datasets using the software STATA. The topics include the economic determinants of health, social and economic inequalities in health, the market for medical care, the market for health insurance and the role of the government in health care. Those interested in studying health economics in the context of developing countries are urged to take courses with Professors Foster, Munshi or Pitt.

Labor Economics for Undergraduates (Econ 131)

This course focuses on the theoretical and empirical analyses of wage and employment determination. Topics to be covered include labor supply and demand, earnings inequality, human capital, immigration, unions, discrimination and crime.

Syllabus Labor Economics (econ131)

Health Economics for Graduates (Econ 236)

This course is divided in two parts. The first covers the basic issues and empirical techniques in applied microeconomics and the second will introduce you to the issues, theory and practice of health economics. This course will do two things: 1) familiarize you with the methodological problems and approaches in applied microeconomics with applications to the theory of human capital and 2) survey the major topics in Health Economics. By the end of this course you should understand how to draw credible inference using non-experimental data and be able to contribute to public policy debates regarding health and medical care in the US.

Syllabus Health Economics (econ236)