Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are supplemental, the others are essential.
Main textbook:
• Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009). Health Economics, 2nd edition, Springer.
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-540-68540-1
Topic 1: Demand for health and health services
Lecture 1 & 2: Demand for health capital - The Grossman model
• Chapter 3 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
• *Grossman, M., (2000). Chapter 7: The human capital model. In Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1, Edited by A.J. Culyer and J.P Newhouse
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574006400801663
• *Bolin, Kristian (2011). Health Production. In The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics. Edited by Sherry Glied and Peter C. Smith (2011).
Lecture 2: Empirical predication of the Grossman model, and Prevention or cure?
• Section 3.3.3 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
• Hey, J.D. and Patel, M.S.m (1983). Prevention and cure? Or: is an ounce of prevention better than a pound of cure? Journal of Health Economics 2, 119-138
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167629683900024
Topic 2: Health insurance
Lecture 3: Basic insurance model
• Chapter 5 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
Lecture 4: Selection in insurance markets
• Einav, l., Finkelstein, A. (2011). Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures. Journal of Economic Perspectives 25, 115-138.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.1.115
Lecture 5: Moral hazard - Theoretical Background
• Chapter 6 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
• *Aron-Dine, A., Liran Einav, L., Finkelstein, A., Cullen, M. (2013). The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(I): 197-222.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41825468.pdf
Lecture 6: Moral Hazard - Empirical evidence
• Einav, L. and Finkelstein, A., 2018. Moral hazard in health insurance: What we know and how we know it. Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(4), pp.957-982.
• *Aron-Dine, A., Liran Einav, L., Finkelstein, A., Cullen, M. (2013). The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(I): 197-222.