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 3.1 - 3.3 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: Demand for health capital - Empirical predictions of the Gross-man model
? Section 3.3.3 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
? Almond, D., and Currie, J. (2011) Human Capital Development before Age Five. Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4b, Edited by D, Card and O, Ashenfelter.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169721811024130
Lecture 3: Prevention or cure?
? Hey, J.D. and Patel, M.S., (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 4: Basic insurance model
? Chapter 5 in Zweifel, Breyer and Kifmann (2009).
? *Kifmann M., (2005). Health insurance in a democracy: Why is it public and why are premiums income related? Public Choice, 124(3-4), 283-308.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11127-005-2049-z.pdf
Lecture 5: 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 6: Moral hazard
? 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