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Lehrende: Philip Huynh; Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Behav. Health Econ.
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
10 | 25
Kommentare/ Inhalte:
The course aims to introduce to students the main principles, methods, measures, and insights of behavioral economics, in particular, experimental economics. At the same time, applications to health economics are discussed. The course is designed to enhance students’ abilities to apply critically behavioral science tools to concrete challenges in the health area. It covers risk preferences and health, risk health behavior, time preferences and health, financial and non-financial incentives, behavioral insights for blood and organ donation, behavioral insights for health insurance, and nudging behavioral change in health.
Lernziel:
First, students know main principles, methods, measures, and insights of behavioral economics and the key state-of-the-art applications to health economics. Second, they are sensitive to different experimental designs and the way of data collection. Third, students are able to critical evaluate a number of aspects regarding internal and external validity.
Vorgehen:
The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, the course provides behavioral economics foundations and applications to health economics. In the second part, students will be expected to select a study from a list of papers. On this basis, students are expected to produce a presentation, in which they will propose a design of a possible experiment. Fellow students ask questions, discuss and possibly improve the experiment.
Students will be expected to write a 3000-4000 word report to be submitted individually until 2021/03/17, which will build on the individual presentation.
Grading: 100% report (provided the experimental design was presented).
Literatur:
Behavioral economics in the area of health
Hanoch, Y., Barnes, A., & Rice, T. (Eds.). (2017). Behavioral economics and healthy behaviors: Key concepts and current research. Taylor & Francis.
Galizzi, M. M., & Wiesen, D. (2018). Behavioral experiments in health economics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.
Galizzi, M. M. (2014). What is really behavioral in behavioral health policy? And does it work?. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36(1), 25-60.
Introduction to the method of behavioral and experimental economics - books
Weimann, J., & Brosig-Koch, J. (2019). Methods in Experimental Economics. Springer International Publishing.
Cartwright, E. (2018). Behavioral economics. Routledge.
Dhami, S. (2016). The foundations of behavioral economic analysis. Oxford University Press.
Popular science books
There have been a plethora of popular science books in the field of behavioral economics in recent years, which provide an informal introduction and discuss some of the implications. If you are interested in the topic of behavioral economics and would like to read beyond the seminar, I will give you a short selection here.
New:
Esther Duflos and Abhijit Banerjee’s (2019) Good Economics for Hard Times. Topics: Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change.
The classics:
Thaler’s (1992) The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. Is a collection of great and easy-to-read articles.
Ariely’s (2008) Predictably Irrational offers more of a psychologist’s perspective on the topics.
Thaler and Sunstein’s (2008) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness draws out a view on some of the policy implications.
Schwartz’s (2008) A guide to Behavioral Economics could be a place to get you an idea about the field, it is written for a non-economist audience.
Chabris and Daniel Simons’ (2010) The invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
Kahneman’s (2012) Thinking, Fast and Slow on intuitive vs rational decision making.
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