ECON 440 : Health Economics

This undergraduate-level course in health economics focuses on the economic behavior of individuals, health care providers, insurers, and government actors in relation to health and medical care. Topics include the relationships between socio-economic factors and health, health and labour markets, health insurance, rationing of medical care, physician payment, evaluating medical technology, health care costs, and disparities in health and health care.

We focus on examples from Canada and the United States. Undergraduate-level microeconomic theory is required. Additional coursework (prior or concurrent) in applied econometrics, public finance or labour economics is helpful.

PPOL 605: Analytical Methods for Policy Evaluation

This course aims to introduce students to the use of key methods of quantitative impact evaluation and policy analysis. The course covers the basics of simple and multiple regression for cross-sectional data, as well as some further methods more specifically geared at policy evaluation, like instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and difference in differences. The course will expose students to analytical tools to address empirical questions. Students will also gain experience in applying these tools to real data using statistical software (Stata). Finally, students will gain a sufficient awareness of these quantitative techniques to be able to understand the presentation of empirical results in academic articles and professional reports, and to critically appraise their usefulness and appropriateness.

While we will cover some technical material, the focus of the course will be on applications, on the intuition of the methods we discuss, and on the interpretation of results.

ECON 744: Health Economics

This graduate-level course in health economics focuses on the economic behavior of individuals, health care providers, insurers, and government actors in relation to health and medical care. Topics include the relationships between socio-economic factors and health, health and labour markets, health insurance, rationing of medical care, physician payment, evaluating medical technology, health care costs, and disparities in health and health care. We focus on examples from Canada and the United States.

EPIB 672 Estimating the Causal Effects of Social Policy on Health, McGill University, summers 2013 & 2015

PPHS 527 Economics for Health Services Research and Policy, 2009-2018, 2021

MPH 208 Evaluation of Public Health Programmes, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Paris, France, taught annually; November 2016-present

MPH 213 Health Economics, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Paris, France, taught annually; November 2021-present