Course10910350133 lectures
Economics of Health and Education
Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta · IIT Guwahati
About
Economics of Health and Education will introduce students to the microeconomic foundations of health and education as economic goods. This course will lay emphasis on theory and practice. The focus of this course will be on the developing countries experience with particular reference to India. We will draw knowledge from the larger literature on human capital and human development and understand the linkages and implications. To be able to carry out empirical analyses as an outcome of this course, students will also learn about the current health and education policy of India as well as the most used databases. General lectures on public health and education in India are planned to introduce students to the debates in this field. All candidates interested in understanding the health and education sectors of developing countries such as India are encouraged to enroll.
Intended audience: Undergraduates, Postgraduates, PhD students, Faculty Development Programme
Lectures
Week 1: Health and education in Human Development
- Lec 1: Links of Health & Education Achievements to Human Development
- Lec 2: Health and Education: Human Capital or Human Right?
Week 2: Microeconomic Foundations of Health - I
- Lec 3: Unique Aspects of Health Economics
- Lec 4: Perfect Competition and Healthcare Markets
- Lec 5: Demand for Health-1 (Grossman model)
Week 3: Microeconomic Foundations of Health - II
- Lec 6: Demand for Health-2 (Is demand for health downward sloping)
- Lec 7: Demand for Health-3 (Comparative statistics)
- Lec 8: Demand for Health-4 (Health disparities and hypothesis)
Week 4: Microeconomic Foundations of Health III
- Lec 9: Economics of Healthcare: Supply side
- Lec 10: Demand for insurance
- Lec 11: Adverse Selection & Moral Hazard
Week 5: Microeconomic Foundations of Education
- Lec 12: Demand for Education
- Lec 13: A Basic Model of Human Capital Investment & A Few Influential Thinkers
- Lec 14: Production of Education & Returns to Education - based on global data
Week 6: Externalities and Market Failure
- Lec 15: Fiscal functions of budget policy and the concept of public food
- Lec 16: Public goods, private goods, merit goods; Market failures & corrections
- Lec 17: Is higher education a public good, a quasi-public good or a merit good?
Week 7: Health and Education Inequalities
- Lec 18: Inequalities of Outcomes & Opportunities
- Lec 19: Equity in Healthcare
- Lec 20: Education Inequalities in Developing Countries & India
Week 8: Policies
- Lec 21: India's Health Policy
- Lec 22: India's Education Policy
- Lec 23: Right to Health & Universal Health Care - The Indian Context
Week 9: Status of Health and Education in India
- Lec 24: Global Disease Burdens
- Lec 25: How ASER is Addressing the Problem of Learning Crisis in India
- Lec 26: The PROBE Reports - Public Reports in Basic Education
Week10: Databases
- Lec 27: Indian Morbidity & Mortality surveys
- Lec 28: Indian Official Statistics on school education and higher education
Week11: General Lecture
Week 12: General Lecture
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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