ECON 295 - Special Topics in Economics

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisites: Normally ECON 101 and 102 but may vary with topic. Course emphasis and prerequisites change from term to term and are announced prior to preregistration. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. A maximum of nine credits chosen from all special topics in economics courses may be used, with permission of the department head, toward requirements for the economics major.

Fall 2013 Topic:

ECON 295:Health Economics in Developing Countries (3). Prerequisite: ECON 101. A survey of the major issues of health economics, with a focus on developing countries. Economic modeling of health related issues, supply and demand of health, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis. Health goals and policy alternatives. The relationship between health and education, including for example the links between maternal education and child health, and child health and child schooling. Health and the labor market, including for example the relationship between adult health and adult labor market outcomes, and child labor and child health. Epidemiology: HIV/AIDS and worms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Selected case studies. Blunch. Staff.