Economics 970: Health Inequality and Economics

An economics tutorial in Harvard’s Ec 970 program that uses economic models and econometric tools to study the causes and consequences of health inequality—from the roughly 14-year life-expectancy gap between the richest and poorest men to disparities in infant mortality and youth homelessness. Drawing on public health, demography, and sociology alongside economics, the course is designed as an introduction to academic economics, helping students transition from consumers of textbook economics to producers of original research at the intersection of economics and health.
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