Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Health Econometrics
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
HEA601089
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
In this course, students will study how economists use econometric models to analyze data, and in so doing, investigate the real world issues and suggest policy implications to policy makers. This course introduces the standard methods for estimating relationships between observed variables, and testing hypotheses about economic relationships based on theories.
The focus will be on the estimation of econometric models, and interpretation of the estimation results. Econometric models that are widely used in journal articles and the models in healthcare management are introduced in the course. For each model, students will be introduced the uses, the implementation of the model using econometric package (RStudio), and the interpretation of the estimation results.
This course also introduces participants the basics of R programming language for implementing popular econometric models, including the linear regression model, panel data models, and models with limited dependent variables. The course also gets participants familiar with matrix operations and mathematical programming, which is necessary for advanced econometric models.
Lectures of this course are organized by econometric models or topics. Each lecture consists of a brief review of the econometric issues, the R packages or programming (estimation and post-estimation) skills applicable for the econometric issues with real data.