Economics of Health and Education

By Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 5592 | Exam registration: 2077

ABOUT THE COURSE:
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

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Non-government Organizations, students desiring to work in international organisations such as International Food Policy Research Institute, World Health Organisation and the like

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences Management Studies Economics Faculty Domain for Experienced
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jul 2024
End Date :	11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	02 Nov 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Health and education in Human Development: The role of health and education in human development achievements; health and education outcomes as critical links; investments in health and education; country performances

Week 2: Microeconomic Foundations of Health and Education-1: Demand and supply of health and education; understanding the market for health and education

Week 3: Microeconomic Foundations of Health and Education-2: Health and development; health-income linkages; Complementarities between health and education

Week 4: Health Insurance Market: The standard insurance model; Group insurance and administrative costs; Informal insurance mechanisms

Week 5: Market failures: Social objectives and market failures; Policy response; Financing public expenditures in health and education

Week 6: Returns to education: Private and social returns; Job market signaling; Returns to education in developed and developing countries; Returns to education quality

Week 7: Education and Inequality: Inequalities in educational outcomes; Inequalities by race, gender, ethnicity and immigrant status; Changes over time

Week 8: The State of Public Health in India (General lectures): Primary health; Disease burden in India; Health infrastructure and development; General lecture

Week 9: The State of Public Education in India (General lectures): Primary education; Secondary education; Higher education; Education infrastructure and development; General lecture

Week 10: Health databases in India: Discussion on different databases; Government and Scholarly Reports

Week 11: Education databases in India: Discussion on different databases; Government and Scholarly Reports

Week 12: Empirical Studies on Health and Education in India (including health and education financing): Lectures based on a literature review of selected studies

Books and references

Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries, William Jack, WBI Development Studies, The World Bank, 1999.
The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, OUP Oxford, 2013.
The Economics of Education – A Comprehensive Review (second edition), Edited by Steve Bradley and Colin Green, Elsevier Science, 2020.
The Economics of Education, Samuel Akinyemi, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., 2013.
Modern Labour Economics: Theory and Public Policy, R.G. Ehrenberg and R.S. Smith, 11th edition, Addison Wesley, 2006.
The National Health Policy 2017
Annual Reports of Department of Health Research, Government of India, https://dhr.gov.in/documents/annual-reports
NSSO reports on Social Consumption in India
The New Education Policy 2020
The Public Report of Basic Education (PROBE), 1999
Serial reports of Annual State of Education (ASER)
District Information System for Education (DISE)- School Report Cards
The National Family Health Surveys

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta

IIT Guwahati

Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta is a teacher-researcher in the domain of Development Studies. Her college and university trainings are in the discipline of Economics. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Calcutta, with research conducted at the Indian Statistical Institute. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Economics and Development Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. At IIT Guwahati, she teaches, Development Economics and Public Economics to the Btech students. At the postgraduate levels, she teaches courses that are at the intersection of Economics of education, food, nutrition and public health, with particular focus on policy matters. She has earlier floated NPTEL MOOC courses on “Economic Growth and Development” and “Development Research Methods”

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 02 November 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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