Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Reyn van Ewijk
Veranstaltungsart: Hauptseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: S:Stat.&Econometrics
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | -
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: It is assumed that participating students have a solid background in microeconometric methods.
Inhalt: In this seminar we study health throughout people’s life courses. Circumstances, choices and interventions during each of the phases of our life courses can affect not only our health, but also other human capital outcomes such as educational and labor market outcomes. Moreover, effects are often not only short-run, but can last throughout our lifetimes. This means that the earlier phases of our lives may be most relevant for us if we want to understand the determinants of health and human capital. And from a policy perspective, early interventions may be highly cost effective, as their effects are so long-lasting. (One may also think of this as “prevention is more efficient than curing”.) But this does not mean that later life phases are not relevant to study in their own respect: each life phase has its own challenges that are worth studying thoroughly. This seminar shows the life course perspective on health by studying five essential phases of the human life:
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Zusätzliche Informationen: Contact: Prof. Dr. Reyn van Ewijk (vanewijk"at"uni-mainz.de