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Mohammad ABU-ZAINEH

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A summer school on health inequality

A summer school on health inequality offered by the Tinbergen Institute in collaboration with the Health Economics Group of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam this July 2016. To get more information on this, click here:  http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-insti … nequality/  as well as below.
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SUMMER SCHOOL
IN ECONOMICS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY
JULY 4-8, 2016

TINBERGEN INSTITUTE | ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM

Application Deadline: May 13, 2016

Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam offer a one-week summer school in the economics of health inequality in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on July 4-8, 2016.

The goals are to arm students with tools to measure health inequality and to make them familiar with methods used to explain socioeconomic disparities in health.

FORMAT
Lectures will introduce concepts, explain measures and models, and review evidence. Computing sessions, using STATA , will give students hands-on experience calculating measures, applying decomposition techniques and estimating models. Example STATA  do-files will be provided. Students will complete an assignment during the week and present results on the final afternoon. The tentative course syllabus can be found here<http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-institute-summer-school/ti-summer-school-health-inequality/course-syllabus/>. The summer school is taught in English

PREREQUISITES
The summer school will be highly quantitative and interactive. It is aimed at students who have done an intermediate course in statistics, are familiar with regression analysis and preferably have completed an intermediate course in microeconomics. Those with a public health background who have not previously followed a course in economics should be comfortable with quantitative analysis and be competent in basic calculus. Familiarity with the statistical package STATA  is an advantage. Admission requirements are listed here<http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-institute-summer-school/ti-summer-school-health-inequality/summer-school-health-inequality-participants-admission-requirements/>.

LECTURERS
Course will be taught by Tinbergen Institute research fellows and health economics experts Owen O  Donnell<http://www.tinbergen.nl/fellow/owen-o-a-odonnell/>, Tom van Ourti<http://www.tinbergen.nl/fellow/dr-tom-t-g-m-van-ourti/> , Eddy van Doorslaer<http://www.tinbergen.nl/fellow/prof-eddy-e-k-a-van-doorslaer/>, Titus Galama<http://static.usc.edu/people/staff/galama>, and Hans van Kippersluis<http://www.tinbergen.nl/fellow/hans-j-l-w-van-kippersluis/>.

A participation fee<http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-institute-summer-school/ti-summer-school-health-inequality/summer-school-health-inequality/> applies. More details can be found here<http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-institute-summer-school/ti-summer-school-health-inequality/>.
TI Summer School website: http://www.tinbergen.nl/tinbergen-insti … er-school/
Questions? Please contact: summerschool@tinbergen.nl<mailto:summerschool@tinbergen.nl>
Please find a printer-friendly PDF version of this email HERE<https://gallery.mailchimp.com/43892863b8/files/TISUMMERHEALTHECONOMICS.pdf>

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