Notizie
ECONOMICS OF HEALTH LABOR AND HUMAN CAPITAL
All information regarding the course for the academic year 2024/25 is available on the Moodle page, accessible HERE. Enrollment in the Moodle page must be done using your Uniroma1 credentials.
Syllabus:
1. Labor Economics
1.1 Labor Supply
- Families, women, fertility
1.2 Labor Demand
- Automation
1.3 Labor Market Equilibrium
- Immigration
1.4 Labor Market in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Child labor
- Informality
1.5 Distribution, Employment, and Poverty
- Distribution and inequalities
- Poverty
1.6 Unemployment
1.7 Education and Human Capital
2. Health Economics
2.1 Health Demand
- Socioeconomic status and health
2.2 Supply of Healthcare Services
2.3 Information Economics
2.4 Organization of Healthcare Systems
2.5 International Aid and Development for Health
2.6 Economic Returns of Early-Life Health
2.7 Aging and Population
2.8 The Value of Life and Public Policies
2.9 Health in Poor Countries
- Malaria
- HIV
- Drinking water
- Sanitation and hygiene
- Malnutrition
2.10 Economics of Addictions and Risky Behaviors
- Alcohol
- Obesity
- Drugs
- Smoking
2.11 Ethnicity, Culture, and Institutions
Introduzione all'economia e alla politica economica (canale M-Z)
Tutte le informazioni relative al corso dell'a.a. 24/25 sono disponibili sulla pagina Moodle raggiungibile QUI.
L'iscrizione alla pagina Moodle va effettuata con le proprie credenziali uniroma1.
Programma
Il corso si basa sul libro di testo The CORE team, L'economia, il Mulino, 2018, anche in versione e-book gratuita (https://core-econ.org/the-economy/index.html)
1. L’economia: La rivoluzione capitalista (Cap 1)
2. Scelte individuali: Costi, tecnologia e innovazione (Cap 2)
3. Preferenze e offerta di lavoro (Cap 3), Le interazioni sociali (Cap 4), Scambio (Cap 5)
4. Mercati: L’impresa (Cap 6 e 7), Domanda, offerta e mercati concorrenziali (Cap 8), Il mercato del lavoro (Cap 9), Banche moneta e credito (Cap 10)
5. La macroeconomia nel breve, medio e lungo periodo: Fluttuazioni economiche e disoccupazione (Cap 13), Disoccupazione e politica fiscale (Cap 14), Inflazione disoccupazione e politica monetaria (Cap 15)
6. La storia economia globale dell'ultimo secolo Cap.17 (disponibile nell'e-book versione inglese) - Materiale e slide a cura del docente
Prerequisiti
Non sono previsti prerequisiti formali. E' consigliata la conoscenza di base di analisi matematica.
Modalità di svolgimento
Lezioni frontali in presenza
Orari di ricevimento
Il ricevimento studenti viene concordato a lezione joanna.kopinska@uniroma1.it
Stanza 412 CU002
Curriculum
EDUCATION:
2012 Ph.D. in Economics\Economic Theory and Institutions", University of Rome Tor Vergata
2007 M.Sc. in Development Economics and International Cooperation, 2nd level Master's degree, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2005 M.A. in Finance and Banking, (with Dichiarazione di Valore in loco), University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
CURRENT FELLOWSHIPS:
Center for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) Fellow, Tor Vergata University (2020 - )
VisitINPS Scholars Program Fellow (2022 - ) project: "Fathers' Take-up of Parental Leave: The Role of Local and Firm Factors"
VisitINPS Scholars Program Fellow (2019 - ) principal investigator in project: "Job loss, firm-level heterogeneity and pregnancy outcomes"
TEACHING:
2024 - Economics of Health and Labour Economics, Lecturer (titolare del corso) 9 ects at University of Rome La Sapienza
2022 - Quantitative research methods for development policies Modern Difference-in-Differences designs, PhD course at University of Rome La Sapienza
2020 - Introduction to Economics, Lecturer (titolare del corso) 9 ects at University of Rome La Sapienza
2018 - 2019 Health Economics, Lecturer (titolare del corso) 6 ects at M.Sc. in Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2012- 2024 Empirical methods using STATA, Lecturer (titolare del corso) 3 ects at Master's Graduate program in Development Economics including Erasmus Mundus program, University of Rome Tor Vergata
2014, 2015 Poverty analysis, Lecturer (titolare del corso) at FAO for the National Bureau of Statistics, Abuja (Nigeria)
2012 Applied Health Economics, Assistant lecturer at Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods, University of Rome Tor Vergata
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2019/2020 - World Bank, Consultant for informal work assessment in Morocco
2019/2020 - World Bank, Consultant for poverty and inequality assessment in Seychelles
2018 - World Bank, Consultant for poverty and inequality assessment in Botswana
2016 - 2020 - Fondazione Farmafactoring, Health Economist
2014/2015 Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Consultant for Capacity development in socio-economic impact analysis in Nigeria