Behavioral Economics

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This 12-lecture module covers more advanced topics in Behavioral Economics, a branch of economics that derives insights from psychology to study how people behave under real-world circumstances.

Approximate Duration: 8 hours

This course will address the following competencies important for Healthcare Delivery Science:

  • Demonstrate ability to assess the extent to which research activities will likely contribute to the quality, equity, or value of health systems.
  • Demonstrate the ability to compose feasible and timely research questions and hypotheses, incorporating stakeholder priorities, to generate evidence that informs meaningful clinical and policy decisions.
  • Demonstrate ability to use theory and conceptual models in the design and interpretation of Learning Health System research.
  • Demonstrate ability to select and interpret appropriate clinical, financial, and patient-centered outcomes of interest based on the concepts they measure and their measurement properties.

Combines the economics of incentives with psychology’s insights about how people behave under real-world circumstances.

Lectures: 

  • Preference, Probability, Utility
  • Utility Elicitation
  • Supply and Demand
  • Demand Shifts in Medical Services
  • Biases & Heuristics
  • Prospect Theory

All pages must be viewed and the quizzes must be passed for this module to show as completed and to earn a Certificate of Completion and a Digital Badge.
Jason Doctor, PhD, The Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine and Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California.
Price: $160.00
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