HEALTH ECONOMICS ESSAY (8-10 pages)

Answer the following questions related to the paper by Dupas (You can skip Section 4)

1. Discuss the main goal of the paper

2. Discuss why we may expect positive effects in the long run and why we may also expect negative effects

3. Describe the health product studied in the paper

4. Describe in detail the two phases of the experiment

5. What are the results in the first phase? (refer to Fig.1) How do they relate to what has been discussed during the lecture?

6. Are there spillover effects? How does the author manage to test for that? (refer to Table 2 and the equation at page 8)

7. Discuss results obtained in the second part of the experiment (refer to both Fig 2 and Table 2)

8. Finally, discuss whether the results obtained can be extended to other important health products