Profile Seminar "Gesundheit und Bevölkerung"
| General Features | |
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| Title | Seminar "Gesundheit und Bevölkerung" |
| Research focus homepage | See link and Stud.IP |
| Reference number | 375016 / 77788 |
| Semester | Summer Term 2025 |
| Kick-Off-Event | 22 April 2025 - 2.30-4pm, III-115 |
| Rhythm of the event | Summer and winter term |
| Contents | Participating students are required to compose a term paper on a selected paper of authors that presented in the colloquium "Health and Population". More specifically, the aforementioned term paper consists of an "article critique”. The colloquium allows the students to discuss with external researchers and to analyze current research and state-of-the-art methods in empirical health and population economics. Knowledge of econometrics, in particular causal estimation methods is helpful. Attendance is compulsory. |
| Target Audience | MSc Wiwi PO 2012 Major Health Economics, MSc Wiwi PO 2018 Area Health Economics |
| Slot Number | 15 |
Language | Presentations in English, term paper in English or German |
| Venue | kick-off: III-115 colloquium: III-115 group check-ins/individual appointments: tba |
| Practice Partners | Not applicable |
| Requirements and Support | |
| Objective | Participation is intended to sharpen the students' critical thinking skills by writing a critical statement on a research paper. This explicitly includes the review of the empirical literature. |
| Required prior knowledge | Knowledge of econometrics, in particular causal analysis, and health economics |
| Supporting course for an introduction to scientific work | Course "introduction to scientific writing" (in German) (compare Stud.IP "Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten") |
| Formal requirements | See "Leitfaden" issued by the Institute of Health Economics. |
| General Literature |
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| Basic literature as an introduction to each topic | Will be provided |
| Methodology | Article critique |
| Special software used | Not applicable |
| Recommended word processing software | At the students' discretion (Microsoft Word, LaTex) |
| Term paper page count | Required page count is announced during kick-off event |
| Discussion of outline and progress | 27 May 2025 - 2.30-4pm group meeting. Further dates and individual meetings upon request. |
| Performance requirements | 25% presentation, 75% seminar paper, attendance mandatory (4 out of 6 presentations) |
| Assessor | Prof. Dr. Annika Herr |
| Contact Person | Andrea Maffeis |
| Group Work and Assignment of Topics | |
| Group work | Not applicable |
| Group size | Not applicable |
| Group composition procedure | Not applicable |
| Topics | Announced in Stud.IP on April 1st, before kick-off (for a preview of the authors presenting, see link) |
| Topic allocation procedure | During kick-off, preference-based. |
| Type of pre-registration | Individual arrangement |
| Schedule | |
| Stud.IP Signup | Active |
| Pre-registration / application | Sign in via Stud.IP[AH1] until April 6, 2025 |
| Preliminary discussion / topic presentation / kick-off meeting | 22 April 2025, 2.30-4pm Note that a participation in the course is only possible if students attend the kick-off meeting. |
| Topic assignment | During kick-off meeting |
| Binding registration | Until 06.05.2025 |
| Start of processing term paper | After topic assignment |
| Term paper submission | 30.09.2025 |
| Presentation submission | 22.06.2025 |
| Presentation event | 24.06.2025, 2.30-5.30pm |
