HEDG - Health Econometrics and Data Group

Highlights

Definition of "health econometrics" published
Andrew Jones has prepared a definition of health econometrics for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, online edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
The full text is available (for subscribers) at:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95121-5_2938-1.pdf

Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics
Andrew Jones has edited this encyclopedia that brings together around 100 entries by leading scholars that span all aspects of modern health economics research.
More details are at:
https://oxfordre.com/economics/page/health-economics/

Manning Award
Andrew Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice were awarded the inaugural Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics by the American Society of Health Economists. The award was given for their article "Healthcare cost regressions: going beyond the mean to estimate the full distribution", which was published in Health Economics in 2015. The prize was awarded at the 6th Biennial Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in June 2016.