ECON 131Economics of Health and Healthcare
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Economic analysis of health and healthcare. Presentation of several detailed economic models, including models of addiction, demand for healthcare, demand for insurance, nonprofit behavior, and other models. Evaluation of quantitative information from course readings and development of better understanding of econometric concepts and results.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 131L.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ECON 131
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 103Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- ECON 103LEconometrics Laboratory
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
- ECON 131LEconomics of Health and Healthcare Laboratory
4 direct requisites. Showing 34 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.