Contents: Preface -- Part I: Active learning assignments -- 1. Introduction to learning and teaching health economics / Allen C. Goodman and Maia Platt -- 2. The health insurance game / Jennifer Kohn -- 3. Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios / Neha Batura, Hassan...

This paper tests functional form for hedonic rent regressions and for rental housing demand regressions for 19 United States metropolitan areas. In the hedonic rent regressions, both linear and loglinear forms are rejected through Box-Cox maximum likelihood procedures. Similar tests for demand...

This study measures urban elderly distributions using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients estimated from 1980 Census data. The results suggest ways that such summary measures can be used to examine population distributions among urban areas. The paper considers three metropolitan areas,...