I examine how decreases in government coverage of home health care visits to the elderly
in the United States have affected their living arrangements. Specifically, I exploit …

Home health care is long-term care, primarily skilled nursing, delivered in a home setting. Its
provision may increase the likelihood that the elderly, the vast majority of which are …

This paper analyses the impact of Medicaid home care benefits on the probability of nursing
home entry and the use of formal and informal home care by disabled elderly remaining in …

Using a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy to study the market for home
health care, I find that the introduction of tightly binding average per-patient reimbursement …

Over the last twenty-five years, the homeownership rate of households 65 years and older
has risen steadily, while the homeownership rate for 35–64 year old households has …

State policies vary widely on paying friends and family rather than home care agencies to
care for the elderly. We explore two state programs that exemplify different payment options …

This paper measures the extent to which the price of nursing home care affects a potential
substitute living arrangement: coresidence with adult children. Exploiting variation in state …

Prologue: Home health care is an expanding piece of the US health care pie. While hospital
care spending increased by 11.1 percent in 1990 and physician services spending by 11.0 …

In many countries around the world, the demographic transition into reduced fertility and
mortality has forced the private and public sectors to grapple with the care of rapidly aging …

This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We
consider how the biological forces, which govern the stocks of frail and healthy persons in a …