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 …

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 …

The long-term (convalescent) health-care industry in the United States faces three well
documented problems:(1) many financially indigent patients cannot gain access to nursing …

Limited evidence exists on whether expanding home care saves money overall or how
much institutional long‐term care can be reduced. This paper estimates the causal effect of …

In this paper I show that the Medicaid program can improve the access of financially indigent
patients to nursing home care by raising the rate of return paid on Medicaid patients' care …

Nursing home expenditures are a rapidly growing share of national health care spending
with the government functioning as the dominant payer of services. Public insurance for …

OBJECTIVE: To examine nursing home demand, focusing on how Medicaid affects demand,
the role of economic variables, and on important interactions between explanatory factors …

Economists long have speculated that Medicaid subsidies and related policies cause many
nursing home markets to operate under conditions of permanent excess demand, resulting …

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 …

Medicaid covers the costs of a long nursing home stay. This coverage may create an
incentive for the elderly to transfer their assets to their children to qualify for Medicaid before …