We examine the effects of public subsidies on the living arrangements of the disabled
elderly who choose among living independently, living in an intergenerational household …

Logit regression is used to explain living arrangement choice of elderly single individuals.
The propensity to live independently is found to increase with income and decrease with …

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 estimates the impact of income on the long-term care utilization of elderly
Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise similar retirees to receive …

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 …

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

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 …

How likely is nursing home admission for an elderly person? How long does
institutionalization last? These questions concern the elderly and their families, private …

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 …

While interest in publicly funded home care for the disabled elderly is keen, basic policy
issues need to be addressed before an appropriate program can be adopted and financed …