Increasing long-term care demand raises the need of high quality care in nursing homes. This study analyses whether higher prices have a causal effect on quality of care in Swiss nursing homes and assesses the extent of cross-subsidization between different price components. We use...

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

Providing support to older people with disabilities will increasingly challenge care systems in all countries. Accurately gauging the unmet need is a first step in response. Disability is commonly measured by documenting people's capacity to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and...

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

Patients in the United States are routinely undertreated for pain. This problem has been widely recognized and documented in medical literature. In a seminal medical study of end-of-life care, researchers found that 50% of all patients who died during hospitalization quot;experienced moderate or...

The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women...

We estimate a Bayesian model of nursing home quality using variational inference. We then conduct three exercises. First, we examine the correlates of quality, finding that public report cards have near-zero correlation. Second, we show that higher quality nursing homes fared better during the...