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Institutional long-term care and government regulation : focus on family and portable allowances to lower the costs of institutional long-term care while monitoring its quality

Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2015

The demand for institutional long-term care is likely to remain high in OECD countries, because of longer life expectancy and falling cohabitation rates of the elderly with family members. As shortages of qualified nurses put a cap on the supply of beds at nursing homes, excess demand builds....

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Of Markets and Marriages : A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of U.S. Poverty

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …

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Integrating the human sciences to evolve effective policies

Biglan, Anthony; Cody, Christine - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) S, pp. 152-152

prosociality. Research has also shown that poverty and economic inequality are major risk factors for the development of problem … behaviors. The paper describes policies that can reduce poverty and benefit youth development. Although it is clear that the …

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Household size and poverty

Fusco, Alessio; Islam, Nizamul - In: Inequality, redistribution and mobility, (pp. 151-177). 2021

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Fertility, household size and poverty in Nepal

Libois, François; Somville, Vincent - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 103 (2018), pp. 311-322

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Poverty Among Elderly in India

Srivastava, Akanksha; Mohanty, Sanjay - In: Social Indicators Research 109 (2012) 3, pp. 493-514

India. Poverty estimates are derived under three scenarios—by applying the official cut-off point of the poverty line to … adjusted to household composition. Results show that an estimated 18 million elderly in India are living below the poverty line … incidence of poverty among elderly and non-elderly households in India. This is in contrast to the notion that elderly …

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