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the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about … the distribution of benefits between the generations? We address these issues analytically and with simulation (using data …
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We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households’ nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a “home” good instead than a market good and...
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We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....
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What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study...
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What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227607
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to … community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays when capacity binds to admit more … episode-based provider reimbursement is more effective in shortening Medicaid stays than increasing resident cost …
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, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion …-in-Differences (DID) design we investigate the policy impact of ACA Medicaid expansion using longitudinal evidence (from the Health and … Retirement Study, HRS) for 2010 to 2018 for low-income individuals aged 64 or below. We find that ACA's Medicaid expansion …
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Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the …-in-differences (DD) design we study the effect of the rollout of the LTCIP program between 2005 and 2016 on both LTCI uptake and Medicaid … eligibility, and we estimate the effect on Medicaid savings. Drawing on a difference-in-differences (DD) design, we find that …
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