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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance - Structure and Reform Options
Arntz, Melanie; Sacchetto, Ralf; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2021
In Germany, long-term care is an important issue due to an aging population and shrinking social networks that result … Germany. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of … several reform options which have been proposed in order to overcome financial and structural problems. Suggestions for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317348
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical - 2019
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance.We study the valuation of the following insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864872
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Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care
Kondo, Ayako - 2019
This paper examines the effect of raising Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI) payments on employment and wages of workers in the long-term care (LTC) industry. Specifically, I use the change in the regional premium in 2012 as an exogenous shock to the insurance fee schedule: the change in the unit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868797
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Informal and Formal Care in Europe
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2021
Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317196
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
Akaichi, Faical; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G. - 2022
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in the United States with and without insurance.We study the valuation of the following insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083403
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Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
Korfhage, Thorben; Fischer, Bjoern - 2023
market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356711
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...
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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform
Kim, Seonghoon - 2018
We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life …-satisfaction. This result is robust to various sensitivity checks and a falsification test. We also find that the reform improved mental …
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China
He, Huajing - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health … and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers … in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference (DD) estimations show that the reform also leads to better health …
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