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The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues. First, it presents new evidence on the relative importance of the two components of HCE that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier...
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Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...
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, and self-employment. The study points to the need for a redesign of maternity protection policy that would enable the …
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of beneficiaries. Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss … benefits in the post-reform period. The consequences of leaving disability insurance differed sharply by pre-reform employment … without pre-reform employment did. The gains of the reform in activating beneficiaries were small and strongly driven by pre …
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We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on … the employment effects occur through the relabeling of existing workers as workers with disabilities, and the remainder …
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