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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing (...

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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219358

Regional healthcare decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 7, pp. 974-985

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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the … emergency hospital admissions, and mortality in the two countries, both at the national and at the regional level. We then …

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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017

the utilization of the public healthcare network. …

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Political agency and public healthcare : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2016

of the strengthening of the political agency on collective healthcare decision-making in rural areas. We use data from … the District Level Household Survey and take advantage of the heterogeneity of maternal and child healthcare use, before … health and sanitation committees on use of both public and preventive healthcare among children. Our results suggest that …

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Access to long term care after a wealth shock : evidence from the housing bubble and burst

Costa-Font, Joan; Frank, Richard G.; Swartz, Katherine - 2017

Home equity is the primary self-funding mechanism for long term services and supports (LTSS). Using data from the relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine...

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"Institutionalization aversion" and the willingness to pay for home health care

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

We examine the presence of a systematic preference for independent living at old age which we refer as "institutionalization aversion" (IA). Given that IA is not observable from revealed preferences, we draw on a survey experiment to elicit individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid...

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"Institutionalization aversion" and the willingness to pay for home health care

Costa-Font, Joan - In: Journal of housing economics 38 (2017), pp. 62-69

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