The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research … suggests that the nursing supply adjusts to macroeconomic conditions. However, prior work has failed to consider the effect of … direct-care staffing rates in nursing homes using California data. We exploit the wide variation in the unemployment rates …

The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research … suggests that the nursing supply adjusts to macroeconomic conditions. However, prior work has failed to consider the effect of … direct-care staffing rates in nursing homes using California data. We exploit the wide variation in the unemployment rates …

Nursing homes have been caught in the crosshairs of the coronavirus pandemic. As of early May 2020, Covid-19 had … claimed the lives of more than 28,000 nursing home residents and staff in the United States. But U.S. nursing homes were … unstable even before Covid-19 hit. The tragedy unfolding in nursing homes is the result of decades of neglect of long-term care …

Nursing homes serve both long-term care and post-acute care (PAC) patients, two groups with distinct financing …–2018 data for Medicare patients admitted to nursing homes following a hospital stay. To address patient selection into … patient’s residential ZIP code to the closest nursing home with different levels of PAC specialization. We find that patients …

post-acute care settings: skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health agencies (HHA), using two measures of …