analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …

analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …

analyses suggest informal caregiving as the most likely mechanism. The effect is muted after a liberalization of the formal … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … care market, which sharply increased the supply of foreign care workers. …

health insurance choices of the elderly. We find that having more social interactions, as measured by contacts with friends … and neighbors, reduces the likelihood of enrolling in a Medicare managed care plan relative to purchasing a medigap policy … the health insurance choices of the elderly and provide suggestive evidence that "word-of-mouth" information sharing may …