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Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy; Li, Jing - 2021

Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing for diagnosis and appropriate treatment, education, psychosocial support, and improved...

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Cognitive impairment and prevalence of memory-related diagnoses among U.S. older adults

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy S.; … - 2021

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Economic perspectives on aging

Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil (contributor) - 2007

Bureau projects that the proportion of the elderly in the total population will increase while the proportion of the working … Elderly. -- Economics of Aging ; Retirement and Health Care Programs ; Government Spending on Elderly ; Fiscal Pressures of …

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States

Kellogg, Maxwell - 2022

While the U.S. Disability Insurance (DI) system is large in terms of fiscal costs and beneficiary rolls, its interactions with household self-insurance mechanisms are not well-understood. In addition to crowding out the insurance value of DI, household self-insurance may drive negative selection...

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When the affordable has no value, and the valuable is unaffordable: The U.S. market for longterm care insurance and the role of Medicaid

Fels, Markus - 2016

I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this argument rests on a wrong counterfactual comparison. Furthermore, I question the welfare-decreasing impact of Medicaid as it neglects a large value of the program in providing...

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When the Affordable Has No Value, and the Valuable is Unaffordable : The U.S. Market for Long-Term Care Insurance and the Role of Medicaid

Fels, Markus - 2016

The crowding-out by Medicaid has been identified as a possible reason for the low demand for private long-term care insurance. I extend the previous analysis to the case in which budget constraints inhibit access to care. This changes the nature, scope, and welfare implications of crowding-out....

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Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Will Fail

Lambert, Thomas A. - 2012

Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) set forth two primary goals: (1) to constrain health care costs and (2) to expand health insurance coverage. In its June 28, 2012 decision upholding the constitutionality of the ACA, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively...

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Net government expenditures and the economic well-being of the elderly in the United States, 1989 - 2001

Kum, Hyunsub (contributor); Wolff, Edward N. (contributor); … - 2006

We examine the economic well-being of the elderly, using the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW … elderly are much better off, relative to the nonelderly, according to our broader measure of economic well-being than by … conventional income measures. The main reason for the higher relative LIMEW of the elderly is the much higher values of income from …

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A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households

Smith, Paul A. - 2008

We construct two measures of the current wealth adequacy of older U.S. households using the 1998-2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The first is the ratio of comprehensive wealth - defined as net worth plus the expected value of future income streams - to the wealth that would...

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