. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …

. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …

played by informal care (IC), consumption sharing within households, and Medicaid in insuring this risk. We develop a life … reduces the probability of means-tested Medicaid LTC …

U.S. longevity is placing a demand on long-term care services for the impaired and elderly. Medicaid is the primary … and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, gives financial incentive for states to expand Medicaid, transitioning long …-term care services from costly facilities toward home and community-based care. Not all states choose to expand their Medicaid …

The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … institutionalization among the elderly by 1.5 and 3.8 percentage points for those aged 65+ and 80+, a 26-29 percent effect relative to the …

and financing of long-term care in the U.S. We show that the resources of most elderly in the U.S. are insufficient to … time, informal care plays a critical role, with the elderly at every age and every disability level receiving informal care …