The provision of healthcare in the United States is increasingly more reliant on immigrant workers. In this paper, I examine the impact of Secure Communities, a major immigration enforcement program that was designed to check the immigration status of all individuals arrested by local police, on...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010 is an essential milestone for improving the health care coverage of American citizens. This article explores the effects of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act on the racial diversity of the admissions of nursing home residents in...

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to track the portfolios of households following the nursing home entries of HRS participants. For comparison, it also tracks the portfolios of similarly aged individuals who do not enter a nursing home facility. The data show a...

Do the effects of government policy response to health crises differ for for-profit and not-for-profit organizations? We address this question through the lens of a two-sector continuous-time individual-based mean-field theoretical model that incorporates a non-random social network. Using...

Nursing homes serve both long-term care and post-acute care (PAC) patients, two groups with distinct financing mechanisms and requirements for care. We examine empirically the effect of nursing home specialization in PAC using 2011–2018 data for Medicare patients admitted to nursing homes...