In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...

This paper provides regression discontinuity evidence on development impacts of intergovernmental transfers. Extra transfers in Brazil increased local government spending per capita by about 20 percent over a 4 year period with no evidence of crowding out own revenue or other revenue sources....

We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children’s longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers’ Pension program — the first...

In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery for the chance to apply for Medicaid. Using this randomized design and 2009 administrative data, we find no significant effect of Medicaid on employment or earnings. Our 95 percent confidence intervals allow us to...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...

Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act explicitly directed more federal aid for K-12 education to poorer areas for the first time in US history, with a goal of promoting regional convergence in school spending. Using newly collected data, we find some evidence that Title I...

Nel complesso, emergono quattro considerazioni in chiave di policy, coerenti con il benchmarking tra Regioni sulla base dei profili di spesa pro-capite per fasce di età (l'altro approccio sviluppato da CERM accanto alla modellizzazione econometrica): 1.) I profondi gap di efficienza e di...

In tutti i Paesi ad economia e welfare sviluppati, la spesa sanitaria è, tra le voci di spesa sociale, quella che nelle prossime decadi farà registrare la crescita più intensa in termini di PIL, e soprattutto più soggetta ad alea per la presenza di fattori - lato offerta e lato domanda - il...

Nel corso dell'ultimo quindicennio, la spesa sanitaria pubblica ha subito una compressione e una...

Questo Quaderno presenta la prima release del modello SaniRegio per l'analisi la spesa sanitaria pubblica nelle Regioni italiane. L'analisi delle differenze regionali evidenzia quanta parte della spesa possa trovare giustificazione, da un lato, nelle caratteristiche demografiche, economiche e...