The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately … number of important characteristics of the elderly population in and outside nursing homes, we conjecture that the difference …

half were covered by Medicaid. Over the past decade, use of professional home-health care has increased steadily, as has …

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

Physicians and pharmacists in Taiwan both prescribed and dispensed drugs; many elderly people considered the two types … of providers to some extent substitutable. This paper studies effects of two policies in the 1990s on elderly people … that by providing an economic incentive to the previously uninsured elderly, NHI largely raised their probability of …

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 … or having coverage through Medicare alone. Our estimates indicate that social networks are an important determinant of …