Finds that many in the early treatment group cohort were in relatively poor health and had high levels of functional impairment. Still, one-third lived alone, and one-quarter had no unpaid informal caregivers. Most used the monthly cash allowance to hire a caregiver on their own; the majority of...

Describes two applications of a method for reweighting a survey or administrative records database to borrow strength and improve the precision of state estimates. The first is estimating the numbers and characteristics of children without health insurance. The second is microsimulation of...

Discusses challenges in severing welfare and Medicaid, the complexity of Medicaid rules, and pressing administrative issues for Medicaid. Also recommends potential solutions, including new roles for welfare workers, an easier eligibility process, and rethinking the mission of Medicaid programs.

This new two-year study of low-income New York City students in grades 3 to 6 who received vouchers to attend private schools shows no significant difference in test scores between the scholarship group and the control group. It also finds that students performed about the same on standardized...

Provides a timely profile of how managed care plans—especially those at financial risk—structure their networks and pay providers, finding that contractual arrangements between plans and providers are complex and diverse across and within networks. Furthermore, HMO contracts with...

Finds that the individual participation rate decreased 5 percentage points from 1997 to 1998, to 59 percent, the largest one-year drop since rates began to decline in the mid-1990s. Since 1994, the participation rate has dropped over 11 percentage points, indicating that fewer eligible...