The relationship between financial performance and quality of care in nursing homes is not well defined and prior work has been mixed. The recent focus on improving the quality of nursing homes through market-based incentives such as public reporting may have changed this relationship, as public...

Limited evidence exists on whether expanding home care saves money overall or how much institutional long‐term care can be reduced. This paper estimates the causal effect of Medicaid‐financed home care services on the costs and utilization of institutional long‐term care using Medicaid...

While it has long been assumed that family structure and potential sources of informal care play a large role in the purchase decisions for long‐term care insurance (LTCI), current empirical evidence is inconclusive. Our study examines the relationship between family structure and LTCI...

Using data from a survey of 800 managers in 12 industries, we find empirical support for the hypothesis that the cost associated with missed work varies across jobs according to the ease with which a manager can find a perfect replacement for the absent worker, the extent to which the worker...

We evaluated three questions that commonly arise when unit costing exercises for multinational trials are conducted: (1) In countries where investigators plan to collect hospital unit cost estimates for a selected set of diagnoses, how should one estimate unit costs for the remaining diagnoses...

SUMMARY Market‐based solutions are often proposed to improve health care quality; yet evidence on the role of competition in quality in non‐hospital settings is sparse. We examine the relationship between competition and quality in home health care. This market is different from other...