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How do employment, tasks, and productivity change with robot adoption? Unlike manufacturing, little is known about these issues in the service sector, where robot adoption is expanding. As a first step towards filling this gap, we study Japanese nursing homes using original facility-level panel...
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This paper tests whether mergers between nursing home chains and independent facilities affect quality of care using facility-level data from 1999-2019. Staggered difference-in-differences estimates suggest that acquired facilities experience a 5% reduction in health deficiency citations 2 years...
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played by informal care (IC), consumption sharing within households, and Medicaid in insuring this risk. We develop a life … reduces the probability of means-tested Medicaid LTC …
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This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies on informal and formal care for middle-aged and older adults with disabilities in the U.S., and how the heterogeneous benefits accrue to different families. We use data from the 1998-2018 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and...
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and financing of long-term care in the U.S. We show that the resources of most elderly in the U.S. are insufficient to … time, informal care plays a critical role, with the elderly at every age and every disability level receiving informal care …
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socioeconomic situation of the elderly in Denmark, focusing on the health status and financial situation of the elderly, and the … elderly is in good health, but that those in the older age group, 85+, face considerably more functional limitations in daily … living. One in three of the elderly receives some form of long-term care, and more than half the 85+ group. The paper further …
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population of elderly individuals whose poor health and lack of social supports were expected to lead to heavy use of long … nursing home admissions. Using longitudinal data on the high-risk elderly enrollees of the National Long-Term Care …
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The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … institutionalization among the elderly by 1.5 and 3.8 percentage points for those aged 65+ and 80+, a 26-29 percent effect relative to the …
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Medicare has increased the use of performance pay incentives for hospitals, with the goal of increasing care …
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Children with a disability are 3.5 times more likely to be maltreated. Federal Early Intervention (EI) serves 426,000 children 0-3 with a disability, 3.7% of the entire population under three. EI's objective is to support families in caring for their children's special needs. Compared to...
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