Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured … their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … affected by health behavior and past illness. We suggest a new approach to measuring inequality: the use of quality …

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured … their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … affected by health behavior and past illness. We suggest a new approach to measuring inequality: the use of quality …

-term care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance expansions can stimulate local economies. We …

How does the generosity of social insurance coverage affect demand for healthcare and health outcomes of elderly people …? This paper examines the effects of insurance coverage on long-term care (LTC) utilization and its health consequences using … novel administrative data of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in Japan. In LTCI, a recipient's health score …

integrates health in the utility function and utilizes recent estimates on the effects of health on the marginal utility of …

We analyze newly available data from the Health and Retirement Study on senior citizens' take-up of Medicare Part D and …

to examine the health capacity to work at aged 50 and above. This study finds that, first, the health status of the … participation rate has not seen an equivalent increase alongside the improvement in health. Second, the gap in labor force …