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PLoS ONERapid population aging has been placing heavy tolls on Chinese family caregivers. Previous empirical evidence from multiple countries have shown that establishing national long-term care insurance was effective in reducing family care burdens.
Lianjie Wang, Jing Liu
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Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey [PDF]
This paper provides empirical evidence of Medicaid crowd out of demand for private long-term care insurance. Using data on the near- and young-elderly in the Health and Retirement Survey, our central estimate suggests that a $10,000 decrease in the level
Amy Finkelstein +2 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Long-term health care: is social insurance desirable? [PDF]
A look at why the private insurance market has failed to cover long-term care risks adequately, and an evaluation of several proposals for funding such care through social insurance.Medical ...
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Lydia K. Leovic
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The German Social Long-Term Care Insurance – Structure and Reform Options [PDF]
, 2006 In recent years some drawbacks of the social long-term care insurance structure in Germany turned out to be in need of reform.: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover.
Arntz, Melanie +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Long-term care insurance facilities and interregional migration of the elderly in Japan [PDF]
, 2009 Using municipality-level data of Japan, this paper empirically examines how the capacity of long-term care insurance facilities impacts interregional migration of the elderly. We construct net-migration data of the elderly population in each municipality
Kawase, Akihiro, Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from long-term care insurance [PDF]
We examine whether unregulated, private insurance markets efficiently provide insurance against reclassification risk (the risk of becoming a bad risk and facing higher premiums).
Amir Sufi +2 more
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Will Health Care Costs Bankrupt Aging Boomers? [PDF]
, 2010 Using the Urban Institute's dynamic microsimulation model, projects 2010-40 income, out-of-pocket medical expenses, and insurance premiums for Americans age 65 and older, excluding long-term care costs, assuming no changes in healthcare costs or ...
Corina Mommaerts, Richard W. Johnson
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