Nursing homes certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide care and receive public reimbursement through Medicare and Medicaid are subject to mandatory annual inspections.

Medicaid bears over 60 percent of the costs of this assistance, paying $255 billion in 2022 for long-term services and supports (LTSS). In response to these costs, some state Medicaid programs have ...

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today and goes back decades for rich countries. Birthrates have been below replacement in the U.S. and Europe since the mid-1970s. Completed cohort ...

We build a model that combines (i) heterogeneous households with incomplete markets, and (ii) state-dependent pricing with strategic complementarities by firms, to analyze the effects of large ...

We uncover a new mechanism that links growth and a decline in the energy intensity of production, observed globally since 1990. Using microdata from India and a causal research design, we demonstrate ...

There is a long-running debate over using standardized test scores to inform college and graduate admissions decisions, with some arguing that test scores are an important signal of academic strength ...

Recently the global economy has experienced several major shocks yet EMEs have been remarkably resilient. Some of this improved performance can be attributed to prudent policies and stronger economic ...

This paper shows that the currency in which traded goods are invoiced has a first-order implication for the short-run impact of tariffs on the economy. If prices are set in terms of producer’s ...

The growing prevalence of cognitive impairment (CI) is one of the main drivers of age-related demand for health and long-term care (LTC). In Spain, CI is estimated to affect 18.5% of Spaniards over 65 ...

We examine pandemic related racial and ethnic disparities in test scores, absenteeism, and disciplinary incidents for K-12 students in the State of Connecticut through the 2024-25 school year. Notably ...

Environmental decisions often impact health, yet morbidity valuation remains challenging, with current approaches like cost-of-illness (COI) measures and Quality-Adjusted Life Years failing to reflect ...

We find the chatbot messaging increased students’ final grades and engagement with academic supports, such as tutoring. Treatment effects were generally consistent across student demographics, with ...