Costa-Font, Joan 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919, Frank, Richard and Swartz, Katherine
(2017)
Access to long-term care after a wealth shock: evidence from the housing bubble and burst.
NBER Working Paper (23781).
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA.
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Abstract
Home equity is the primary self-funding mechanism for long term services and supports (LTSS). Using data from the relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine the effect of wealth on use of home health, unpaid help and nursing home care by older adults. We find a significant increase in the use of paid home health care and unpaid informal care but no effect on nursing home care access. We conduct a placebo test on individuals who do not own property; their use of LTSS was not affected by the housing wealth changes. The findings suggest that a wealth shock exerts a positive and significant effect on the uptake of home health and some effect on unpaid care but no significant effect on nursing home care.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.nber.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors |
| Divisions: | LSE Health |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2017 11:25 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 04:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84212 |
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