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Medicaid Spending on Home- and Community-Based Services and the Economic Status of Home Care Workers
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Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid
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Immigration Enforcement, the Home Care Workforce, and Access to Long-Term Care: Evidence from Secure Communities Permalink
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Most Americans will need long-term care at some point in their lifetimes, with many relying on home care workers, like home health and personal care aides, to provide this care. Since nearly one-third of home care workers are immigrants, it is critical to understand how escalating US immigration enforcement impacts the supply of home care. Relying on economic theory, we first propose a conceptual model of the impact of immigration enforcement on the home care market. Then, we use data from the American Community Survey and the Health & Retirement Study to test the model's predictions. We exploit temporal and geographic variation in the rollout of a federal enforcement policy, Secure Communities, between 2008-2013, estimating difference-in-differences and event study models with time and location fixed effects to isolate the effect of the policy. We find that Secure Communities reduces the overall size of the home care workforce by 7.5%, with 70% of this effect driven by a reduction in the number of immigrant workers. Next, we test for negative externalities of this workforce reduction by examining receipt of home-based care among older adults with care needs. Overall, we find that older adults needing assistance are 2.9 percentage points less likely to receive any help at home, a 5% relative reduction. However, consistent with our model’s predictions, these effects are concentrated among older adults with Medicaid coverage, who are 10.5% less likely to receive any help, and 23.2% less likely to receive formal (i.e., non-family) home care, following the introduction of Secure Communities.
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Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence From Medicaid
Published in Journal of Health Economics, 2024
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Stalling of Fertility Transitions and Socioeconomic Change in the Developing World: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys
Published in Ralentissements, Résistances et Ruptures Dans Les Transitions Démographiques, 2013
Growth in the Concurrent Use of Antipsychotics with Other Psychotropic Medications in Medicaid-Enrolled Children
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2014
Second-Generation Antipsychotic Use Among Stimulant-Using Children, by Organization of Medicaid Mental Health
Published in Psychiatric Services, 2014
Risk for Incident Diabetes Mellitus Following Initiation of Second-Generation Antipsychotics Among Medicaid-Enrolled Youths
Published in JAMA Pediatrics, 2015
Quality of Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Children in Low-Income Families
Published in JAMA Pediatrics, 2016
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and Antidepressant Use by Patients With Depression
Published in Psychiatric Services, 2017
The Home Care Workforce Has Not Kept Pace With Growth In Home And Community-Based Services
Published in Health Affairs, 2023
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Concert Calendars
Published on GitHub, 2022
US News Hospital Rankings
Published on GitHub, 2023
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PhD Core Course in Health Policy
PhD Program Course, Harvard University, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018
Why is There No Cure for Health Care?
Undergraduate Course, Harvard University, Fall 2018