Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185579 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2018-060/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Aging-in-place policies substitute home care for nursing home admissions (NHA). They appear to be a win-win by keeping public spending in check and being in line with personal preferences, but have hitherto not been evaluated. We study the impact of NHA eligibility using Dutch administrative data and exploiting variation between randomly assigned assessors in their tendency to grant admission. The impact on mortality is zero, but with considerable effect heterogeneity. Moreover, aging-in-place policies come at the cost of increased curative care, especially hospital admissions, and do not reduce total healthcare spending, suggesting they may not be a win-win after all.
Subjects: 
long-term care
policy evaluation
instrumental variables
JEL: 
C26
I10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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