Nursing Home Quality as a Public Good / David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph J. Angelelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabowski, David C.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gruber, Jonathan.

Angelelli, Joseph J. (Joseph James)

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12361.

NBER working paper series no. w12361

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of nursing homes from seven states, we exploit both within-facility and within-patient variation in payer source and quality to examine this issue. We also test the robustness of these results across states with different Medicaid and private-pay rate differentials. Across our various identification strategies, the results generally support the idea that quality is a public good within nursing homes. That is, within a common nursing home, there is very little evidence to suggest that Medicaid-funded residents receive consistently lower quality care relative to their private-paying counterparts.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2006.