“Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy,” (March 2012, .pdf format, 415p.).
March 19, 2012
CAAR – US Government Accountability Office Report – March 19, 2012
“Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Recent Developments Highlight Challenges of Hedge Fund and Private Equity Investing,” (GAO-12-324, February 2012, .pdf format, 48p.).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – March 19, 2012
“Mechanisms of Adaptation from a Multiple to a Single Step Recovery Strategy following Repeated Exposure to Forward Loss of Balance in Older Adults,” by Christopher P. Carty, Neil J. Cronin, Glen A. Lichtwark, Peter M. Mills, and Rod S. Barrett (PLoS ONE 7(3): e33591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033591, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 6p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033591
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CAAR – Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief – March 19, 2012
“Paying More for Primary Care: Can It Help Bend the Medicare Cost Curve?” by James D. Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate Stewart, and Deborah Chollet (March 2012, .pdf format, 14p.).
www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2012/Mar/Paying-More-for-Primary-Care.aspx
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities – March 19, 2012
“Studies in Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers Discovery (U01),” (RFA-NS-12-011, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, deadline for applications May 23, 2012).
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CAAR – US Government Accountability Office Report – March 19, 2012
“Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Recent Developments Highlight Challenges of Hedge Fund and Private Equity Investing” (GAO-12-324, February 2012, HTML and .pdf format, 43p.).
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CAAR – Vienna Institute of Demography Call for Papers – March 19, 2012
“Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity,” (Nov. 21-23, 2012, Vienna Austria). The deadline for paper submission is June 30, 2012.
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CAAR – National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities Reports – March 19, 2012
A. “Consumer Directed Personal Care Services,” (March 2012, .pdf format, 5p.).
www.nasuad.org/documentation/nasuad_materials/LTSS%20-%20Consumer%20Directed%20-3-16-2012.pdf
B. “Assessments, Reassessments and Care Plans,” (March 2012, .pdf format, 12p.).
C. “Case Management,” (March 2012, .pdf format, 5p.).
www.nasuad.org/documentation/nasuad_materials/LTSS%20-%20Case%20Mgt%20-%203-16-2012.pdf
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CAAR – European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes/Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations (ENEPRI/ANCIEN) Working Paper – March 19, 2012
“Long-Term Care Quality Assurance Policies in European Countries,” by Roberto Dandi, Georgia Casanova, Roberto Lillini, Massimo Volpe, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Maria Avolio, and Ferruccio Pelone (Work Package 5 via Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium), March 2012, .pdf format, 85p.). Links to an abstract and full text are available at:
www.ceps.eu/book/long-term-care-quality-assurance-policies-european-union
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CAAR – University of Wisconsin Press Book – March 19, 2012
Condos in the Woods: The Growth of Seasonal and Retirement Homes in Northern Wisconsin, by Rebecca L. Schewe, Donald R. Field, Deborah J. Frosch, Gregory Clendenning, and Dana Jensen (2012, 192p., ISBN (paper): 978-0-299-28534-0; ISBN (ebook): 978-0-299-28533-3). For more information see:
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CAAR – Human Mortality Database – March 19, 2012
Note: HMD requires free registration before providing data. The following updates have been added to the database:
- Data for Australia were revised and updated through 2009 (Mar. 19, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
Data access:
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – March 19, 2012
“Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform,” by Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda E. Kowalski (w17933, March 2012, .pdf format, 59p.).
Abstract:
We model the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national “mandate-based” health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage. Using our model, we characterize the compensating differential for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) — the causal change in wages associated with gaining ESHI. We also characterize the welfare impact of the labor market distortion induced by health reform. We show that the welfare impact depends on a small number of “sufficient statistics” that can be recovered from labor market outcomes. Relying on the reform implemented in Massachusetts in 2006, we estimate the empirical analog of our model. We find that jobs with ESHI pay wages that are lower by an average of $6,058 annually, indicating that the compensating differential for ESHI is only slightly smaller in magnitude than the average cost of ESHI to employers. Because the newly-insured in Massachusetts valued ESHI, they were willing to accept lower wages, and the deadweight loss of mandate-based health reform was less than 5% of what it would have been if the government had instead provided health insurance by levying a tax on wages.
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