US Government Accountability Office Report: “Health Care Fraud: Types of Providers Involved in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program Cases” (GAO-12-820, September 2012, .pdf format, 51p.).
October 11, 2012
CAAR – Kaiser Family Foundation Report, Brief, Infographic – October 11, 2012
A. “Medicare Part D: A First Look at Part D Plan Offerings in 2013,” by Jack Hoadley, Juliette Cubanski, Elizabeth Hargrave, Laura Summer, and Jennifer Huang (October 2012, .pdf format, 15p.).
B. “Seniors’ Knowledge and Experience With Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period and Choosing a Plan: Key Findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation 2012 National Survey of Seniors,” (October 2012, .pdf format, 9p.).
C. “The Role of the Elderly and Disabled in Medicaid Spending” (October 2012).
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economics Research Working Paper – October 11, 2012
“Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers,” by Kathleen McGarry (w18446, October 2012, .pdf format, 25p.).
Abstract:
Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, empirical tests of the model have consistently yielded negative results. However, an important limitation in these sorts of studies and of our understanding of transfers in general has stemmed our inability to observe transfers over time. Estimates of patterns in a single cross section necessarily miss important aspects of behavior. In this paper I expand on the static altruistic model and posit a dynamic model in which parents use current observations on the incomes of their children to update their expectations regarding future incomes and desired future transfers. I then draw on data spanning a 17 year period to examine the dynamic aspects of transfer behavior. I find substantial change across periods in recipiency, large differences across children within the family, and a strong negative correlation between inter vivos transfers and the transitory incomes of the recipients. This evidence suggests that dynamic models can provide insights into transfer behavior that are impossible to obtain in a static context.
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CAAR – Pensions Institute (Cass Business School, City University of London) [UK] Report – October 11, 2012
“Caveat Venditor: The brave new world of auto-enrolment should be governed by the principle of seller not buyer beware,” by Debbie Harrison, David Blake, and Kevin Dowd (October 2012, .pdf format, 38p.).
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CAAR – New England Journal of Medicine Article Abstract – October 11, 2012
“Effect of Nonpayment for Preventable Infections in U.S. Hospitals,” by Grace M. Lee, Ken Kleinman, Stephen B. Soumerai, Alison Tse, David Cole, Scott K. Fridkin, Teresa Horan, Richard Platt, Charlene Gay, William Kassler, Donald A. Goldmann, John Jernigan, and Ashish K. Jha (Vol. 367, No. 15, October 11, 2012, p. 1428-1437).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1202419?query=TOC#t=abstract
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – October 11, 2012
A. “Potential Drug-Drug Interactions in Prescriptions to Patients over 45 Years of Age in Primary Care, Southern Brazil,” by Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira, Marcia Terezinha Lonardoni Crozatti, Carlos Aparecido dos Santos, and Nicolina Silvana Romano-Lieber (PLoS ONE 7(10): e47062. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047062, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 6p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047062
B. “MRI-Based Volumetry Correlates of Autobiographical Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Nathalie Philippi, Vincent Noblet, Anne Botzung, Olivier Despres, Felix Renard, Giorgos Sfikas, Benjamin Cretin, Stephane Kremer, Lilianne Manning, and Frederic Blanc (PLoS ONE 7(10): e46200. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046200, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 11p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046200
C. “Classification of Structural MRI Images in Alzheimer’s Disease from the Perspective of Ill-Posed Problems,” by Ramon Casanova, Fang-Chi Hsu, and Mark A. Espeland, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (PLoS ONE 7(10): e44877. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044877, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044877
D. “Effects of a Copper-Deficient Diet on the Biochemistry, Neural Morphology and Behavior of Aged Mice,” by Silvia Bolognin, Federica Pasqualetto, Carla Mucignat-Caretta, Janez Scancar, Radmila Milacic, Pamela Zambenedetti, Bruno Cozzi, and Paolo Zatta (PLoS ONE 7(10): e47063. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047063, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047063
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CAAR – International Longevity Centre [UK] Report – October 11, 2012
“The Impact of Demographic Change on Public Services,” (October 2012, .pdf format, 13p.).
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CAAR – National Academy of Social Insurance Brief – October 11, 2012
“Is Medicare Solvent and Sustainable?” by Lee Goldberg and Sabiha Zainulbhai (No. 5, October 2012, .pdf format, 3p.).
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CAAR – Human Mortality Database – October 11, 2012
- Data for Latvia were revised and updated through 2010. (Oct. 9, 2012).
www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/DataAvailability.php
- Data access.
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CAAR – Journal Table of Contents – October 11, 2012
Ageing and Society (Vol. 32, No. 8, November 2012).
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=ASO&volumeId=32&issueId=08&iid=8706869
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