title: Nursing Home Quality as a Common Good.
abstract: A long-standing assumption among economists is that nursing home quality is common across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a shared 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-person 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 various identification strategies, our results are consistent with the assumption of common quality across Medicaid and private-paying patients within facilities.
authors.affiliation: Harvard University.
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authors.lastname: Grabowski
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.forename: Joseph J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Angelelli
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