Fiscal Studies
Call for papers: Public Financing of Long Term Care
Public Financing of Long-Term Care
This issue will be edited by Joan Costa-Font (London School of
Economics), Eric French (UCL), Edward Norton (University of Michigan)
and Luigi Siciliani (University of York)
Motivation
Long-term care programmes have experienced an expansion of
government intervention. Population ageing and social change within
families (making informal care-giving costly) put significant pressures on
government expenditures. A special issue would bring together ideas and
empirical evidence to learn more about how to tackle the increasing
demand for long-term care programmes; to measure costs and benefits of
different interventions; and to assess ahead of time whether the costs are
manageable and under control. We expect to attract a set of papers that
would shed some light on how to respond to questions of funding,
sustainability, quality, equity and choice.
Fiscal Studies
Editors
Claire Crawford
Institute for Fiscal Studies
claire_c@ifs.org.uk
Thomas Crossley
University of Cambridge
tfc22@cam.ac.uk
Eric French
University College London
eric.french.econ@gmail.com
Fiscal Studies is an applied public economics journal that primarily
publishes policy-relevant applied micro papers. All contributions will
have to provide evidence of empirical relevance and propose clear policy
implications. We welcome contributions that draw from evidence from
different countries and relate to reforms in the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands and
other countries with a significant public component.
Keywords
a) LTC insurance: public-private, voluntary-mandatory b)
Individuals/patients’ funding options for institutionalised care (care
homes/nursing homes) c) Funding of home care; Informal care vs formal
care d) Sustainability of LTC expenditure e) Baumol’s disease f)
Regulatory/policy interventions to improve quality and contain
expenditure and costs of providers of LTC services g) Coordination
between health and LTC services
Deadline for paper submission
All submissions to the workshop by 1 June 2015 to
fiscalstudiesltc@gmail.com
Later submission only for the special issue will be considered before 1
September 2015
Seminar features
It will be a one-day seminar at the LSE and all authors will cover their own
expenses (coffee and lunch will be provided).
Time line
Call for papers
Submission deadline
Decisions
Workshop in London
Submission to the journal
Paper refereeing
Paper in final format
Publication
1 February2015
1 June 2015
15 June 2015
3 August 2015 at the LSE (venue TBC)
1 October 2015
15 October 2015
15 October 2016
15 March 2017 (TBC)
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