Tag: long-term care
The brief’s key findings are: The U.S. fertility rate has fallen sharply since the Great Recession. The question is whether it’s a lingering effect of the downturn or a more permanent drop. A review of different measures of fertility suggests a mixed picture. But a state-level analysis shows that while fertility typically rises in expansions, in t…
Abstract We use two historical data sources – the Health and Retirement Study and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Study – to consider the patterns in older Americans’ severe disability and their use of long-term services and supports (LTSS) by age and socioeconomic status. We then use a dynamic microsimulation model to project how the effects…
