Submissions are invited for this issue of Fiscal Studies will be edited by Joan Costa-Font (London School of Economics), Eric French (UCL), Edward Norton (University of Michighan) and Luigi Siciliani (University of York). A workshop will be held before publication to discuss the papers.
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 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.
Deadline for paper submission
All submissions to the workshop by 1 June 2015 to @email
Later submission only for the special issue will be considered before 1 September 2015
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