Marc A Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5539172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc A Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6104-7967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does Medicaid Cover the Cost of Nursing Home Care? Variation By Ownership Status, Payer-Mix, and Staffing Level
OBJECTIVES: This paper examines whether Medicaid payment rates are aligned with the cost of caring for Medicaid residents and how this relationship varies by facility characteristics. BACKGROUND: Medicaid is the primary payer for most nursing home residents, but limited information exists on the relationship between payment rates and costs of caring for Medicaid beneficiaries. METHODS: Per diem Medicaid payment rates were obtained directly from s…
Distinguishing forms of vulnerability in trust, philosophical perspectives
Promoting Sustainability in Housing with Services
Despite the widely-acknowledged potential of housing with services for improving the lives of low-income older adults, ensuring their financial sustainability has been challenging. This study aimed to address this issue, drawing on 31 key informant interviews and three focus groups with payers, housing providers, and community partners involved in the Boston-area Right Care, Right Place, Right Time Program, which enrolled about 400 older adults. …
A Process Evaluation of Developing Older Adult Research Advisory Boards in Long-term Care Settings
Developing RABs was feasible. Long-term partnerships between research institutions and LTSS providers that serve diverse populations could improve successful dissemination of this model
Improving Care for Older Adults in China
This special issue covers several important topics related to long-term care (LTC) systems and policy development in China. It provides a good contextual background on the development of the LTC system in China as well as the needs and preferences of LTC from family and older adults’ perspectives. In addition, this issue covers the topic of evaluation of a recently developed long-term care nursing insurance and provides an example of family careg…
Trust Does Beget Trustworthiness and Also Begets Trust in Others
Social scientists widely believe that trust begets trustworthiness, meaning that persons reward actions that they view as expressing trust. But evidence from the trust game (also known as the investment game)—introduced by Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe and frequently used to test this relationship—is surprisingly inconclusive. The present article therefore reexamines this hypothesis (Experiment 1), using the trust game but incorporating mediation an…
Generalized Trust in Taiwan and (as Evidence for) Hirschman's doux commerce Thesis
Data from the World Values Survey shows that generalized trust in Mainland China-trust in out-group members-is very low, but generalized trust in Taiwan is much higher. The present paper argues that positive interactions with out-group members in the context of Taiwan's export-oriented economy fostered generalized trust-and so explains this difference. This line of argument provides evidence for Albert O. Hirschman's doux commerce thesis, that ma…
The Implicit Morality of the Market and Joseph Heath’s Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics
Alternative Conceptions of Generalized Trust (and the Foundations of the Social Order)
Genuine, non-calculative trust with calculative antecedents
This short paper defends Oliver Williamson's claim that talk of trust is ‘redundant at best and can be misleading’ when trust is defined as a form of calculated risk (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36, 453–486). And this paper accepts Williamson's claim that ‘Calculative trust is a contradiction in terms’. But the present paper defends a conception of genuine, non-cal…
Private Long-Term Care Insurance
The author's objective is to summarize and synthesize what is known about the private long-term care insurance market and its impact on public expenditures, policyholders, their families, and providers. Primary data were compiled from national studies and published and nonpublished information from the long-term care insurance industry. The study design was the review and analysis of empirical data. Data were collected from in-person, mail, and t…
Understanding the State Variation in Medicare Home Health Care
OBJECTIVES: During the past 7 years there has been a significant increase in the use of the Medicare home health benefit. In this article, the authors document trends in the use of the benefit and develop multivariate models to identify the factors that explain state variation in its use. METHODS: To develop quantitative models, the authors collected state information on all variables for each of 3 years: 1991, 1992, and 1993. The authors chose t…
The Lifetime Risks and Costs of Nursing Home Use Among the Elderly
In this paper, we estimate the risk of an individual of entering a nursing home throughout the aging process. We then estimate the expected lifetime costs of nursing home use both for an individual and for society as a whole. The model is based on double-decrement life-table analysis. Data are taken from a 1977 survey of 4,400 Medicare beneficiaries. At age 65, the upper bound for the lifetime risk of entering a nursing home is 43.1%. The risk of…
Genuine, non-calculative trust with calculative antecedents
This short paper defends Oliver Williamson's claim that talk of trust is ‘redundant at best and can be misleading’ when trust is defined as a form of calculated risk (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36, 453–486). And this paper accepts Williamson's claim that ‘Calculative trust is a contradiction in terms’. But the present paper defends a conception of genuine, non-cal…
Trust Does Beget Trustworthiness and Also Begets Trust in Others
Social scientists widely believe that trust begets trustworthiness, meaning that persons reward actions that they view as expressing trust. But evidence from the trust game (also known as the investment game)—introduced by Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe and frequently used to test this relationship—is surprisingly inconclusive. The present article therefore reexamines this hypothesis (Experiment 1), using the trust game but incorporating mediation an…
Private Long-Term Care Insurance
The author's objective is to summarize and synthesize what is known about the private long-term care insurance market and its impact on public expenditures, policyholders, their families, and providers. Primary data were compiled from national studies and published and nonpublished information from the long-term care insurance industry. The study design was the review and analysis of empirical data. Data were collected from in-person, mail, and t…
The Lifetime Risks and Costs of Nursing Home Use Among the Elderly
In this paper, we estimate the risk of an individual of entering a nursing home throughout the aging process. We then estimate the expected lifetime costs of nursing home use both for an individual and for society as a whole. The model is based on double-decrement life-table analysis. Data are taken from a 1977 survey of 4,400 Medicare beneficiaries. At age 65, the upper bound for the lifetime risk of entering a nursing home is 43.1%. The risk of…
Understanding the State Variation in Medicare Home Health Care
OBJECTIVES: During the past 7 years there has been a significant increase in the use of the Medicare home health benefit. In this article, the authors document trends in the use of the benefit and develop multivariate models to identify the factors that explain state variation in its use. METHODS: To develop quantitative models, the authors collected state information on all variables for each of 3 years: 1991, 1992, and 1993. The authors chose t…
Private Long-Term Care Insurance
The author's objective is to summarize and synthesize what is known about the private long-term care insurance market and its impact on public expenditures, policyholders, their families, and providers. Primary data were compiled from national studies and published and nonpublished information from the long-term care insurance industry. The study design was the review and analysis of empirical data. Data were collected from in-person, mail, and t…
Genuine, non-calculative trust with calculative antecedents
This short paper defends Oliver Williamson's claim that talk of trust is ‘redundant at best and can be misleading’ when trust is defined as a form of calculated risk (Williamson, O. E. [1993]. Calculativeness, trust, and economic organization. The Journal of Law and Economics, 36, 453–486). And this paper accepts Williamson's claim that ‘Calculative trust is a contradiction in terms’. But the present paper defends a conception of genuine, non-cal…
Alternative Conceptions of Generalized Trust (and the Foundations of the Social Order)
The Implicit Morality of the Market and Joseph Heath’s Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics
Generalized Trust in Taiwan and (as Evidence for) Hirschman's doux commerce Thesis
Data from the World Values Survey shows that generalized trust in Mainland China-trust in out-group members-is very low, but generalized trust in Taiwan is much higher. The present paper argues that positive interactions with out-group members in the context of Taiwan's export-oriented economy fostered generalized trust-and so explains this difference. This line of argument provides evidence for Albert O. Hirschman's doux commerce thesis, that ma…
Improving Care for Older Adults in China
This special issue covers several important topics related to long-term care (LTC) systems and policy development in China. It provides a good contextual background on the development of the LTC system in China as well as the needs and preferences of LTC from family and older adults’ perspectives. In addition, this issue covers the topic of evaluation of a recently developed long-term care nursing insurance and provides an example of family careg…
Trust Does Beget Trustworthiness and Also Begets Trust in Others
Social scientists widely believe that trust begets trustworthiness, meaning that persons reward actions that they view as expressing trust. But evidence from the trust game (also known as the investment game)—introduced by Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe and frequently used to test this relationship—is surprisingly inconclusive. The present article therefore reexamines this hypothesis (Experiment 1), using the trust game but incorporating mediation an…
A Process Evaluation of Developing Older Adult Research Advisory Boards in Long-term Care Settings
Developing RABs was feasible. Long-term partnerships between research institutions and LTSS providers that serve diverse populations could improve successful dissemination of this model
Promoting Sustainability in Housing with Services
Despite the widely-acknowledged potential of housing with services for improving the lives of low-income older adults, ensuring their financial sustainability has been challenging. This study aimed to address this issue, drawing on 31 key informant interviews and three focus groups with payers, housing providers, and community partners involved in the Boston-area Right Care, Right Place, Right Time Program, which enrolled about 400 older adults. …
Distinguishing forms of vulnerability in trust, philosophical perspectives
Does Medicaid Cover the Cost of Nursing Home Care? Variation By Ownership Status, Payer-Mix, and Staffing Level
OBJECTIVES: This paper examines whether Medicaid payment rates are aligned with the cost of caring for Medicaid residents and how this relationship varies by facility characteristics. BACKGROUND: Medicaid is the primary payer for most nursing home residents, but limited information exists on the relationship between payment rates and costs of caring for Medicaid beneficiaries. METHODS: Per diem Medicaid payment rates were obtained directly from s…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works)