GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar

Date: 19 November 2024

Time: 1 to 2 pm GMT

Local public provision of social assistance to older individuals can improve well-being and prevent the use of expensive care but needs to be targeted well. This study evaluates a Dutch policy reform that restricted the ability of municipalities to target social assistance using a difference-in-difference approach.

 

The webinar covers:

• Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and the Quasi-Experimental Methods and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
  Presentation: Missing the mark: the effects of abolishing co-payments for social assistance in the Netherlands by Bram Wouterse, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  Q&A led by Bo Hu, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK.