13:10 - 14:50
P3-S61
Room: 0A.01
Chair/s:
Elisa Wirsching
Discussant/s:
Christopher Witko
Discrimination and cream‐skimming in nursing home services? A field experiment
P3-S61-3
Presented by: Joaquin Rozas
Ixchel Perez-Duran 1Joaquin Rozas 2
1 Autonomous University of Barcelona
2 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
This study seeks to analyze inequalities in access to nursing home services. Building upon previous experimental studies investigating inequalities in nursing home services through digital interactions between various types of providers and relatives of nursing home residents (specifically, via email requests for information), we know that specific types of providers (i.e. private providers) are more likely to reproduce inequalities in the access of these services (Jilke et al., 2018). In studies by Jilke et al. (2018), and Van Dooren and Jilke (2022) the variable against which individuals tend to exert bias or discrimination is race. In our study, we consider both the level of dependency of potential residents and their socioeconomic status as two variables potentially influencing cream-skimming and discrimination in service access. Hence, our research questions are the following: (i) To what extent do providers of the services provide equal access to the services to potential beneficiaries?; and ii) Do nursing homes systematically discriminate on the basis of dependency status and social class? To test the extent to which nursing homes actually have a bias in how they facilitate access to potential beneficiaries we will conduct a field experiment in which family members of potential beneficiaries seek out information from a nursing home and its services
Keywords: inequalities, discrimination, elder-care services, field experiment

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