Edward Norton

Director

Edward Norton is a Professor of Health Policy and Administration at UNC-CH and Director of the DEAR program. Dr. Norton has led several studies of the economics of long-term care and aging. He has studied how nursing home reimbursement affects quality and cost of care, the extent of adverse selection and the bequest motive in the private long-term care insurance market, and the behavioral effect of Medicaid long-term care insurance on residents who enter a nursing home as private payers. A policy paper explores the options for public long-term care insurance and makes recommendations for eligibility, benefits, financing, and reimbursement. These studies have been published in Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Review of Income and Wealth, and Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Norton wrote the chapter on long-term care for the Handbook of Health Economics. He has been PI on a grants funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to study the economics of spend-down to Medicaid, and a grant funded by NIA to study informal care for the elderly.