David Bell

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Name	David Bell
Affiliation / organisation	Professor of Economics, University of Stirling/Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh/Visiting Professor University of Glasgow
Professional role	Research
Area of expertise	Care workforce Long-Term Care data and information systems Long-term care financing Long-Term Care policy Long-term Care systems Regulation and governance of long-term care Unpaid care
Associated countries	Scotland (UK) United Kingdom
Short bio	David Bell is a professor of economics with a long-running interest in long-term care. He has advised both the UK and Scottish government in relation to the design and financing of long-term care policy. He is also a principal investigator on HAGIS (Healthy AGeing In Scotland), which is seeking to become part of the worldwide network of longitudinal studies of ageing, which centre on the Health and Retirement Study in the US.
Research interests	economics of long-term care; labour economics; fiscal federalism; macroeconomics
Research projects on COVID and Long-Term Care	Bell, D., Henderson, D. and Lemmon, E., 2020. Deaths in Scottish care homes and COVID-19. https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/31237#.Yakz0tDP2Uk HAGIS – COVID Impact and Recovery Study https //www.hagis.scot/