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Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents
Pezzin, Liliana E. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital status, parental marital history, whether the index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777879
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The wage elasticity of informal care supply : evidence from the health and retirement study
Nizalova, Olena - 2010
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008848
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Long-term care partnership effects on Medicaid and private insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2021
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648168
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Meet the parents? : the causal effect of family size on the geographic distance between adult children and older parents
Holmlund, Helena; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2009
An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896382
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Informal and formal care in Europe
Viitanen, Tarja K. (contributor) - 2007
"Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476494
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The effects of cooperation : a structural model of siblings' caregiving interactions
Knoef, Marike; Kooreman, Peter - 2011
siblings, their choices also play a role in the caregiving decision. A central question is whether siblings make cooperative or … noncooperative decisions. The second part of this paper aims to establish whether interactions between siblings are cooperative or … noncooperative, by comparing predicted cooperative and noncooperative outcomes with observed outcomes. We use the structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307469
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Use of time and value of unpaid family care work : a comparison between Italy and Poland
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2011
This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy and Poland. Using the Italian and Polish time use surveys, both the opportunity cost and the market replacement approaches are employed to separately estimate the value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308818
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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household savings behaviour
Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2015
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308491
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Academic performance and type of early childhood care
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Simonsen, Marianne - 2015
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children, enrolled in either center based day care or family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528778
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Migration in Italy is backing the old age welfare
Del Boca, Daniela; Venturini, Alessandra - 2014
Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an aging society. We focus on the demand of family-care workers by using the last five years of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382807