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adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
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examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions and mobility of middle-aged children. Our main …
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We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
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We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...
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by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be provided either informally by children, or … is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general … formal home and institutional care. Except when children and parents have equal bargaining weights these subsidies are gender …
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disadvantage (socio-economic position) and contextual disadvantage (environmental context in which children grow up). The objective … neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling …
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Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....
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This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
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a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …
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binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to … instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them …
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