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The Nexus between Long-term Care Insurance, Formal Care, Informal Care, and Bequests : The Case of Japan
Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Tang, Xueli - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and...
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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456420
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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly : Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464320
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Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs
Coyte, Peter C. - 2001
A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services is proposed. Predictions concerning the effect of increased availability of publicly financed home care services on home care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470195
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Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care
Lakdawalla, Darius - 1999
This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological … demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging many times may lower the demand for market care by increasing the supply … of family-provided care, which substitutes for market care. By providing healthy spouses, aging may increase the supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471827
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Home Care Reimbursement, Long-term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes
McKnight, Robin - 2004
Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. I use a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468279
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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
Do, Young Kyung - 2013
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters-in-law are the prevalent source of caregivers for frail elderly parents and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459520
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An Economic Analysis of Life Care
Feinstein, Jonathan S. - 1992
Life care communities offer long term care to the elderly in the context of a residential community. Residents move into a life care community while still relatively young (though typically past age 65), initially occupying an independent living unit situated in a living complex similar to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474813
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Immigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.
Grabowski, David C.; Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Although debates over immigration remain contentious, one important sector served heavily by immigrants faces a critical labor shortage: nursing homes. We merge a variety of data sets on immigration and nursing homes and use a shift-share instrumental variables analysis to assess the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226157
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Universalizing the Access to Long-term Care : Evidence from Spain
Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last two decades, universalizing subsidies and supports. This paper is part of a global effort to provide a snapshot of the trends in LTC use and access, as well as the financing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436956