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Informal, formal, or both? Assessing the drivers of home care utilization in Austria using a simultaneous decision framework
Firgo, Matthias; Nowotny, Klaus; Braun, Alexander - 2017
for Austria. Second, it extends the scarce literature explicitly focusing on the combined use of informal and formal care … formal and informal home care in Austria, with the health status and functional limitations as the main determinants of … interdependencies in these types of long-term care. Our results provide strong evidence for a taskspecific and complementary relation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853236
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Lin, Zhuoer; Yin, Xuecheng; Levy, Becca R.; Yuan, Yue; … - 2024
Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential proximity and spousal presence with dementia risk in cognitively impaired older adults. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530471
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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Lin, Zhuoer; Yin, Xuecheng; Levy, Becca R.; Yuan, Yue; … - 2024
Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential proximity and spousal presence with dementia risk in cognitively impaired older adults. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567535
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012
We provide new evidence on the causal mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208618
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Who cares? Evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia
Mozhaeva, Irina - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 136-154
formal home care services and identify the socio-economic factors that drive or hinder their use among the Estonian elderly …. The relationship between informal and formal home care utilization is estimated applying the new approach to instrumental … informal care provided by household members, other relatives and non-relatives because the same socio-economic factors might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470733
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Wenn Migranten alt werden – Das Altenpflegesystem zwischen Versorgungslücken und Entwicklungspotenzialen
Marquardt, Gesine; Delkic, Elma; Motzek, Tom - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 23 (2016) 1, pp. 26-32
Der Zuzug von Migranten nach Deutschland verlangsamt zwar die Bevölkerungsalterung, aber gleichzeitig wächst die Bevölkerungsgruppe der Migranten, die derzeit und in naher Zukunft in das Rentenalter eintritt. Um Aussagen über die zukünftig benötigten Versorgungsstrukturen treffen zu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733473
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The economics of grief
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321141
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The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Exploring the role of skills and health using data on adoptees and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282495
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The economics of grief
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289860