Australian parliaments and courts have recognised that aged care facilities with closed units can be places of (civil) detention where patients/consumers are deprived of their liberty. Current monitoring of these places of detention is substandard and inadequate, as evidenced by the multiple...

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...