Impacts of informal caregiving on caregiver employment, health, and family

JM Bauer, A Sousa-Poza - Journal of population Ageing, 2015‏ - Springer
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever
more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the …

Long-term care

EC Norton - Handbook of health economics, 2000‏ - Elsevier
This chapter summarizes recent theoretical and empirical economic research on long-term
care. Long-term care differs from acute medical care in four fundamental ways. Long-term …

Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: evidence from China

X Lei, C Bai, J Hong, H Liu - Social Science & Medicine, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of China's public long-term care insurance (LTCI) pilots on
the well-being of older adults and their families. Using panel data from the Chinese …

Long-term care insurance and the family

C Mommaerts - Journal of Political Economy, 2025‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper examines whether informal care by family members influences the demand for
long-term care insurance. Motivated by evidence that the availability of informal caregivers …

Informal care and health care use of older adults

CH Van Houtven, EC Norton - Journal of health economics, 2004‏ - Elsevier
Informal care by adult children is a common form of long-term care for older adults and can
reduce medical expenditures if it substitutes for formal care. We address how informal care …

Does informal care from children to their elderly parents substitute for formal care in Europe?

E Bonsang - Journal of health economics, 2009‏ - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the impact of informal care by adult children on the use of long-term
care among the elderly in Europe and the effect of the level of the parent's disability on this …

Determinants of long-term care spending: age, time to death or disability?

C De Meijer, M Koopmanschap, TB d'Uva… - Journal of health …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In view of population aging, better understanding of what drives long-term care expenditure
(LTCE) is warranted. Time-to-death (TTD) has commonly been used to project LTCE …

Altruism, exchange or indirect reciprocity: what do the data on family transfers show?

L Arrondel, A Masson - Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Most models of family transfers consider only two generations and focus on two motives:
altruism and exchange. They also assume perfect substitution between inter vivos financial …

Household responses to public home care programs

M Stabile, A Laporte, PC Coyte - Journal of health economics, 2006‏ - Elsevier
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 are proposed …

Early life influences on cognitive impairment among oldest old Chinese

Z Zhang, D Gu, MD Hayward - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
Objectives. This article examines the effects of early life socioeconomic conditions on the
risk of cognitive impairment among oldest old persons in China. We also examine whether …