Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64? The health impact of caregiving to one's spouse

Autor: P. L. de Zwart, E. van Doorslaer, Pieter Bakx
Přispěvatelé: Health Economics (HE), Applied Economics
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
Health Status
WAGE
Care provision
0302 clinical medicine
Italian Econometrics Workshop Supplement. Guest Editors: Francesco Moscone
Luigi Siciliani
Giorgio Vittadini
PARENTS
Health care
Economics
Supplement Paper
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
media_common
Aged
80 and over
Cost–benefit analysis
propensity score matching
I11
Depression
Health Policy
05 social sciences
INFORMAL CARE PROVISION
Health Services
Middle Aged
3. Good health
informal care
PROPENSITY SCORE
Caregivers
Spouse
Supplement Papers
8. Economic growth
long-term care
Female
C21
EUROPE
media_common.quotation_subject
Wage
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
Nursing
0502 economics and business
Humans
Spouses
Aged
Selection bias
J14
WORK
business.industry
long‐term care
MODEL
Long-term care
Socioeconomic Factors
Propensity score matching
SHARE
Demographic economics
business
Stress
Psychological
SELF-SELECTION
Zdroj: Health Economics, 26(S2), 127-138. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Health Economics, 26(S2), 127-138. Wiley-Blackwell
Health Economics
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3542
Popis: Informal care may substitute for formal long‐term care that is often publicly funded or subsidized. The costs of informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of providing informal care to one's partner on the caregiver's health using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. We use statistical matching to deal with selection bias and endogeneity. We find that in the short run caregiving has a substantial effect on the health of caregivers and, for female caregivers, on their health care use. These effects should be taken into account when comparing the costs and benefits of formal and informal care provision. The health effects may, however, be short‐lived, as we do not find any evidence that they persist after 4 or 7 years.
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