TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hollingsworth, Bruce
AU  - Ohinata, Asako
AU  - Picchio, Matteo
AU  - Walker, Ian
        TI  - Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care
        PY  - 2017/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10988
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10988
        AB  - We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by 12.9%. Conditional on giving co-residential care, the mean reduction in the number of informal care hours is estimated to be 1.2 hours per week. 
The effect is particularly strong among older and less educated caregivers. In contrast to co-residential informal care, we find no change in extraresidential caregiving behaviour. We also observe that the average labour market participation and the number of hours worked increased in response to the policy introduction.
        KW  - long-term elderly care
KW  - ageing
KW  - financial support
KW  - informal caregiving
KW  - difference-in-differences
        ER  -