TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hollingsworth, Bruce
AU  - Ohinata, Asako
AU  - Picchio, Matteo
AU  - Walker, Ian
        TI  - Does It Matter Who Cares for You? The Effect of Substituting Informal with Formal Personal Care on the Care Recipients' Health
        PY  - 2022/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15457
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15457
        AB  - We show that a Scottish policy reform, which introduced free formal personal home care for those aged 65 and above, reduced the probability and the hours of receiving informal personal care. Moreover, we find that the group of individuals that most benefited from the policy introduction, i.e. women aged 75 and above, experienced the largest fall in informal care. We go on to investigate whether such reductions in informal and increases in formal personal care impacted on the care recipients' health outcomes. Our results demonstrate that switching from informal to formal care does very little to the recipients' hospital usage and health outcomes.
        KW  - long-term elderly care
KW  - ageing
KW  - financial support
KW  - difference-in-differences
        ER  -