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Título: | Caring for carers? The effect of public subsidies on the well-being of unpaid carers |
Fecha de publicación: | 23-oct-2023 |
Editorial: | The University of Chicago Press |
Cita bibliográfica: | American Journal of Health Economics, volume 9, number 4, 487-522 |
ISSN: | Print: 2332-3493 Electronic: 2332-3507 |
Palabras clave: | Caregiving Long-term care subsidies Subjective well-being Caregiver’s well-being Scotland |
Resumen: | We study the effect of long-term care subsidies and supports on the well-being of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, which universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of an increase in the well-being (happiness) of unpaid carers after the introduction of FPC. Our estimates suggest economically relevant improvements in happiness (12 percentage point increase in subjective well-being) among caregivers exposed to FPC and who provide at least 35 hours of care per week. Consistently, these results are larger among women and non-actively employed caregivers (17 percentage point increase in happiness). Estimates are not driven by selection into caregiving; they are explained by income effects of FPC among caregivers. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Costa-Font, Joan D´Amico, Francesco Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina |
Versión del editor: | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723539 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/148495 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1086/723539 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Número páginas / Extensión: | 36 |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional |
Descripción: | © 2023 American Society of Health Economists. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in American Journal of Health Economics. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1086/723539 |
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