
Can formal home care reduce the burden of informal care for elderly dependents? Evidence from France.
Arnault, Louis; Goltz, Andreas (2014), Can formal home care reduce the burden of informal care for elderly dependents? Evidence from France.. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/13164
View/ Open
Type
Document de travail / Working paperDate
2014Series title
Document de travail du LEGOSPublished in
Paris
Pages
27
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract (EN)
This paper focuses on the trade-off between formal and informal care for elderly dependents living at home in France. Using the French 2008 household Disability - Healthcare data and a newly built indicator of formal home-care prices in each French Council District, we wonder if fi nancial incentives to use more formal home care could relieve informal caregivers. We estimate a bivariate Tobit model to account for both the censor and the endogeneity of our formal home-care variable. Our results con firm that the volume of informal care provided would decreaseif the elderly dependents were faced with lower formal home-care prices. Moreover, informal caregivers are shown to be much more sensitive to public subsidizes for skilled formal home care than for the low-skilled one. Subsidizing for skilled formal home care would make informal caregivers more effcient to perform lighter low-skilled tasks. Eventually, acting on formal home care prices could help French public administrators sustain the well-being of both care receivers and informal caregivers.Subjects / Keywords
Informal Care; Formal Care; Elderly; Long-term CareRelated items
Showing items related by title and author.
-
Arnault, Louis; Goltz, Andreas (2012-11) Communication / Conférence
-
Goltz, Andreas; Wittwer, Jérôme; Arnault, Louis (2012) Communication / Conférence
-
Arnault, Louis; Goltz, Andreas (2013) Communication / Conférence
-
La prise en charge des personnes âgées dépendantes : analyse microéconométrique de l'aide familiale Arnault, Louis (2015-11) Thèse
-
Fontaine, Roméo (2011-11) Communication / Conférence