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Making Gerontocracy Work: Population Aging and the Generosity of Public Long-term Care

Ellegård, Lina Maria LU (2012) In Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 34(2). p.300-315
Abstract
This paper examines how the aging population affects the generosity of public long-term care (LTC) in Sweden. Theoretically, aging has a direct effect on LTC policy because the elderly become a more important voter group. However, concerns for other citizens may dampen the political importance of the elderly. Fixed effects regressions on municipality-level panel data for 1999-2007 suggest that LTC generosity slightly decreases in response to an aging population. In particular, a smaller share of the elderly become entitled to LTC.
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Population aging, Long-term care, Local government services, H72, H75, I12, I18
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
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34
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2
pages
300 - 315
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Wiley
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  • wos:000304015500006
  • scopus:84861203681
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2040-5804
DOI
10.1093/aepp/pps023
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English
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  series       = {{Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy}},
  title        = {{Making Gerontocracy Work: Population Aging and the Generosity of Public Long-term Care}},
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