Making Gerontocracy Work: Population Aging and the Generosity of Public Long-term Care
(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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- author
- Ellegård, Lina Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Population aging, Long-term care, Local government services, H72, H75, I12, I18
- in
- Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
- volume
- 34
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 300 - 315
- publisher
- Wiley
- external identifiers
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- wos:000304015500006
- scopus:84861203681
- ISSN
- 2040-5804
- DOI
- 10.1093/aepp/pps023
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f94117c5-f497-46e4-895b-c2bf7c1b45d7 (old id 2812847)
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- 2016-04-01 10:31:02
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