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The Effect of Free Elderly Personal Care on Informal Caregiving and Labour Market Participation: Revisiting the Scottish Reform

Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich LU and Cheung, Joel LU (2023) NEKP01 20231
Department of Economics
Abstract
We revisit the Scottish care reform of 2002 to estimate the effect of free formal personal care for the elderly on informal caregiving and labour market participation using a difference-in-differences approach. We find that previous studies’ results suffer from bias due to violations of identifying assumptions. As a result, the effects on informal care are inconclusive. Nonetheless, we identify a causal effect of the reform on employment.
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author
Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich LU and Cheung, Joel LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKP01 20231
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Informal Care, Labour Supply, Difference-in-differences
language
English
id
9127795
date added to LUP
2023-09-04 09:08:16
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2023-09-04 09:08:16
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  abstract     = {{We revisit the Scottish care reform of 2002 to estimate the effect of free formal personal care for the elderly on informal caregiving and labour market participation using a difference-in-differences approach. We find that previous studies’ results suffer from bias due to violations of identifying assumptions. As a result, the effects on informal care are inconclusive. Nonetheless, we identify a causal effect of the reform on employment.}},
  author       = {{Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich and Cheung, Joel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Effect of Free Elderly Personal Care on Informal Caregiving and Labour Market Participation: Revisiting the Scottish Reform}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}