The Effect of Free Elderly Personal Care on Informal Caregiving and Labour Market Participation: Revisiting the Scottish Reform
(2023) NEKP01 20231Department 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
- 2023
- 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
- date last changed
- 2023-09-04 09:08:16
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