ArticleJournal of health economics2020
The cyclicality of informal care.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- A Perspective on Making "Invisible" Care Visible Through Time Use Data.Journal of aging & social policy · 2025Article
- Who came to the rescue? Sources of informal support to older Europeans before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer's Disease?Journal of economic literature · 2023Article
- The heterogeneous effects of the great recession on informal care to the elderly.International journal of health economics and management · 2022Article
- A Comparison of Methods for Identifying Informal Carers: Self-Declaration Versus a Time Diary.PharmacoEconomics · 2022Article
- A comparison of negative financial events experienced by carers and non-carers following onset of the Great Recession.International journal of care and caring · 2021Article
- The extent and predictors of discrepancy between provider and recipient reports of informal caregiving.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper measures the cyclicality of an important input into elderly health: informal care. Using independent survey measures of informal caregiving and care receipt over the past two decades, we find that informal care from adult children to their elderly parents is countercyclical. By contrast, informal care from spouses is procyclical among individuals in their sixties. We find little corresponding change in the use of formal care, highlighting the potential for unmet care needs across the business cycle. These findings suggest that informal health inputs may play an important role in the interpretation of the cyclicality of elderly mortality.
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