Blood and gender bias in informal care within the family

Canta, Chiara; Pestieau, Pierre; Schoenmaeckers, Jérome

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Blood and gender bias in informal care within the family

Canta, Chiara; Pestieau, Pierre; Schoenmaeckers, Jérome

2023 • In Review of Economics of the Household

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Altruism; Couple decision-making; Informal long-term care; Economics and Econometrics

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[en] This paper deals with the question of the relative contribution of spouses to the long-term care (LTC) needs of their dependent parents and parents in-law. Starting from a theoretical model and using SHARE data, the paper focuses on the role of gender and blood relationships as well as the effect of differential opportunity costs within the couple. The results tend to confirm the existence of gender and blood biases in the level of informal care provided by each spouse, while their wage does not seem to play a large role. When we consider the relative level of informal care by spouses, the gender and blood biases are confirmed. Furthermore, the wage ratio is negatively related to the informal care ratio. These results imply that informal care and private insurance coverage may depend on the gender composition of children, which may justify differentiated public LTC transfers.

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Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

Canta, Chiara; TBS Business School, Toulouse, France

Pestieau, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Ecole de Gestion de l'Université de Liège ; Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

Schoenmaeckers, Jérome ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège Research > HEC Liège Research: Economic analysis and policy

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English

Title :

Blood and gender bias in informal care within the family

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[fr] Bias de sang et de genre dans l'aide informelle au sein de la famille

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2023

Journal title :

Review of Economics of the Household

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1569-5239

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1573-7152

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Springer

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11150-023-09669-3.pdf

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This paper uses data from SHARE Waves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (DOIs: 10.6103/SHARE.w1.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w2.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w3.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w4.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w5.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w6.710, 10.6103/SHARE.w7.711, 10.6103/SHARE.w8cabeta.001), see Borsch-Supan et al. (2013) for methodological details.(1) The SHARE data collection has been funded by the European Commission through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001-00360), FP6 (SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812), FP7 (SHARE-PREP: GA N 211909, SHARE-LEAP: GA N 227822, SHARE M4: GA N 261982, DASISH: GA N 283646) and Horizon 2020 (SHARE-DEV3: GA N 676536, SHARE-COHESION: GA N 870628, SERISS: GA N 654221, SSHOC: GA N 823782) and by DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. Additional funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064, HHSN271201300071C) and from various national funding sources is gratefully acknowledged (see www.share-project.org ).

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