Do public caregiving subsidies and supports affect the provision of care and transfers?

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina

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Do public caregiving subsidies and supports affect the provision of care and transfers?

dc.contributor.author	Costa-Font, Joan
dc.contributor.author	Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
dc.contributor.author	Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina
dc.contributor.department	Fundamentos del Análisis Económico
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-09T13:44:38Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-09T13:44:38Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05-25
dc.description	© 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Health Economics. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102639	es
dc.description.abstract	We study whether caregiving and intergenerational transfer decisions are sensitive to changes in economic incentives following the inception of a new unconditional and universal system of allowances and supports, after the introduction of the 2006 Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons Act (SAAD in Spanish), and the ensuing effects of its austerity cuts after 2012. We find that whilst the introduction of a caregiving allowance (of a maximum value of €530 in 2011) increased the supply of informal caregiving by 20-22 percentual points (pp), the inception of a companion system of publicly subsidised homecare supports did not modify the supply of care. Consistent with an exchange motive for intergenerational transfers, we estimate an average 17 pp (8.2-8.7pp) increase (decrease) in downstream (upstream) transfers among those receiving caregiving allowances. Our estimates resulting from the reduction in the allowances and supports after the austerity cuts in 2012 are consistent with our main estimates, and suggest stronguer effects among lower-income families.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Health Economics 84 (2022) 102639
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102639
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0167-6296
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1879-1646
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/148140
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.relation	Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN) and the ERDF for financial support: PID2020-114231RB-I00 and RTI2018-095256-BI00. Sergi Jimenez also acknowledges financial support from Spain’s National Research Agency (AEI), through the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (Barcelona School of Economics CEX2019-000915-S).	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629622000583?via%3Dihub
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess	es
dc.subject	Caregiving	es
dc.subject	Intergenerational transfers	es
dc.subject	Unconditional transfer	es
dc.subject	Long-term care	es
dc.subject	Family transfers	es
dc.subject	Exchange motivation	es
dc.subject	Allowances	es
dc.subject	Spain	es
dc.subject	Exchange motives	es
dc.title	Do public caregiving subsidies and supports affect the provision of care and transfers?	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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