Caring for carers? The effect of public subsidies on the well-being of unpaid carers

Costa-Font, Joan; D´Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina

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Caring for carers? The effect of public subsidies on the well-being of unpaid carers

dc.contributor.author	Costa-Font, Joan
dc.contributor.author	D´Amico, Francesco
dc.contributor.author	Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina
dc.contributor.department	Fundamentos del Análisis Económico
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-15T13:02:03Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-15T13:02:03Z
dc.date.issued	2023-10-23
dc.description	© 2023 American Society of Health Economists. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in American Journal of Health Economics. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1086/723539	es
dc.description.abstract	We study the effect of long-term care subsidies and supports on the well-being of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, which universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of an increase in the well-being (happiness) of unpaid carers after the introduction of FPC. Our estimates suggest economically relevant improvements in happiness (12 percentage point increase in subjective well-being) among caregivers exposed to FPC and who provide at least 35 hours of care per week. Consistently, these results are larger among women and non-actively employed caregivers (17 percentage point increase in happiness). Estimates are not driven by selection into caregiving; they are explained by income effects of FPC among caregivers.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	American Journal of Health Economics, volume 9, number 4, 487-522
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1086/723539
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 2332-3493
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 2332-3507
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/148495
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	The University of Chicago Press	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723539	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Caregiving	es
dc.subject	Long-term care subsidies	es
dc.subject	Subjective well-being	es
dc.subject	Caregiver’s well-being	es
dc.subject	Scotland	es
dc.title	Caring for carers? The effect of public subsidies on the well-being of unpaid carers	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es