全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w18948
来源ID	Working Paper 18948
	Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women
	Edward C. Norton; Lauren Hersch Nicholas; Sean Sheng-Hsiu Huang
发表日期	2013-04-04
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	Informal care is the largest source of long-term care for elderly, surpassing home health care and nursing home care. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time. Transfers of time to the older generation may be balanced by financial transfers going to the younger generation. This leads to the question of whether informal care and inter-vivos transfers are causally related. We analyze data from the 1999 and 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of financial transfers and of informal care. We find statistically significant results that a child who provides informal care is more likely to receive inter-vivos transfers than a sibling who does not. If a child does provide care, there is no statistically significant effect on the amount of the transfer.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w18948
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576623
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Edward C. Norton,Lauren Hersch Nicholas,Sean Sheng-Hsiu Huang. Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. 2013.