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Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms

Daughters are the principal caregivers of their dependent parents. In this paper, we study long-term care (LTC) choices by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be provided either informally by children, or formally at home or in an institution. A social norm implies that daughters suffer a psychological cost when they provide less informal care than the average child. We show that the laissez-faire (LF) and the utilitarian first-best (FB) differ for two reasons. First, because informal care imposes a negative externality on daughters via the social norm, too much informal care is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general from their weights in social welfare. We show that the FB allocation can be achieved through a system of subsidies on formal home and institutional care. Except when children and parents have equal bargaining weights these subsidies are gender-specific and reflect Pigouvian as well as "paternalistic" considerations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10862

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Health: Other
Thema
social norms
formal and informal LTC
daughters
sons

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Barigozzi, Francesca
Cremer, Helmuth
Roeder, Kerstin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2017

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Barigozzi, Francesca
  • Cremer, Helmuth
  • Roeder, Kerstin
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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