The Caregiving Responsibilities of Retirees: What Are They and How Do They Affect Retirees' Well-being?

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Using data from the 2010 and 2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and the associated Well-being Modules, this paper examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. Different caregiving activities are examined, including caring for household children, caring for non-household children, caring for household adults, and caring for non-household adults. Different aspects of well-being are examined, including how meaningful respondents find their activities and how happy, sad, tired, in pain, and stressed their activities make them. The results show that, controlling for selection into caregiving, most caregiving negatively affects the well-being of retirees. This suggests that policies that remove some of the caregiving burden from retirees would increase their well-being.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9568

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
• Subject: caregiving ; well-being ; retirement ; time use

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kalenkoski, Charlene M. ; Oumtrakool, Eakamon
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126656
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET