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A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care: The well-being approach revisited
Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, di erences in the relationship between caregivers and recipients have often been ignored. We report on a profound and formerly unobserved distinction between care in the household and non-household care for a family member or in a voluntary framework. According to our results caregivers within the household perceive care as a burden and a positive shadow price arises. By contrast in the family but non-household context - and especially in the voluntary case - care is (at least partly) understood as an enriching experience which extends well-being and leads to negative shadow prices. This distinction calls a marketized view of informal care into question and may contribute to explaining the limitations of monetary incentive policies to encourage informal care.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: SFB 649 Discussion Paper ; No. 2013-035 [rev.]
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Analysis of Health Care Markets
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Subject
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informal care
well-being
economic valuation
shadow price
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kehl, Konstantin
Stahlschmidt, Stephan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk
- (where)
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Berlin
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kehl, Konstantin
- Stahlschmidt, Stephan
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk
Time of origin
- 2013
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