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| Title: | | Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany  |
| Authors: | | Arntz, Melanie Thomsen, Stephan L. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 08-113 |
| Abstract: | | This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random assignment into a treatment group receiving personal budgets and a control group in standard home care programs, i.e. an in-kind benefit (agency care) and cash payments. Compared to agency care personal budgets yield better care outcomes with regard to the overall support of formal and informal caregivers. In contrast, personal budgets do not improve care outcomes compared to the much less generous cash payments due to a strong crowding out of informal by formal care. |
| Subjects: | | consumer-directed long-term care social experiment personal budget evaluation Germany |
| JEL: | | I12 I38 C93 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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