Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/156232 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 43
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the household’s propensity to save. Using the difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the Scottish elderly aged 65 and above. We find that the policy reduced the household saving rate by 1:9 percentage points. This amounts to an annual reduction in the flow of saving of £503. Moreover, the estimated effect is heterogeneous across the age of the head of household. The largest effect is observed when the household head is in his/her 40s, with the reduction in the saving rate of 3:5 percentage points or £1; 213 per year.
Subjects: 
Long-term elderly care
ageing
means tested financial support
saving rate
difference-in-differences
JEL: 
C21
D14
I18
J14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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