Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263673 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15457
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We show that a Scottish policy reform, which introduced free formal personal home care for those aged 65 and above, reduced the probability and the hours of receiving informal personal care. Moreover, we find that the group of individuals that most benefited from the policy introduction, i.e. women aged 75 and above, experienced the largest fall in informal care. We go on to investigate whether such reductions in informal and increases in formal personal care impacted on the care recipients' health outcomes. Our results demonstrate that switching from informal to formal care does very little to the recipients' hospital usage and health outcomes.
Subjects: 
long-term elderly care
ageing
financial support
difference-in-differences
JEL: 
C21
D14
I18
J14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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