Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322360 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 777
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Aging populations in Asia are worried that they are facing a "care crisis," with many older people in need of care having no one to care for them. However, we do not have a clear picture of current care patterns: How much care is currently being consumed? Who is providing that care? Are women and men serving equally as paid or unpaid caregivers? We explore the methods for answering some of these basic empirical questions about unpaid care work using the National Time Transfer Accounts, which show that older people are far from being a major source of unpaid care demand, but are making net transfers of time to other age groups well into their elder years. In our group of Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Türkiye, and Viet Nam), these time transfers come on average from women.
Subjects: 
eldercare
childcare
unpaid care work
time use
transfers
JEL: 
J22
J16
J13
J14
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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