Norton, Edward C.
[VerfasserIn]
;
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Huang, Sean Sheng-Hsiu
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers
: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women
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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2013
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w18948
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w18948
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Informal care is the largest source of long-term care for elderly, surpassing home health care and nursing home care. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time. Transfers of time to the older generation may be balanced by financial transfers going to the younger generation. This leads to the question of whether informal care and inter-vivos transfers are causally related. We analyze data from the 1999 and 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of financial transfers and of informal care. We find statistically significant results that a child who provides informal care is more likely to receive inter-vivos transfers than a sibling who does not. If a child does provide care, there is no statistically significant effect on the amount of the transfer