The “Costs” of informal care: an analysis of the impact of elderly care on caregivers’ subjective well-being in Japan

Niimi, Yoko

doi:10.1007/s11150-016-9333-1

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“…iii Niimi (2015) finds empirical support for the strategic bequest (exchange) motive using an entirely different approach. She finds that having to provide care to their parents lowers the subjective well-being of unmarried children in Japan but that the negative impact of parental care on their subjective well-being is significantly reduced if they receive inter vivos transfers from their parents.…”

Section: Dependent Variablementioning

confidence: 97%

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka¹,

Gahramanov²,

Hayat³

et al. 2016

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In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. To summarize our main findings, we find that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or near) their elderly parents and/or to provide care and attention to them if they expect to receive a bequest from them, which constitutes strong support for the selfish bequest motive or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms.

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Section: Dependent Variablementioning

confidence: 97%

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka¹,

Gahramanov²,

Hayat³

et al. 2016

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“…Many studies have considered the effects of informal caregiving by family members on caregiver's outcome. In a Japanese study, Niimi () examines the effects of providing informal care for elderly parents on caregivers’ subjective well‐being using Japanese microdata from the Preference Parameters Study of Osaka University. In addition, Oshio () analyzes the association between involvement in family caregiving and mental health in middle‐aged people in Japan using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Middle‐aged and Elderly Persons conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.…”

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Differences in the effects of informal family caregiving on health and life satisfaction between wives and husbands as caregivers

Wakabayashi

Kureishi

2018

Review Development Economics

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We analyze whether or not informal family caregiving worsens caregivers’ health and life satisfaction among Japanese married middle‐aged and elderly individuals from the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement. Unlike previous studies, we distinguish between wives and husbands as caregivers and between one's own and one's spouse's parents as care recipients. We find women's depressive state is negatively associated with caregiving for spousal parents both in our instrumental variable estimations and fixed‐effect panel analysis, and also find women's life satisfaction is negatively associated with caregiving for spousal parents in our fixed‐effect panel analysis, though only marginally so. However, as our results are marginally significant, caregiving for either own or spousal parents does not seem to matter much for caregiver's health or life satisfaction. All that can be said for certain in our paper is that men's subjective health, depressive state, and life satisfaction are generally less sensitive to informal care, for both spousal and own parents, than that of women.

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“…However, we should note that the fact that the child derives disutility from attention to his parents does not necessarily imply that the child is “inhumanly” selfish. Oftentimes, taking care of aging parents can be very stressful and can lower the subjective well‐being of children, as found by Niimi () using Japanese data.…”

Section: An Altruistic‐strategic Bequest Model With Sibling Rivalry Amentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Niimi () finds empirical support for the strategic bequest (exchange) motive using an entirely different approach. She finds that having to provide care to their parents lowers the subjective well‐being of unmarried children in Japan but that the negative impact of parental care on their subjective well‐being is significantly reduced if they receive inter vivos transfers from their parents.…”

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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka

Gahramanov

Hayat

et al. 2018

Int Economic Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. Charles Yuji Horioka is vice president and research professor at the Asian Growth Research Institute, Kitakyushu, Japan. Emin Gahramanov is associate professor at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Aziz Hayat and Xueli Tang are senior lecturers at Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Burwood, Australia.The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.Working papers are subject to formal revision and correction before they are finalized and considered published. AbstractWe conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of why children live with (or near) their parents and provide care and assistance to them using microdata from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. We find that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or near) their elderly parents and/or to provide care and attention to them if they expect to receive a bequest from them, which constitutes strong support for the strategic bequest motive, but that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms.

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The “Costs” of informal care: an analysis of the impact of elderly care on caregivers’ subjective well-being in Japan

Cited by 34 publications

References 41 publications

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Differences in the effects of informal family caregiving on health and life satisfaction between wives and husbands as caregivers

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

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