Well-being losses due to care-giving

Abstract

This paper estimates the impact of informal caregiving on self-reported well-being. It uses a sample of 23,285 respondents of the first eleven waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA).We apply a relatively new analytical method that enables us to estimate fixed effects ordered logit to analyse subjective well-being. The econometric estimates show that providing informal care has a negative effect on subjective well-being.The empirical evidence of our paper could be helpful to inform policy makers to better understand the impact of caregiving and design the appropriate long term care policies and support services.

Long‐term care policy with lazy rotten kids

“…Denoting the Lagrange multiplier 12 The majority of informal care givers is still of working age; see OECD, 2005, p. 110. 13 Empirical evidence that family care goes along with disutility and forgone labor market opportunities for the care giving person is provided by Bolin, Lindgren, and Lundborg (2008), Hughes, Giobbie-Hurder, Weaver, Kubal, and Henderson (1999), Schulz and Beach (1999), and more recently by Van den Berg, Fiebig, and Hall (2014). 14 The assumption on the third derivative is not essential for our analysis.…”

The Well-Being of Elderly Survivors after Natural Disasters: Measuring the Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake

“…The FE ordered logit model was developed by Baetschmann et al (2015) to estimate ordered logit models with individual unobserved heterogeneity in panel data analysis, and is applied to empirical studies of life satisfaction ( Van den Berg, et al, 2014). The present study uses the blow-up and cluster (BUC) estimator of FE ordered logit models because it is considered to be attractive as it is simple to implement and is consistent and almost efficient (Baetschmann et al, 2015).…”

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64? The health impact of caregiving to one's spouse

“…Several other studies have addressed the endogeneity of caregiving using fixed effects regressions (Kaschowitz & Brandt, ; Leigh, ; Schmitz & Stroka, ; Van den Berg, Fiebig, & Hall, ). These fixed‐effects regressions yield mixed results: Although Leigh () finds no effect on life satisfaction, Van den Berg et al () report a negative impact. Kaschowitz and Brandt () find negative effects on the mental health and self‐reported health for caregiving within the household using data from England and continental Europe and mixed results for caregiving to someone in another household.…”