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At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility

Bertrand Achou, Philippe De Donder, Franca Glenzer, Minjoon Lee and Marie-Louise Leroux

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Abstract: Marginal utility of financial resources when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home. In this paper, we develop strategic survey questions to estimate those differences. All else equal, we find that the marginal utility is significantly higher when receiving care at home rather than in a nursing home. We then use these estimates within a quantitative life cycle model to evaluate the impact of the expected choice of care setting (home versus nursing home) on precautionary savings and insurance valuation. The estimated marginal utility differences imply a significant increase in the incentives to save when expecting to receive care at home. Larger incentives to self-insure also translate to a higher valuation of additional subsidies for home care than for nursing homes, shedding light on an efficient way to expand public long-term care subsidies. We also examine how the magnitude of our results quantitatively vary with the existing public long-term care subsidies. L’utilité marginale des ressources financières lorsque les personnes nécessitent des soins de longue durée (ainsi que les incitations à épargner et à s’assurer en découlant) peuvent varier substantiellement suivant que les personnes reçoivent ces soins à la maison ou en CHSLD. Dans ce travail, nous développons un sondage en vue d’évaluer ces différences. Toute chose égale par ailleurs, nous montrons que l’utilité marginale des ressources financières est plus élevée pour ceux qui restent chez eux plutôt que d’être en institution. Nos estimés sont ensuite utilisés dans un modèle de cycle de vie de manière à quantifier l’impact d’un choix de résidence spécifique sur l’épargne de précaution et la valorisation de l’assurance. Les différences d’utilité marginale des ressources impliquent que les personnes prévoyant de recevoir des soins à domicile ont des incitatifs plus fortes à épargner. Des incitatifs plus élevés à s’assurer se traduisent par une valorisation plus importante de subventions publiques additionnelles pour les soins à domicile (plutôt qu’en CHSLD), qui devraient donc être privilégiées par les autorités. L’étude examine également comment ces résultats varient en fonction du montant des subventions aux soins de longue durée déjà existantes.

Keywords: Long-term Care; Marginal Utility; Home Care; Nursing Home; Savings; Soins de longue durée; Utilité marginale; Soins à domicile; Maison de retraite; Épargne (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 E21 G51 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dge, nep-mfd and nep-upt
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