La demande d'aide à domicile est-elle sensible au reste-à-charge: une analyse multi-niveaux sur données françaises

Robin Hege ()
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Abstract: This article focuses on the price-elasticity of demand for formal home-care received by disabled elderly. In France a public financing system of long-term care for disabled elderly – aged 60 and over – called APA (Allocation Personnalisée d'Autonomie) has been set up in 2001. This policy is based on a partial subsidization of demand for formal home-care so that an out-of-pocket cost remains. It rests on three variables: the department policy, the provider chosen by the recipient and the income level of the recipient. The induced heterogeneity of the out-of-pocket cost allows price-elasticity estimations but compels me to employ two databases. I use the HSM survey – an individual database on disability and health that is representative of the French population – and the Territoire survey which provides information in each region on the APA policy parameters. The combination of these two databases enables me to approximate the out-of-pocket cost for each individual that is the one-hour formal home-care price. I estimate a multi-level model with random effects and find that the price-elasticity of demand for formal home-care has a value of -0.15 at my average point

Keywords: Price-elasticity; formal home-care; geographical equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 H42 H71 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2016-03
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