Unequal care provision: evidence from the Share-Corona Survey

Elena Bassoli () and Agar Brugiavini ()
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Elena Bassoli: Paris School of Economics
Agar Brugiavini: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Institute for Fiscal Studies

No 2023:05, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: This paper brings new evidence on the differences in informal care provision across individuals, supporting the hypothesis that women and the "young old" people are more likely to be caregivers. We exploit exogenous changes in the demand for care following the COVID-19 outbreak and make use of variations in lockdown policies across Europe. We use the SHARE Corona survey, which involves about 50000 respondents of age 50 and over in 28 countries and has detailed information on the provision of care, characteristics of the caregiver and of the care recipient. We link the SHARE Corona Survey data with an individual specific "stringency index", which measures the intensity of the lockdown policies and the degree of individual's exposure to these restrictions. We propose a new methodology to measure the degree of rationing of care that older people experienced during the pandemic (and after) and find that women and people in the age group 50-65 were indeed more likely to provide help/care, and also document the multi-facet interaction with the labour market status of caregivers.

Keywords: informal care; care provision; caregiver; gender; women; COVID-19; SHARE data; SHARE-COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I14 I18 J14 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-des, nep-eur and nep-lab
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