Caregivers in the family: Daughters, sons and social norms

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

European Economic Review, 2020, vol. 130, issue C

Abstract: We study long-term care (LTC) choices by families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC can be provided either informally by children, or formally at home or in an institution. A social norm implies that daughters suffer a psychological cost when they provide less informal care than the average woman. Daughters have a lower wage than sons so that their opportunity cost of providing LTC is smaller. Families maximize a weighted sum of children’s and parent’s utilities.

Keywords: Social norms; Formal and informal LTC; Daughters; Sons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 H23 H31 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103589

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