Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health

Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal ()

Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 42, issue C, 174-185

Abstract: In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. The results suggest that there is a considerable negative short-term effect of informal care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision the effect is still negative but smaller and insignificant. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are virtually zero throughout. A simulation analysis is used to assess the sensitivity of the results with respect to potential deviations from the conditional independence assumption in the regression adjusted matching approach.

Keywords: Informal care; Regression adjusted matching; Propensity score matching; Mental health; Physical health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I10 I18 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.002

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