Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?

Julien Bergeot
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Julien Bergeot: THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université

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Abstract: Do children cooperate when they decide to provide informal care to their elderlyparent? This paper assesses whether a cooperative or non-cooperative model drivesthe caregiving decisions of children. Focusing on families with two children and onesingle parent, I use data from a survey of older adults in France to compare the predictive power of the two models. Results suggest that children are more likely tobehave according to a non-cooperative model, and that a cooperative model overestimates the level of care received by the parents. I construct an indicator of the degreeof non-cooperativeness between two children and explore the determinants of noncooperation. Finally, I show that this indicator is positively correlated with the numberof unmet needs the parent has. This latter result suggests that the current level of informal care provided to a parent appears to suffer from a public good problem and thelack of cooperativeness between children has detrimental consequences for the parent

Keywords: Informal care; Cooperation; Long-term care; Structural econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-01
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Published in Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1)

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