Barigozzi, Francesca, Cremer, Helmuth
and Roeder, Kerstin
(2017)
Caregivers in the family: daughters, sons and social norms.
TSE Working Paper, n. 17-823, Toulouse

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Abstract
Daughters are the principal caregivers of their dependent parents. In this paper, we study long-term care (LTC) choices by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care 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 child. We show that the laissez-faire (LF) and the utilitarian first-best (FB) differ for two reasons. First, because informal care imposes a negative externality on daughters via the social norm, too much informal care is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general from their weights in social welfare. We show that the FB allocation can be achieved through a system of subsidies on formal home and institutional care. Except when children and parents have equal bargaining weights these subsidies are gender-specific and reflect Pigouvian as well as "paternalistic" considerations.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Sub-title: | daughters, sons and social norms |
Language: | English |
Date: | June 2017 |
Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Social norms, formal and informal LTC, daughters, sons |
JEL Classification: | D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H31 - Household I19 - Other |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2018 14:06 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:57 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:31797 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25628 |
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