Achou, Bertrand, De Donder, Philippe, Glenzer, Franca, Lee, Minjoon and Leroux, Marie-Louise
(2023)
At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility.
TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1442, Toulouse
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Abstract
Marginal utility of financial resources when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home. In this paper, we develop strategic survey questions to estimate those differences. All else equal, we find that the marginal utility is significantly higher when receiving care at home rather than in a nursing home. We then use these estimates within a quantitative life cycle model to evaluate the impact of the expected choice of care setting (home versus nursing home) on precautionary savings and insurance valuation. The estimated marginal utility differences imply a significant increase in the incentives to save when expecting to receive care at home. Larger incentives to self-insure also translate to a higher valuation of additional subsidies for home care than for nursing homes, shedding light on an efficient way to expand public long-term care subsidies. We also examine how the magnitude of our results quantitatively varies with the existing public long-term care subsidies
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Language: | French |
Date: | June 2023 |
Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Long-term Care, Marginal Utility, Home Care, Nursing Home, Savings |
JEL Classification: | D14 - Personal Finance E21 - Macroeconomics - Consumption; Saving; Aggregate Physical and Financial Consumer Wealth I0 - General |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Institution: | Université Toulouse Capitole |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2023 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2025 08:14 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:128135 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/47945 |