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Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?

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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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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

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  • Julien Bergeot, 2024. "Care for elderly parents: do children cooperate?," Post-Print hal-04871687, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04871687
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    1. Christine Ho & Kathleen McGarry, 2025. "Brothers, sisters, and support to older parents: separate spheres across and within support types?," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 38(1), pages 1-38, March.

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