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Lifting the Burden

Formal Care of the Elderly and Labor Supply of Adult Children

Katrine V. Løken, Shelly Lundberg and Julie Riise
Journal of Human Resources, January 2017, 52 (1) 247-271; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.1.0614-6447R1
Katrine V. Løken
Katrine Vellesen Løken is a professor of economics at the University of Bergen. Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Julie Riise is an associate professor of economics at the University of Bergen.
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Katrine Vellesen Løken is a professor of economics at the University of Bergen. Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Julie Riise is an associate professor of economics at the University of Bergen.
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Katrine Vellesen Løken is a professor of economics at the University of Bergen. Shelly Lundberg is the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Julie Riise is an associate professor of economics at the University of Bergen.
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We use a reform in the federal funding of care for the elderly in Norway to examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions of middle-aged children. We find a consistent and significant negative impact of formal care expansion on insured work absences for the adult daughters of single elderly parents. This effect is particularly strong for daughters with no siblings, who are also more likely to exceed earnings thresholds after the reform. We find no impacts of the reform on daughters’ mobility or parental health, and no effects on adult sons.

  • Received June 2014.
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