PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Meta Brown
TI  - Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.1.191
DP  - 2006 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 191--219
VI  - XLI
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/191.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/191.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2006 Jan 01; XLI
AB  - Unmarried parents in the AHEAD study derive the majority of their longterm care hours from their children, and childcaregivers are generally unpaid. This paper examines the extent to which the division of end-of-life transfers compensates caregiving children. In a model of siblings' altruistic contribution of care to a shared parent, the parent's estate division is found to influence total family care, even where care contingencies are unenforced. Evidence in the AHEAD data that end-of-life transfers favor both current and expected caregivers, and that children make altruistic but resourceconstrained caregiving decisions, is consistent with a theory of estate division in which planned end-of-life transfers elicit care from altruistic children.