PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Katrine V. Løken
AU  - Shelly Lundberg
AU  - Julie Riise
TI  - Lifting the Burden
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.52.1.0614-6447R1
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 247--271
VI  - 52
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/1/247.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/1/247.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2017 Jan 01; 52
AB  - 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.