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Decentralized Home Care Sector Regulation and the Demand for Formal Care

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  • Quitterie Roquebert
  • Rémi Kaboré
  • Jérôme Wittwer

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In a context of population ageing, public policies encourage the utilization of professional home care for the elderly living in the community. In the French context, it takes the form of subsidies financing the demand and public regulation of the home care sector. We study how the level of regulation in the home care sector relates to formal care use by the disabled elderly, using departmental variations in the importance of regulated of providers on the local sector. We exploit an original survey on departmental practices matched with a national health survey to estimate the determinants of formal care use, at the extensive margin. When non-regulated providers ? whose quality is uncertain and price is lightly regulated ? dominate the market, the disabled elderly have a lower probability to use formal home care. This effect is concentrated on the youngest elderly, aged 60 to 70, and vanishes for older individuals. Our results contribute to discuss both the questions raised by the decentralization of a national policy and the recent reform of the home care sector requiring all home care structures to be regulated. JEL Classification: D12, H75, I18, J14

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  • Quitterie Roquebert & Rémi Kaboré & Jérôme Wittwer, 2019. "Decentralized Home Care Sector Regulation and the Demand for Formal Care," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 129(6), pages 1031-1054.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_296_1031
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    1. Quitterie Roquebert & Jonathan Sicsic & Thomas Rapp, 2021. "Health measures and long-term care use in the European frail population," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 22(3), pages 405-423, April.

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    Keywords

    long-term care; home care; supply regulation; decentralization;
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    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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