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Long term care insurance and family norms

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  • CANTA, Chiara

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    (Université catholique de Louvain, CORE, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve)

  • PESTIEAU, Pierre

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    (Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège; Université catholique de Louvain, CORE, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve; PSE, CEPR; CESifo and IZA)

Abstract

Long term care (LTC) is mainly provided by the family and subsidiarily by the market and the government. To understand the role of these three institutions it is important to understand the motives and the working of family solidarity. In this paper we focus on the case when LTC is provided by children to their dependent parents out of some norm that has been inculcated to them during their childhood by some exemplary behavior of their parents towards their own parents. In the first part, we look at the interaction between the family and the market in providing for LTC. The key parameters are the probability of dependence, the probability of having a norm-abiding child and the loading factor. In the second part, we introduce the government which has a double mission: correct for a prevailing externality and redistribute resources across heterogeneous households.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in its series CORE Discussion Papers with number 2012017.

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Date of creation: 09 May 2012
Handle: RePEc:cor:louvco:2012017
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Keywords: norm transmission; long term care; health insurance; optimal taxation;

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  • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private

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Cited by:

  1. Thibault, Emmanuel, 2016. "Demonstration effect and dynamic efficiency," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 42-45.
  2. Cremer, Helmuth & Roeder, Kerstin, 2013. "Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids," IZA Discussion Papers 7565, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Chiara Canta & Pierre Pestieau & Emmanuel Thibault, 2016. "Long-term care and capital accumulation: the impact of the State, the market and the family," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 61(4), pages 755-785, April.
  4. BHATTACHARYA, Sudipto & D’ASPREMONT, Claude & GURIEV, Sergei & SEN, Debapriya, 2012. "Cooperation in R&D: patenting, licensing and contracting," CORE Discussion Papers 2012055, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
  5. CREMER, Helmuth & PESTIEAU, Pierre & PONTHIERE, Grégory, "undated". "The economics of long-term care: a survey," CORE Discussion Papers RP 2466, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).

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