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The impact of formal care provision on informal care receipt for people over 75 in England

Saloniki, Eirini-Christina, Nizalova, Olena, Malisauskaite, Gintare, Forder, Julien E. (2024) The impact of formal care provision on informal care receipt for people over 75 in England. PLoS ONE, 19 (2). Article Number e0297157. ISSN 1932-6203. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0297157) (KAR id:105092)

Abstract

In this study, we examine the relationship between formal care provision and informal care receipt from within the household for people over 75 years old using data from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2009. To address potential concerns about endogeneity of formal care we use a ‘spatial lag’ instrumental variable. We find a negative and statistically significant effect of formal care provision on informal care receipt from within the household, suggesting a substantial degree of substitutability between these two modes of care. These findings provide grounds for estimates of savings in the cost of informal care enabled by spending on formal care, which is important in light of the effects of the caregiving burden and associated responsibilities on carer’s labour market participation.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297157
Additional information: author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Funders: National Institute for Health Research (https://ror.org/0187kwz08)
Depositing User: Olena Nizalova
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2024 11:23 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 13:10 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/105092 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Nizalova, Olena.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1704-2632
CReDIT Contributor Roles: Writing - review and editing, Investigation, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Conceptualisation

Malisauskaite, Gintare.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-5949
CReDIT Contributor Roles: Formal analysis, Methodology, Investigation, Writing - review and editing, Data curation

Forder, Julien E..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-4328
CReDIT Contributor Roles: Methodology, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Conceptualisation, Writing - review and editing, Investigation
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