Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers

Autor/in	Brown, Meta
Titel	Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2006) 1, S.191-219 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Caregivers; Siblings; Altruism; Child Care; Social Exchange Theory; Incentives; Attribution Theory; Behavioral Science Research; Gerontology; One Parent Family + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Sibling; Geschwister; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Theorie des sozialen Wandels; Anreiz; Gerontologie; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie
Abstract	Unmarried parents in the AHEAD study derive the majority of their long-term care hours from their children, and child caregivers 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 resource-constrained caregiving decisions, is consistent with a theory of estate division in which planned end-of-life transfers elicit care from altruistic children. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10