Ofek-Shanny Y, Strulov Shlain A, Zeltzer D (2023)
Publication Type: Other publication type
Publication year: 2023
Publisher: IZA
Series: IZA DP Series
Article Number: 16551
URI: https://docs.iza.org/dp16551.pdf
We study the impact of subsidizing home-based long-term care on recipients’ health and the labor supply of their working-age children. We use administrative data from Israel on the universe of welfare benefit applications linked with tax records of applicants and their adult children. To address the endogeneity of benefit recipients’ health status, we instrument for benefit receipt using the leniency of randomly assigned evaluators who assess the applicant’s functional status and determine benefit eligibility. We find that for compliers – applicants who receive subsidies only from more lenient evaluators – subsidizing home-based care has large adverse effects on recipient health but no detectable effects on the labor market outcomes of their children. The results are consistent with the crowd-out of self-care for the marginal recipient, highlighting the need to assess the heterogeneous eects of home-care subsidies.
APA:
Ofek-Shanny, Y., Strulov Shlain, A., & Zeltzer, D. (2023). Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment. IZA.
MLA:
Ofek-Shanny, Yuval, Avner Strulov Shlain, and Dan Zeltzer. Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment. IZA, 2023.
BibTeX: Download