Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment

31 Pages Posted: 27 Oct 2023

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Yuval Ofek-Shanny

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg-Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg - School of Business & Economics

Avner Strulov-Shlain

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Dan Zeltzer

Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics

Abstract

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.

Keywords: home-based long-term care, labor supply

JEL Classification: I13, I18, J22, H53

Suggested Citation

Ofek-Shanny, Yuval and Strulov-Shlain, Avner and Zeltzer, Dan, Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16551, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4614724 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4614724

Yuval Ofek-Shanny (Contact Author)

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg-Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg - School of Business & Economics ( email )

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Avner Strulov-Shlain

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business ( email )

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Dan Zeltzer

Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics ( email )

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Israel
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HOME PAGE: http://www.tau.ac.il/~dzeltzer

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