Crowding out informal care

• Verfasst von: Arntz, Melanie
• Verfasst von: Thomsen, Stephan L.
• Titel: Crowding out informal care
• Titelzusatz: evidence from a social experiment in Germany
• Verf.angabe: Melanie Arntz and Stephan L. Thomsen
• Verlagsort: Mannheim
• Verlag: ZEW
• Jahr: 2008
• Umfang: 25 S.
• Illustrationen: graph. Darst.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Discussion paper / Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung ; 08-113 : Labour economics, human resources and social policy
• Fussnoten: Zsfassung in dt. u. engl. Sprache
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ambulanter Hilfs- und Pflegedienst / (s)Pflegeversicherung / (s)Hauspflege / (s)Crowding-out-Effekt / (s)Experiment / (s)Pflegegeld / (g)Deutschland
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg. u.d.T.: Arntz, Melanie, 1977 -: Crowding out informal care?. - Mannheim: ZEW, 2008. - Online-Ressource
• K10plus-PPN: 1371544980

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random assignment into a treatment group receiving personal budgets and a control group in standard home care programs, i.e. an in-kind benefit (agency care) and cash payments. Compared to agency care personal budgets yield better care outcomes with regard to the overall support of formal and informal caregivers. In contrast, personal budgets do not improve care outcomes compared to the much less generous cash payments due to a strong crowding out of informal by formal care.