Examining the Impact of Long-Term Care Insurance on the Care Burden and Labor Market Participation of Informal Carers: A Quasi-Experimental Study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Existing evidence from high-income countries suggests that policies aimed at enhancing access to formal care can reduce the burden on informal carers and facilitate their reentry into the labor market. However, there is limited evidence regarding the specific carers who have been most affected by such insurance. This study focuses on China's long-term care insurance (LTCI) and examines its effects on informal care burden and the labor market participation of different types of informal carers.

Methods

Drawing data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study of 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2018, we employ a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model with propensity score matching to analyze the impact of LTCI. To explore time-varying DID estimates, we ado

SUBMITTER: Pei X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227048 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature