Efficient Elderly Home Care Subsidies

This early stage project aims at understanding the economic and social mechanisms behind the consumption of non-medicalised elderly home care. The goal consists in evaluating the evolution of the consumption of non-medicalised professional care and informal care provided by the family following a change in the price of formal care. The modeling of the supply of home care is an innovative aspect of the project. The sources of variation exploited for the identification of the model will be the non-linearity of the Allocation Personnalisée d’Autonomie, the main subsidy for professional elderly home care, and the diversity of local market regulations. The data that will be used to estimate the model come from the CARE-ménages survey, a representative sample of the French population over 60 years old