The economics of filial informal care: Future trends and directions for policy supports

Funding: 2011: $50,130
2012: $56,186
2013: $51,409

Project Member(s): Maruyama, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2011

Summary: This project examines the family decision on informal care and living arrangements. We aim to make constructive policy suggestions in order to promote the healthy life of elderly people, support more productive fulfilling lives and adult children with elderly parents and fortify supportive family structures.

Keywords: Family bargaining, integrational transfer, empirical game, contract theory, structural estimation, discrete dependent variable econometric models, aged care policy, informal care.

FOR Codes: Applied Economics not elsewhere classified, Health Economics, Panel Data Analysis, Microeconomics not elsewhere classified, Preference, Behaviour and Welfare, Health economics , Applied economics not elsewhere classified , Preference, behaviour and welfare

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.