Home care for the elderly: The role of relatives, friends and neighbors

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 379-404

  Kalwij, Adriaan ^a,b,e   Pasini, Giacomo ^c,e   Wu, Mingqin ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^d SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Informal care; System of equations; Tobit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899624579     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-012-9159-4     Document Type: Article

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