eprintid: 18756
rev_number: 31
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2015-05-15 07:15:39
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type: report
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Kehl, Konstantin
creators_name: Stahlschmidt, Stephan
title: A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care: the well-being approach revisited
subjects: ddc-300
divisions: i-717000
keywords: informal care; Well-being; economic valuation; shadow price; voluntary
note: SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2013–035.
Hg. v. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg/ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

abstract: Informal care has drawn much attention among scholars and policymakers as it concerns an essential but hard to evaluate resource of welfare. Albeit several studies addressed the monetary value of informal care, differences in the relationship between caregivers and recipients have often been ignored. We report on a profound and formerly unobserved distinction between care in the household and non-household care for a family member or in a voluntary framework. According to our results caregivers within the household perceive care as a burden and a positive shadow
price arises. By contrast in the family but non-household context - and especially in the voluntary case - care is (at least partly) understood as an enriching experience
which extends well-being and leads to negative shadow prices. This distinction calls a marketized view of informal care into question and may contribute to explaining
the limitations of monetary incentive policies to encourage informal care.
date: 2013
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00018756
ppn_swb: 1656891425
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-187566
language: eng
bibsort: KEHLKONSTAANEWPERSPE2013
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Berlin; Heidelberg
citation:   Kehl, Konstantin ; Stahlschmidt, Stephan  (2013) A new perspective on the economic valuation of informal care: the well-being approach revisited.  [Other]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18756/1/SFB649DP2013-035.pdf