Working-age individuals are under growing pressure to contribute unpaid time to the care of
elderly family members and friends. Existing work has generally found informal care to …

We study the design of long-term care (LTC) policies when children differ in their cost of
providing informal care. Parents do not observe this cost, but they can commit to a “bequest …

The paper utilizes unique and previously unexplored SHARE data to examine preferences
for inter-generational redistribution favoring the younger generations. It investigates whether …

Objective. To identify how patterns of family economic support help alleviate the cumulative
effects of inequality, with focus on the financial support that children give their elderly …

Using data from the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth from 1995 to 2014, we
study the relation between informal credit (loans from relatives and friends) and a …

Little is known about the economic causes of social isolation among elders in spite of the
phenomenon becoming a growing policy concern in many developed countries with ageing …

Once a parent needs long-term care, intergenerational transfers from children to parents are
considered as economically important. However, less is known on how child-to-parent …

Under the common theme of family insurances under risks during demographic transitions,
this thesis attempts to answer the following research questions empirically. Focusing on the …

We study the impact of parental transfers to their children in early life on the child's support to
the parents at older ages either in time or with money. We conjecture that the type of transfer …

We study the optimal design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when the utility of
informal caregivers is taken into account. Informal care is exchange-based. Children's cost …