Schmitz Hendrik, Westphal Matthias
University of Paderborn, RWI & CINCH, Germany.
Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen & CINCH, Germany.
J Health Econ. 2015 Jul;42:174-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.002. Epub 2015 Apr 3.
In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of informal care provision on female caregivers' health. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. The results suggest that there is a considerable negative short-term effect of informal care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision the effect is still negative but smaller and insignificant. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are virtually zero throughout. A simulation analysis is used to assess the sensitivity of the results with respect to potential deviations from the conditional independence assumption in the regression adjusted matching approach.
在本文中，我们给出了非正式护理对女性护理者健康影响的估计值。我们使用了德国社会经济面板的数据，并评估了护理提供后长达七年的影响。结果表明，非正式护理对心理健康有相当大的短期负面影响，且这种影响会随着时间逐渐消失。在提供护理五年后，影响仍然是负面的，但程度较小且不显著。对身体健康的短期和中期影响在整个过程中几乎为零。我们使用模拟分析来评估结果对于回归调整匹配方法中条件独立性假设潜在偏差的敏感性。
