Making Gerontocracy Work: Population Aging and the Generosity of Public Long-term Care

Summary, in English

This paper examines how the aging population affects the generosity of public long-term care (LTC) in Sweden. Theoretically, aging has a direct effect on LTC policy because the elderly become a more important voter group. However, concerns for other citizens may dampen the political importance of the elderly. Fixed effects regressions on municipality-level panel data for 1999-2007 suggest that LTC generosity slightly decreases in response to an aging population. In particular, a smaller share of the elderly become entitled to LTC.

• Författare: Lina Maria Ellegård
• Avdelning/ar: Nationalekonomiska institutionen
• Publiceringsår: 2012
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 300-315
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
• Volym: 34
• Issue: 2
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps023
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Wiley
• Ämne: Economics
• Nyckelord: Population aging; Long-term care; Local government services; H72; H75; I12; I18
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 2040-5804