Making Gerontocracy Work: Population Aging and the Generosity of Public Long-term Care
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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.
Department/s
Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Pages
300-315
Publication/Series
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Volume
34
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wiley
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- Population aging
- Long-term care
- Local government services
- H72
- H75
- I12
- I18
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2040-5804