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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.

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