A country for old men? Long-term home care utilization in Europe.

@article{Balia2014ACF,
  title={A country for old men? Long-term home care utilization in Europe.},
  author={Silvia Balia and Rinaldo Brau},
  journal={Health economics},
  year={2014},
  volume={23 10},
  pages={
          1185-212
        }
}
This paper investigates long-term home care utilization in Europe. Data from the first wave of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) on formal (nursing care and paid domestic help) and informal care (support provided by relatives) are used to study the probability and the quantity of both types of care. The overall process is framed in a fully simultaneous equation system that takes the form of a bivariate two-part model where the reciprocal interaction between formal and informal… 
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