Lifting the Burden
利用挪威老年护理联邦资助改革，研究发现扩大正式护理对单身老年父母的成年女儿的带薪病假有显著负面影响，尤其对无兄弟姐妹的女儿影响更大，但对儿子无影响。
We use a reform in the federal funding of care for the elderly in Norway to examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions of middle-aged children. We find a consistent and significant negative impact of formal care expansion on insured work absences for the adult daughters of single elderly parents. This effect is particularly strong for daughters with no siblings, who are also more likely to exceed earnings thresholds after the reform. We find no impacts of the reform on daughters' mobility or parental health, and no effects on adult sons.