Informal caregiving, time use and experienced wellbeing.
informal care
time diary
time use
wellbeing
Journal
Health economics
ISSN: 1099-1050
Titre abrégé: Health Econ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306780
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2023
02 2023
Historique:
revised:
20
09
2022
received:
25
03
2022
accepted:
16
10
2022
pubmed:
29
10
2022
medline:
4
1
2023
entrez:
28
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Informal carers report lower evaluative wellbeing than non-carers. In contrast to this literature and our own analysis of evaluative wellbeing, we find carers have a small but higher level of experienced wellbeing than non-carers do. To investigate why, we use decomposition analysis which separates explanatory factors into how time is used and how those uses of time are experienced. We analyze activities and associated experienced wellbeing measured in ten-minute intervals over two days by 4817 adults from the 2014/15 UK Time Use Survey. We use entropy balancing to compare carers with a re-weighted counterfactual non-carer group and then apply Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The experienced wellbeing gap of 0.066 is the net result of several substantial competing effects of time use. Carers experienced wellbeing would be higher by 0.188 if they had the same patterns and returns to time use as non-carers which is driven by sleep, time stress and alternative characteristics of time use. However, leisure and non-market activities serve to dampen this increase in experienced wellbeing. Initiatives to improve and assess carer wellbeing should pay close attention to how carers spend their time.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36303421
doi: 10.1002/hec.4624
pmc: PMC10092671
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
356-374Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 212812/Z/18/Z
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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