Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent

摘要: We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on adult child caregiver. address endogeneity selection in out caregiving using instrumental variable approach, death recipient sibling characteristics. also carefully control for baseline work status child. explore flexible specifications, such as Arellano-Bond estimation techniques. Continued over time increases depressive symptoms decreases self-rated married women men. In addition, increase is persistent women. While single men are not affected by continued caregiving, there evidence increased incidence heart conditions men, that these persistent. Robustness checks indicate changes can be directly attributable behavior, due a direct effect mother. The initial onset has modest immediate negative no health. Negative emerge 2 years later, however, suggesting delayed would missed with short recall period. Initial does affect