Calendrier du 21 février 2017
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 21/02/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
Salle A2
PRESIDENTE Giorgio ()
Labor Services at Will: Regulation of Dismissal and Investment in Industrial Robots
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 21/02/2017 de 14:30 à 16:00
Maison des Sciences Economiques, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, salle du 6ème étage
JAVORCIK Beata (U. of Oxford)
When a Policy Backfires: The Unintended Consequences of Taxing Import Financing
écrit avec Banu Demir (Bilkent University)
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 21/02/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle 8, RDC Bâtiment G, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
TENAND Marianne (PSE)
Pay less, consume more? Estimating the price elasticity of home care demand of the disabled elderly
écrit avec Quitterie Roquebert (PSE)
Although the consumption of home care is increasing with population ageing, little is known about its price sensitivity. This paper estimates the price elasticity of the demand for home care of the disabled elderly. We use an original dataset collected from a French County Council on the beneficiaries of the French home care program (Allocation personnalisée d'autonomie, “APA”). This cash-for-care allowance works as an hourly subsidy reducing the price of home care. APA administrative records provide unique information on out--of--pocket payments and home care consumption. Identification primarily relies on inter--individual variations in producer prices. Price endogeneity may arise if APA beneficiaries non--randomly select into a producer; we address this potential issue by exploiting the unequal spatial distribution of producers in the district. Our results point to a price elasticity lower than unity, around -0.4: a 10% increase in the out-of-pocket price is predicted to lower consumption by 4%, or 37 minutes per month for the median consumer. Copayment rates thus matter for allocative and dynamic efficiencies, while the generosity of home care subsidies also entails redistributive effects.