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Area of Science:

  • Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Informal care is a substantial economic activity, yet its value is often unquantified due to a lack of market data.
  • Existing valuation methods like opportunity and replacement cost have limitations in capturing the full utility of informal care.
  • Discrete choice experiment (DCE) methodology offers a novel approach to valuing informal care tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To estimate the monetary value of specific informal care tasks (personal care, supervising, household tasks) using DCE.
  • To model the relationship between formal and informal care provision.
  • To investigate heterogeneity in preferences for informal care compensation using the Latent Class Model.

Main Methods:

  • Application of the discrete choice experiment (DCE) methodology for valuing informal care.
  • Latent Class Model (LCM) employed to analyze preference heterogeneity.
  • Estimation of willingness to accept (WTA) monetary values for different care tasks.

Main Results:

  • Monetary values per hour for informal care tasks ranged from £0.31 to £0.83.
  • A complementarity was observed between supervising tasks and formal care provision.
  • Significant preference heterogeneity was found, with younger individuals valuing monetary compensation more than older individuals.

Conclusions:

  • DCE provides lower monetary estimates for informal care compared to opportunity or replacement cost methods, potentially due to capturing a narrower scope of utility.
  • Age-related heterogeneity in preferences for monetary compensation has important policy implications for informal caregivers.
  • Further research is recommended to explore the external validity of DCE compared to other valuation methods like contingent valuation.