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European Sociological Review Advance Access originally published online on October 3, 2007
European Sociological Review 2008 24(1):37-51; doi:10.1093/esr/jcm033
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Do Welfare Benefits Affect Women's Choices of Adult Care Giving?

Sebastian Sarasa

University of Pompeu Fabra, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Spain. Tel.: 0034 93 542 23 75; fax: 0034 93 542 23 72; Email: sebastia.sarasa{at}upf.edu

This article tries to analyse the effects of old age and disability benefits on women's decisions to allocate time to adult care giving. More specifically, it evaluates the welfare neutrality of proposals oriented by preference theory in favour of cash transfers instead of services provision. Cross-sectional and event history analysis techniques are used with pooled European household panel data and aggregated indicators of public spending on old age and disability benefits. The article arrives at two main conclusions: (i) non-mean-tested provision of benefits lowers the risk of heavy adult care giving among all women, while means-tested benefits have no significant effect on poor women's behaviour, and (ii) providing services is more efficient than cash transfers in reducing women's probability of allocating many hours to adult care.

Manuscript received: May 1, 2006.


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