THE SUPPLY OF CHILDRENS TIME TO DISABLED ELDERLY PARENTS

This study develops and tests a model of supply of children's time to disabled elderly parents, using data from the National Long-Term Care Survey. The model, which assumes strategic behavior among relatives, o ffers predictions about effects of changes in the price of paid person al care, parent's wealth, kid's wage rates, public in-kind subsidies o f personal care, and parent's relative bargaining power on care provid ed by children. Although several statistically significant relationshi ps are obtained, the evidence does not generally indicate that childre n's provision of care to parents is guided by a strategic bequest moti ve.