Informal caregiving and the allocation of time
Implications for Opportunity Costs and Measurement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4596351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Urwin (0000-0002-9084-8368, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Yiu-Shing Lau (0000-0002-3915-4168, University of Manchester), Gunn Grande (0000-0003-2200-1680, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre), Madeline Sutton (0000-0002-6635-2127, Monash University), Matthew Sutton |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 334 |
| Pages | 116164 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116164 |
| PMID | 37603963 |
| OpenAlex | W4385651831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 46 |
Informal care requires a considerable time investment from providers that inherently involves trade-offs against various uses of time. We examine what other uses of time are forgone when individuals provide informal care. We further consider how caregiving is linked to a range of rarely explored time use characteristics relating to multitasking, the fragmentation and the timing of activities. We use data from 5670 adults across 11003 diary days from the 2014/15 UK Time Use Survey. Using a 'doubly robust' approach of entropy balancing and regression adjustment, we find carers spend an additional 49.0 min on non-market work, 2.9 min on personal care, 5.8 min on leisure and 2.9 min on miscellaneous activities on weekdays. They spend 46.1 min less on market work and 14.4 min less on sleep. Carers report more time stress, more multitasking, and more fragmented time. We estimate with attribution factors that 16% and 11% of reported household task activity is due to caregiving on weekday and weekend days, respectively. These findings provide evidence on additional opportunity costs faced by carers and possible channels through which carer labour market and health outcomes are realised. The attribution factors we calculate can be applied to total reported caregiving time to avoid overestimation when this is incorporated into economic evaluations
Attribution · Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Human multitasking · Investment (military · Labour economics · Political science · Public economics · Task (project management · Time allocation · Work (physics · Working time · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |