Who cares? Caregiver well-being in Europe

Abstract

This paper analyzes a multi-national sample comparing self-reported well-being of those who provide dependent care with that of noncaregivers. We pair individual-level data from the 2004 European Social Survey (ESS) for respondents in 22 nations (n=41,000+) with country-level measures of attitudinal support for coresidential familial caregiving (2007 Eurobarometer), old age and family public transfers (OECD Social Expenditures Database, 2014), and economic development (GDP). Using multilevel modeling, we examine the association between country-level coresidential familial attitudes and public spending and individual-level caregiver well-being, comparing effects by gender. We find that- (i) c..