讲座主题：带薪家庭假谁将受益？对中年及老年残疾群体非正式照护与正式照护的影响（The Impact on Informal and Formal Care for Middle-Aged and Older Adults with Disabilities）

主讲嘉宾：陈希 副教授

工作单位：耶鲁大学健康政策与经济系

讲座时间：2025年6月26日（星期四） 15:00

地 点：3044永利集团405会议室

主办单位：3044永利集团 3044永利集团官网创新发展研究中心

摘要：This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies on informal and formal care for middle-aged and older adults with disabilities in the U.S., and how the heterogeneous benefits accrue to different families. We use data from the 1998-2018 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and leverage the PFL programs implemented in California (2004), New Jersey (2009), and New York (2018) in a difference-in-differences (DiD) design. We deploy both the conventional two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model and an adapted DiD estimator developed by Sun and Abraham for staggered rollout designs. We find that PFL access is associated with a 5.7 percentage point increase in the likelihood that individuals with disabilities receive informal care from their children. We also show that PFL access significantly increases the use of home care services and nursing home care. These effects are primarily concentrated among individuals with disabilities who have both a spouse and children, and are almost non-existent among those who have only children and no spouse. Our findings demonstrate that PFL policies improve care access and help address unmet care needs for middle-aged and older adults with disabilities, but their impact remains limited for certain vulnerable subgroups, particularly those with only children.

嘉宾介绍：陈希，康奈尔大学经济学博士，耶鲁大学健康政策与经济学副教授。研究采用全球多国医疗健康大数据，整合因果推断、机器学习和深度学习来评估人口老龄化、生命周期健康和全球卫生系统的公共政策。美国国家经济研究局(NBER)研究员，德国劳动经济研究所(IZA)研究员，Journal of Population Economics联合主编，联合国、世界银行咨询顾问，美国国立卫生研究院Butler-Williams学者和Claude D. Pepper学者，北京大学兼职教授，《中国疾控中心周报》编委会成员，中美卫生健康二轨对话代表，以及中国卫生政策与管理学会的前会长。目前有140多篇论文发表在科学、经济学、医学主要期刊。