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The Impact of Different Types of Resource Transfers on Individual Wellbeing: An Analysis of Quality of Life Using CASP-12

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This paper uses data for Spain from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (release 2.3.1) to model the determinants of the quality of life of the elderly, paying special attention to their intergenerational relations. The aim is to study CASP-12 (a social functional index) and explore the effect of interdependency in terms of the transfer of the resources of time and money between the elderly and other family members. To do so, we estimate a latent class model to explore the determinants of wellbeing. This allows us to distinguish between two different subpopulations, whose quality of life is modeled in different ways and who potentially would require different types of public care policies.

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  1. The questions for each of the dimensions used to build the CASP-12 index are shown in “Appendix 1”.

  2. “Appendix 2” shows the definitions of the variables used.

  3. For a review of the implications of using different estimation methods and the estimation of subjective well-being models, see Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004).

  4. An ordered probit model was also estimated, in order to check the results.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the invaluable research assistance of Clara Velásquez and the financial support of Spain’s Ministry of Work and social Affairs (IMSERSO) and Ministry of Science and Technology “ECO2009-10818”, and the Basque Government “IT241-07”. Arantza Ugidos also wants to thank the members of the Labotatoire d’Économie d’Orlèans for their comments and their hospitality during her stay. All errors are solely ours. This paper uses data from SHARE, Wave 1, Release 2.3.1.

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Appendices

Appendix 1

CASP-12 is a measurement of how well people function. In this measurement, quality of life refers to four conceptual domains of individual needs that are particularly relevant in early old age: control (C), autonomy (A), self realization (S), and pleasure (P). Items measuring the four respective domains (three items per domain) assess the degree to which these aspects are perceived as being satisfied on a four-point Likert scale. Therefore the total value of the CASP-12 indicator can take 37 different values ranging from 12 to 48. The first letter of each domain and its 12 items create the acronym. The wording in the questionnaire is in Fig. 3.

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CASP-12 measurement

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Appendix 2

The variables we use are defined in Table 6.

Table 6 Variable definitions and labels
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Ateca-Amestoy, V., Ugidos, A. The Impact of Different Types of Resource Transfers on Individual Wellbeing: An Analysis of Quality of Life Using CASP-12. Soc Indic Res 110, 973–991 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-011-9968-5

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