对家政服务的需求：来自自然实验的证据

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107234

Siramane Coulibaly , Bernard Fortin , Maripier Isabelle

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摘要

我们调查了购买家政服务补贴的增加如何影响需要帮助的居家人士的消费。根据行政数据，我们分析了2016年在加拿大魁北克省实施的一项改革的影响，该改革使该计划对一小部分受益人更加慷慨。为此，我们估计了一个差中差对数正态障碍模型。对于这类非线性模型，我们得到了相应的平均处理效果。我们的研究结果表明，对补贴家政服务的治疗需求的价格弹性约为0.74。月购买频率的弹性（0.59）远大于月购买强度的弹性（0.14）。根据我们的研究结果，我们确定了改革在社会上值得采用的边际外部效益的下限。

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Demand for domestic help services: Evidence from a natural experiment

We investigate how an increase in subsidies for purchasing domestic help services affects the consumption of individuals who need assistance to live at home. Drawing on administrative data, we analyse the impact of a reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 2016, which made the program more generous for a subgroup of beneficiaries. For this purpose, we estimate a difference-in-differences lognormal hurdle model. We derive the corresponding average treatment effect on the treated for this class of non-linear models. Our results suggest that the price elasticity of the demand for subsidized domestic help services for the treated is around 0.74. The elasticity of monthly purchase frequency (0.59) is much larger than the elasticity of monthly purchase intensity (0.14). Based on our results, we determine a floor to the marginal external benefit required for the reform to be socially worth adopting.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

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3.80

自引率

9.10%

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392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.