• Care

• Spillovers

• Facilitating work life balance

Are the gender gaps in informal caregiving intensity and burden closing due to the COVID‐19 pandemic? Evidence from the Netherlands Helping helpers? The role of monetary transfers in combining unpaid care and paid work Gender in times of COVID-19 Decline in informal helping during the first COVID-19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data The wage penalty for informal caregivers from a life course perspective

Strategies of Informal Caregivers to Adapt Paid Work The wage penalty for informal caregivers from a life course perspective

Informal care, meaning taking health-related care of people in their own social network, is a topic that gets more and more attention in social science research because the pressure on people to provide informal care is rising due to aging societies and policy changes. The Informal Care Model developed by Broese van Groenou and de Boer (2016) provides a theoretical foundation to understand under what conditions a person provides informal care. We test this theoretical model by applying it to intrapersonal changes in informal care provision during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands in Spring 2020. Data from the LISS panel from two time points, March 2020 and data from July over the period of April/May 2020, was analysed with multinominal multilevel regression analysis (N=1,270 care situations of 1,014 caregivers). Our results showed that the individual determinants (Do I have to?, Do I want to?, and especially Can I?) discussed in the Informal Care Model (apart from a series of control variables) are contributing substantially to the understanding of intrapersonal changes in care provision during the first lockdown and by that, we found empirical support for the theoretical model. We conclude that on top of its original purpose to explain between-individual differences in informal caregiving using static indicators, the Informal Care Model is also useful to explain intrapersonal changes in informal caregiving using dynamic indicators.

We add to the literature by using the external shock of the pandemic as a form to evaluate the scope of an existing theoretical model by testing it from a dynamic rather than static perspective.

• Collected during project

• Questionaire
• Longitudinal survey

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Retrospective informal care career - Main measurement

Retrospective informal care career - Follow-up measurement

Background variables

• Structured

Netherlands

01/01/2020

31/07/2020

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