Citation:Walsh, E. and Murphy, A. (2018) 'Investigating the causal relationship between employment and informal caregiving of the elderly'. BMC research notes, 11(1), 570. (6pp). doi:10.1186/s13104-018-3684-z
Examining the causal relationship between employment and informal caring to date has been impeded in countries like Ireland where there is a lack of suitable panel data and/or variables for instrument construction. This paper employs propensity score matching to control for non-random selection into treatment and control groups which controls for differences in employment outcomes between carers and non-carers in Ireland using data from Quarterly National Household Survey 2009 Quarter 3. Earlier papers focus on using regression techniques which may lead to biased estimates.
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