Appendix Table 2:

Effects of macroeconomic conditions on informal care receipt, alternative definitions of informal care

	Baseline definition	No restrictions	Not nursing home residents	Nursing home residents
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Sample: age 60–69
Unemployment rate	−0.0076***	−0.0074***	−0.0076***	−.0323
	(0.0026)	(0.0027)	(0.0026)	(0.0695)
Observations	52530	52530	52272	258
Mean dependent variable	0.089	0.091	0.0889	0.527
Sample: age 70 and over
Unemployment rate	0.0046**	0.0047**	0.0049**	0.0075
	(0.0021)	(0.0023)	(0.0023)	(0.0128)
Observations	62850	62850	59590	3260
Mean dependent variable	0.182	0.217	0.191	0.682

Note: Each cell reports the coefficient on the state annual unemployment rate from a separate linear probability model on informal caregiving using data from the HRS sample. The first column sets informal care to zero for nursing home residents; the second and fourth column relax that restriction. All specifications control for a quadratic in age, gender, education, marital status, race and ethnicity, share of the state population aged 18–64 and aged 65 and over, state log expenditures on total Medicaid and Medicaid HCBS services for the older population and population with physical disabilities, as well as state, year, and linear time trends by state. Standard errors, clustered by state, are in parentheses.

^*p < 0.10,

^**p < 0.05,

^***p < 0.01