ROMEO FONTAINE

Associate researcher

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fontaine@irdes.fr

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research interest

• Care provision for dependant elderly persons
• Family economics
• Senior labour supply
• Econometrics (limited dependant variables, simultaneous equations)

Current research

• Health insurance choices with regard to the dependancy risk
• Individual trade-off between labour supply and informal care provision
• Interactions between private transfers and public transfers for elderly dependant people
• Intergenerational transfers and sibling interactions

LATEST ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS

Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings?
Fontaine R., Gramain A., Wittwer J., Health Economics, vol. 18(9), pp. 1011-1029, septembre 2009.

Family support for disabled elderly people. Micro-econometric analysis of individual and family care behaviours.
Fontaine R., PhD thesis.
Thesis abstract