Suncoast Ventures · Research Series
A three-part repricing of unpaid care in the United States — from a $1.6T displaced-labor system to the coordination and continuity it quietly consumes.
Paper One · Available
Repricing caregiving through displaced labor rather than replacement cost. 63.0M caregivers deliver 53.0B hours a year — a $1.6T economic system in 2026 USD, equal to 30.8% of U.S. healthcare spending and sitting above Medicaid.
Read the paper →Paper Two
Extends the opportunity-cost framework into coordination and recoverable time: in 2024 women performed 354.1 additional unpaid-labor hours annually relative to men (=$9,901.84 at a $27.96/hour opportunity-cost wage), and interruptions, task-switching, and fragmentation impose measurable productivity losses on the hours that remain.
Paper Three
Frames continuity as a productive economic input. Interrupted work, fragmented sleep, administrative switching, and ongoing coordination reduce continuity across work, recovery, and healthcare follow-through simultaneously — a burden increasingly externalized from healthcare systems into households.