. Little is known about the relationship between social participation, functional health, and depression in the older adult … evident that with improving functional health and a high level of access to social participation, depression among older … health in reducing the risk of depression among older adults. The study suggests that physical activity and social capital …

health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … health improves, cognitive skills deteriorate and mortality is not affected. However, there is substantial effect … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account …

Background: We aim to investigate to what extent gender inequality at the labor market explains higher depression risk … the Health and Retirement Study. We calculate the gender gap as the difference in the prevalence of elevated depressive … symptoms (>= 3, 8-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale) between women and men. We employ a dynamic causal …

of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to examine the effect of pension enrollment on mental health, as measured by CES …We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the … NRPS. We first describe plausible pathways through which pension may affect mental health. We then use the national sample …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in … subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …