Job Loss, Retirement and the Mental Health of Older Americans

Mandal, Bidisha; Roe, Brian E.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.991134

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“…Because changes in labour market status and changes in income may also affect mental health (Lindeboom et al, 2002;Dave et al, 2008;Mandal and Roe, 2008;Tiedt, 2013), we include retirement and becoming unemployed as regressors and also control for changes in weekly individual gross income. In TILDA, information on individual income is collected through a series of questions covering labour income and income from social welfare, pensions, investment incomes and other sources (O'Sullivan et al, 2013).…”

Section: Demographic and Socioeconomic Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents

Mosca

Barrett

2016

J Popul Econ

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Section: Demographic and Socioeconomic Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents

Mosca

Barrett

2016

J Popul Econ

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“…Specifically, our identified effect is about one tenths in size to that of a divorce or being widowed in Britain (Gardner and Oswald 2006), one tenths in size to a medium size lottery win in Britain (Gardner and Oswald 2007), 1/30 in size to the immigration from Tonga to New Zealand (Stillman et al 2009), and 1/5–2/5 in size to the re-employment after involuntary job loss in the U.S. (Mandal and Roe 2008). …”

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Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?

Zhang

Chen

2017

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and evaluative happiness. We match a nationwide longitudinal survey in China with local air quality and rich weather conditions according to the exact time and place of survey. By making use of variations in exposure to air pollution for the same individuals over time, we show that air pollution reduces hedonic happiness and increases the rate of depressive symptoms, while life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important contributor to the Easterlin paradox that economic growth may not bring more happiness.

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“…In the past, most studies assessed the relationship between the economic status and mental disorders by unemployment rate (Catalano et al, 2000;Mandal and Roe, 2008), very few have discussed the effects of other macroeconomic indicators, such as consumer price index (CPI), inflation rate, GDP, and the stock market index, on mental disorders. These macroeconomic indicators reflected other aspects of economic status and might provide a comprehensive assessment of the effect of economic performance on mental disorders.…”

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confidence: 99%