The causal effect of retirement on stress in older adults in China: A regression discontinuity study.
China
Regression discontinuity design
Retirement
Stress
Journal
SSM - population health
ISSN: 2352-8273
Titre abrégé: SSM Popul Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101678841
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2020
Apr 2020
Historique:
received:
15
05
2019
revised:
28
07
2019
accepted:
29
07
2019
entrez:
22
2
2020
pubmed:
23
2
2020
medline:
23
2
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Population aging in middle-income countries, including China, has resulted in strong economic incentives to increase the retirement age. These economic incentives should be weighed up against the effects of later retirement on physical and mental health and wellbeing. We aimed to determine the causal effect of retirement on perceived stress, an important measure of mental well-being. We used data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2015 and adopted a non-parametric regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the causal effect of retirement on stress. Stress was assessed using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)-14. On average, the effect of retirement on stress was close to the null value and insignificant. In subgroup analyses, we found that retirement reduces stress in men but raises stress in women. Though these gender-specific effects were not statistically significant, their magnitudes were large. Thus, the average null result in the entire population appears to hide opposite gender-specific effects. More research is needed to confirm this finding in studies with larger sample sizes and understand the gender-specific pathways leading from retirement to stress.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32083164
doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100462
pii: S2352-8273(19)30155-7
pii: 100462
pmc: PMC7016446
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100462Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Informations de copyright
© 2019 The Authors.
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