ArticleSSM - population health2022
Mental health and life-course shocks in a low-income country: Evidence from Malawi.
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- Cognitive aging across the life course in a low-income context: evidence from Malawi.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Economic shocks and mental health in Bangladesh.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- The relationship between household economic shocks, depression, and elevated stress-responsive biomarkers among adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068).Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Value shift in response to aging: a longitudinal study based on healthy aging.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Economic insecurity has been widely hypothesized to be an important determinant of mental health, but this relationship has not been well-documented in low-income countries. Using data from the Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC), we investigate the association of negative economic shocks with mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety among adults aged 45+ years living in a low-income country. Using fixed effects estimates that control for time-invariant unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find that increased economic instability caused by events such as death of a family member, yield loss, or income loss is positively associated with worse mental health outcomes as measured by the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 instruments. Our results suggest that costly economic events are a key component to worsening mental health in settings characterized by pervasive poverty and underscore the importance of mental health as a public health and development target.
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