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Can the implementation of the smart city pilot policy improve the social adaptive health and mental health of middle-aged and elderly people? Evidence from China.
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Abstract
With the accelerating pace of population aging in China and the implementation of the smart city pilot policy, whether the middle-aged and elderly population can integrate and adapt to this "smart" society has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved. In this context, exploring the impact of smart city pilot policies on the social adaptation health and mental health of middle-aged and elderly people has become a top priority for China to implement a national strategy to actively respond to population aging. Thus, based on panel data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) for the years 2011, 2013, and 2015, this study employs the difference-in-differences (DID) method to investigate whether the smart city pilot policy can improve the social adaptive health and mental health of middle-aged and elderly people and to explore in depth the mechanism of its influence. The study finds that compared with non-pilot cities, the social adaptive health and mental health of middle-aged and elderly people in smart cities improve by 0.6% and 2.2%, respectively. The mechanism effect study shows that the smart city pilot policy can improve the mental health of the middle-aged and the elderly through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the enhancement of human capital. Furthermore, for the social adaptive health of middle-aged and elderly individuals, the smart city pilot policy can only make improvements through the enhancement of human capital. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of smart city pilot policies on social adaptive health is more pronounced in the middle-aged group than in the elderly group.
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