Heterogeneous Effects of Volunteering on Frailty in Later Life: A Panel Quantile Regression Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Decades of research indicate that volunteering is associated with better health for the volunteer beyond the selection effects based on health. However, little is known about potential heterogeneity in health outcomes associated with volunteering in the context of good or poor health. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the frailty index (FI) to investigate the volunteering-health nexus across the population frailty distribution ranging from fit to frail.

Methods

Using nationally representative data from the Health and Retirement Study (person N = 34,986; 198,218 person-wave observations), we estimated unconditional quantile regression models with panel fixed effects to estimate changes in FI associated with changes in the share of volunteers in the popul

SUBMITTER: Han SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998351 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature