In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … research, depression is conceptualized as a drastic loss of utility and value of life (life satisfaction) for unchanged … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …

; dementia ; depression ; risk starvation ; risk ; learning ; hope ; fear ; risk-based emotions … from overprotection. Overprotection prevents children from becoming inoculated against depression with sensible hope …

overprotecting children. Overprotection prevents children from becoming inoculated against depression with sensible hope developed … than dementias and depressions and in some physical illnesses. -- Stress ; whiffs of danger ; decision ; dementia … ; depression ; risk starvation ; risk ; learning ; hope ; fear ; risk-based emotions …

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and … preference measures and a theoretical framework that accounts for the multiple pathways through which depression affects risk …-taking. We find no disparity in the behavioral risk preferences of the mentally well vs. depressed; yet depression is related to …

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and … preference measures and a theoretical framework that accounts for the multiple pathways through which depression affects risk …-taking. We find no disparity in the behavioral risk preferences of the mentally well vs. depressed; yet depression is related to …

emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision … taking becomes weaker in the emotion-inducing state and in the loss domain. In contrast, the association between a …