Table 5.

Mechanism analysis in the China family panel studies 2016, 2018,2020

Variables	Stress channel		Wealth channel		Leisure and social activities channel
	Depression		Log of wage income		Leisure time		Sleep time
Informal caregiving	0.262* (0.146)		-0.298*** (0.065)		-0.157* (0.092)		-0.037** (0.018)
Low-frequency of care		0.113 (0.011)		-0.113 (0.074)		-0.070 (0.154)		-0.032 (0.021)
High-frequency of care		0.375*** (0.146)		-0.668*** (0.095)		-0.336* (0.198)		-0.048* (0.028)
Observations	19,264	19,264	19,264	19,264	19,264	19,264	19,264	19,264

Note: ^*** p < 0.01 ^** p < 0.05 ^* p < 0.1. The robust standard errors were reported in brackets and coefficients were reported outside brackets. Ref.=No care provided. The dummy variables of year and province and other variables shown in Table 3 are controlled in all regressions