Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Fenske, James; Nyshadham, Anant - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the...