Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021
Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper … asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of …, wealth and family outcomes to estimate the impact of a mental illness diagnosis on subsequent outcomes. Exploiting the random …