We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid … disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related hospitalizations but mental illness hospitalizations were unchanged. Use of …

Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …

Racial, ethnic, and gender minorities face mental health disparities. While mental health care can help, minoritized … groups could face discriminatory barriers in accessing it. Discrimination may be particularly pronounced in mental health … in access to health care, but there is limited empirical research on discrimination in access to mental health care. We …

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the rate of mental health disorders, as well as demand for mental health services. It … remains unclear, however, the extent to which the pandemic impacted access to mental health services. Using data from an audit … field experiment, we examine the impact of COVID-19 on access to mental health care appointments in the United States. This …

Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female … health at retirement. These findings suggest that occupational differences in mental illness and related health care …

There is sparse evidence on the impact of health information on mental health as well as on the mechanisms governing … this relationship. We estimate the causal impact of health information on mental health via the effect of a diabetes …

We investigate how early life circumstances induced by trade liberalization affect adolescent mental health in China …

This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of … associated with better mental health while greater uncertainty, as measured by index volatility, is associated with poorer mental …, it appears as though share prices matter to mental health because they perform the role of economic barometer. -- share …

Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … data on drug prescriptions to infer information about the health status of individuals and link it labor market outcomes …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …