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How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
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and girls losing their mothers. Depression is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first three years following …
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Macroeconomic downturns can have an important impact on the availability of informal and formal long-term care. This paper investigates how the market for informal care changed during and after the Great Recession in Europe. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe,...
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subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental …
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the effects on two mental health conditions, namely anxiety and depression. We examine whether differences in symptoms of … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on … an average increase in depression (3.95%) and anxiety (10%) symptoms relative to the mean level on the day that the …
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This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age (MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on...
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We develop a novel approach integrating epidemiological and economic models that allows databased simulations during a pandemic. We examine the economically optimal opening strategy that can be reconciled with the containment of a pandemic. The empirical evidence is based on data from Germany...
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hospitalized for depression. …
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a new measure of perceived depression stigma and then investigates the causal effect of perceived stigma on help …-seeking in a sample of 1,844 Americans suffering from depression. A large majority of our participants overestimate the extent of … stigma associated with depression. In contrast to prior correlational evidence, lowering perceived social stigma through an …
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We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number...
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