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We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find...
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same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the … previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed pre- and post …-COVID-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …
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The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...
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We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD … Medicaid to pay for behavioral health hospitalizations declined post-disenrollment. Mental illness hospitalization financing …
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health metrics might be unduly affected by mis-reporting (perhaps stemming from stigma effects). In this paper we consider …
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The COVID 19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, affecting not only physical health and the economy but also … health intervention and mental health. Our examination begins with an overview of the mental health landscape across various … concerning the pandemic's effect on mental health. Further, we delve into a detailed analysis of three noteworthy studies that …
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health of Australian men and women. Leveraging rich panel-data models, we first show that adverse effects of commuting time … manifest only among men. These are concentrated among individuals with pre-existing mental health issues, and they are modest … in magnitude. Second, we show that WFH arrangements have large positive effects on women's mental health, provided that …
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insecurity explain up to 22% of the estimated increase in anxiety. Our results support expanding mental health programmes to …
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Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing …
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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 …
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