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Temperature and mental health : evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce...
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The midlife crisis
Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - 2022
-satisfaction measures. The paper shows that there are approximately quadratic hill-shaped patterns in data on midlife suicide, sleeping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367287
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Happy pills? : mental health effects of the dramatic increase of antidepressant use
Masiero, Giuliano; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Steinbach, Sandro - 2020
Despite the growing skepticism regarding the efficacy of antidepressants, global consumption has increased at an unprecedented rate with unknown implications for society. We estimate the causal effect of this increase on mental health outcomes using an instrumental variable strategy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293768
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Female suicide and the concept of the midlife crisis
Oswald, Andrew J.; Tohamy, Ahmed - 2017
-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647669
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Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union : a study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2001
that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a "feedback" effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a …Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339675
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2019
health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153307
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The impact of mental problems on mortality and how it is moderated by education
Bijwaard, Govert; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per - 2018
Mental disorders have a large impact on invalidity and mortality. Poor mental health is associated with low education …, which is also associated with poor health and higher mortality. The association between mental health and mortality may … mental health problems, education attainment and mortality may all depend on the same observed and unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872482
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Dark passage: mental health consequences of parental death
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986, we use an event study methodology to analyze hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518237
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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories
Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020
We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255698
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School tracking and mental health
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2019
We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130295