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Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that illicit consumption of opioids increases in association with socio-economic deprivation of the middle-class. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we set up a task-based labor market model with endogenous mental health status and a health care...
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Age-based health insurance coverage policies and mental health
Han, Yiran; Yörük, Barış K. - 2022
More than 18 percent of U.S. adults met the diagnostic criteria for a mental illness. Yet, many who could benefit from mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to pay for care or lack of health insurance coverage. How does a sudden change in health insurance...
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How does job coaching help disability insurance recipients work while on claim?
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022
We evaluate the effects of a Supported Employment (SE) program aimed at Disability Insurance (DI) recipients with mental conditions. The program is characterized by a "work-first" approach, which includes intensive job coaching and follow-along support. Using a Randomized Control Trial with more...
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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Tello-Trillo, Sebastian; … - 2019
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...
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Credit where it's due : investigating pathways from EITC expansion to maternal mental health
Gangopadhyaya, Anuj; Blavin, Fredric E.; Gates, Jason; … - 2019
While Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions are typically associated with improvements in maternal mental health, little is known about the mechanisms through which the program affects this outcome. The EITC could affect mental health through direct tax credit, changes in labor supply and...
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"The better you feel, the harder you fall": health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2021
The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
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Does extreme temperature exposure take a toll on mental health? : evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023
literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in relative terms based on local temperature patterns. Combining the China …
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Early childhood conditions and adolescent mental health
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Pinto, Rodrigo; Xie, Huihua; … - 2023
We investigate how early life circumstances induced by trade liberalization affect adolescent mental health in China …
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