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The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2022

-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansion on anxiety and depression associated with job loss …. Estimates show that the respondents who live in expansion states are 96.6% (36.3%) more likely to have Medicaid coverage, and … Medicaid is as important (if not more) as the access or utilization to healthcare. The difference …

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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Fleche, Sarah - 2015

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …

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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

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The Effect of Job Loss on Health : Evidence from Biomarkers

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...

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Unemployment and Health : A Meta-Analysis

Picchio, Matteo; Ubaldi, Michele - 2022

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 study results coming from 65 articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2021. We find that publication bias is important, but only for those study results...

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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health : Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2017

An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due to differences in data, methods, samples, and institutional settings. Taking a more general...

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The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Bubonya, Melisa - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment...

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Feeling Useless : The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession

Farré, Lidia - 2015

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10...

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A Family Affair : Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Bubonya, Melisa - 2014

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...

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The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis

Drydakis, Nick - 2015

The current study uses six annual waves of the Longitudinal Labor Market Study (LLMS) covering the 2008-2013 period to obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications...

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