McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1090-1104
Do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? We use exogenous variation in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental health among older U.S. adults. We compare cross-wave changes in wealth and mental health for...