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The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known … about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions … all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) ever conducted that evaluate treatments for mental ill-health and measure economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544702
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"Despair" and Death in the United States
Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
primary findings. First, mental health deteriorated between 1993 and 2019 for all population subgroups examined. Second, these …, to a lesser extent, Blacks from 1999-2019. However, worsening mental health is not the predominant explanation for them …. Fourth, heterogeneity in the consequences of a given increase of poor mental health are generally more important than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072919
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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … prenatal care. Changes in the composition of births, stemming from changes in fertility and family reunification, contribute to … but far from fully explain the birthweight impacts. The more likely mechanisms were instead the increases in family income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576664
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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226183
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on (Almost) Everything? A Review of Recent Evidence on Health and Related Behaviors
Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
related to health. I review and assess the large and growing body of evidence on minimum wage effects on a wide variety of … health outcomes and health-related behaviors …The evidence on overall physical health is mixed. The findings on diet and obesity either point to beneficial or null …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250208
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435121
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The Midlife Crisis
Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388798
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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Exploiting the temporal and spatial variations in economic hardship across provinces, we show that the deep economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537794
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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans : New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations
Costa, Dora L.; Lewis, CoraLee; Yetter, Noelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477239
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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462741