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Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...
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Using employer-employee level data linked to individual health records, we document that the incidence of stress, anxiety, depression, psychiatric medication usage, and even suicide increase following acquisitions. These effects are prevalent among employees from both targets and acquirers, in...
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This paper investigates the effect of parental separation on homelessness. Previous studies are limited in their … parental separation and homelessness, we estimate bivariate duration models to examine transitions into homelessness resulting … separation significantly increases the likelihood of experiencing homelessness in subsequent years for boys and girls if the …
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This paper studies the relationship between early mental health episodes and early homelessness, focusing on depression … the early onset of mental health conditions make a first transition into homelessness more likely. Similarly, we analyse … whether early experiences of homelessness increase the likelihood of early onset of depression or anxiety. We perform our …
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