We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health … sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide … momentum in changing the relatively poor state of mental health care in India. …

The prevalence of mental ill-health is increasing among young people in many developed countries, raising concerns … study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a …

National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our …

strain and mental health. Specifically, we consider the longitudinal relationships between payment difficulties and … subjective (self-reported anxiety) as well as objective (psychiatric drug use) measures of mental ill-health. Among previously … healthy individuals, payment difficulty experiences are strongly associated with self-reported mental ill-health. The …

This paper examines the short-term effect between take-up of Social Assistance Benefit (SAB) and mental health. Using a … the socioeconomic status – mental health nexus. Our main independent variable is an indicator for SAB, which is the means … Swedish households annually. Mental ill-health is measured by data on prescribed antidepressants, anxiolytics, or hypnotics …

in social and economic conditions, health and survival. However, how the negative effects of mental disorders are … tackle mental ill health in the population, it may therefore be motivated to consider not only inequalities in the prevalence …

Our aim is to study trends in mental ill-health and socioeconomic-related mental health inequalities over time in … different indicators for mental ill-health, as well as different measures of inequality, affect the conclusions we draw … Sweden) are used to study trends in mental ill-health and mental health inequalities over the years 1994-2011. The study …