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How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
representative data from the Gallup-Healthways survey to assess the spillover effects of mass shootings on community wellbeing and … community wellbeing and emotional health. According to our results, a mass shooting is associated with a 27 percentage point … decline in the likelihood of having excellent community wellbeing and a 13 percentage point decline in the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497780
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How do mass shootings affect community wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
representative data from the Gallup-Healthways survey to assess the spillover effects of mass shootings on community wellbeing and … community wellbeing and emotional health. According to our results, a mass shooting is associated with a 27 percentage point … decline in the likelihood of having excellent community wellbeing and a 13 percentage point decline in the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316219
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How Mental Illness Loses Out in the NHS A report by The Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group
Layard, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … matter of simple economics - the net cost to the NHS would be very small. When everyone praises early intervention, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552995
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Sleep quality and the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries
Jabakhanji, Samira; Lepinteur, Anthony; Menta, Giorgia; … - 2022 - This version: September 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to lifestyle changes across Europe with a likely impact on sleep quality. This investigation considers sleep quality in relation to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries. Using panel regressions and keeping policy responses to COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382278
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Medical Cannabis Availability and Mental Health : Evidence From New York's Medical Cannabis Program
Drake, Coleman; Nagy, Dylan; Slusky, David; Eisenberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis dispensary availability's effects on self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544792
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Mental Health in European Economics Departments
Macchi, Elisa; Sievert, Clara; Bolotnyy, Valentin; … - 2023
We study the mental health of graduate students and faculty at 14 Economics departments in Europe. Using clinically validated surveys sent out in the fall of 2021, we find that 34.7% of graduate students experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety and 17.3% report suicidal or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377212
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Mental health in european economics departments
Macchi, Elisa; Sievert, Clara; Bolotnyy, Valentin; … - 2023
We study the mental health of graduate students and faculty at 14 Economics departments in Europe. Using clinically validated surveys sent out in the fall of 2021, we find that 34.7% of graduate students experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety and 17.3% report suicidal or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311987
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Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness
Wehner, Caroline; Schils, Trudie; Borghans, Lex - 2016
A growing number of economic studies show that low emotional stability is typically negatively related to socioeconomic outcomes, while conscientiousness predicts desirable results. However, possible mechanisms behind these relations are far less explored. Gaining insights into the mechanisms is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584652
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Social Networks and Mental Health Problems: Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually separated from their rural families and work in an unfamiliar, and sometimes hostile, city environment. This paper investigates to what extent city social networks alleviate mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653209
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
Zhang, Yunting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525700