Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms

Why are people who live in poverty disproportionately affected by mental illness? We review the interdisciplinary evidence of the bidirectional causal relationship between poverty and common mental illnesses-depression and anxiety-and the underlying mechanisms. Research shows that mental illness red...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ridley, Matthew, Rao, Gautam, Schilbach, Frank, Patel, Vikram
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130374