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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| author | Ridley, Matthew Rao, Gautam Schilbach, Frank Patel, Vikram |
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| description | 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 reduces employment and therefore income, and that psychological interventions generate economic gains. Similarly, negative economic shocks cause mental illness, and antipoverty programs such as cash transfers improve mental health. A crucial step toward the design of effective policies is to better understand the mechanisms underlying these causal effects. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1303742022-10-01T10:48:34Z Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms Ridley, Matthew Rao, Gautam Schilbach, Frank Patel, Vikram Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Sloan School of Management 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 reduces employment and therefore income, and that psychological interventions generate economic gains. Similarly, negative economic shocks cause mental illness, and antipoverty programs such as cash transfers improve mental health. A crucial step toward the design of effective policies is to better understand the mechanisms underlying these causal effects. 2021-04-05T19:45:07Z 2021-04-05T19:45:07Z 2020-12 2019-08 2021-04-05T18:22:50Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1095-9203 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130374 Ridley, Matthew et al. "Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms." Science 370, 6522 (December 2020): eaay0214 © 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science en http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aay0214 Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Ridley, Matthew Rao, Gautam Schilbach, Frank Patel, Vikram Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
| title | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
| title_full | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
| title_fullStr | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
| title_short | Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms |
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