Bryan, M., Rice, N., Roberts, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-2883-7251 et al. (1 more author) (2022) Mental health and employment: a bounding approach using panel data. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84 (5). pp. 1018-1051. ISSN 0305-9049
Abstract
The effect of mental health on employment is a key policy question, but reliable causal estimates are elusive. Exploiting panel data and extending recent techniques using selection on observables to provide information on selection along unobservables, we estimate that transitioning into poor mental health leads to a 1.6% point reduction in the probability of employment; approximately 10% of the raw employment gap. Selection into mental health is almost entirely based on time-invariant characteristics, rendering fixed effects estimates unbiased in this context, meaning researchers no longer have to rely on the narrow local average treatment effects of most health/work IV studies.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics published by Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Mental health; employment; fixed effects; Oster bounds; UKHLS |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number HEALTH FOUNDATION (THE) 751630 HEALTH FOUNDATION (THE) UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2022 11:41 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 16:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/obes.12489 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183560 |