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Sheepskin or Prozac? The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health. CEE DP 71
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Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains health information from childhood to adulthood and thus…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Outcomes of Education, Mental Health, Depression (Psychology)