The causal effect of mental health on labor market outcomes: The case of stress-related mental disorders following a human-made disaster.

ABSTRACT: As disasters increase due to climate change, population density, epidemics, and technology, information is needed about postdisaster consequences for people's mental health and how stress-related mental disorders affect multiple spheres of life, including labor-market attachment. We tested the causal hypothesis that individuals who developed stress-related mental disorders as a consequence of their disaster exposure experienced subsequent weak labor-market attachment and poor work-related outcomes. We leveraged a natural experiment in an instrumental variables model, studying a 2004 fireworks factory explosion disaster that precipitated the onset of stress-related disorders (posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression) among individuals in the local community (N = 86,726). We me

SUBMITTER: Andersen SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11228458 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature