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Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Fenske, James and Nyshadham, Anant (2019) Early life circumstance and adult mental health. Journal of Political Economy, 127 (4). pp. 1516-1549. doi:10.1086/701606
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/701606
Abstract
We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies substantially with circumstance in early life. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the likelihood of severe mental distress in adulthood by 3 percentage points (or half the mean prevalence) for cohorts born in cocoa-producing regions relative to those born in other regions. Impacts on related personality traits are consistent with this result. Maternal nutrition, reinforcing childhood investments, and adult circumstances are operative channels of impact.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mental health, Well-being | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Political Economy | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-3808 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | 10 August 2019 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 127 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1516-1549 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/701606 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | © 2019 by University of Chicago. Accepted for publication by Journal of Political Economy on 08/11/2018. | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
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