Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Natural Disasters and Mental Health: A Quantile Approach
Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Natural Disasters and Mental Health: A Quantile Approach
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2018
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N. Baryshnikova;N. Pham
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N. Baryshnikova;N. Pham
世界银行和世界卫生组织最近宣布心理健康为全球优先事项。本文探讨了经历自然灾害对心理健康的异质性影响的存在。使用澳大利亚的人口代表性纵向数据，我们发现房主在灾难后的心理健康评分普遍下降。虽然对于那些没有自己的家的平均影响是零，令人惊讶的是，分位数治疗面板方法揭示了存在一个强大的影响，从消极到积极的心理健康分布。研究结果表明，针对房主和心理健康最低的非业主（而不仅仅是经济上最贫困的人）的政策将有助于减轻自然灾害暴露造成的心理健康后果。
Mental health has been recently declared a global priority by the World Bank and World Health Organization. This article investigates the existence of heterogeneous effects of experiencing natural disasters on mental health. Using population representative longitudinal data from Australia, we find that home owners generally show a reduction in mental health score after a disaster. While the average effect for those that do not own a home is zero, surprisingly, the quantile treatment panel approach reveals the existence of a strong effect that varies from negative to positive across the distribution of mental health. The results suggest that policies targeted at homeowners and the lowest mental health non-owners (rather than only at the economically poorest) would help mitigate mental health consequences attributable to natural disaster exposure.