Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
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DOI：
10.1086/701606
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Nyshadham, Anant
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作者：
Adhvaryu, Achyuta;Fenske, James;Nyshadham, Anant
我们发现，成年后的心理幸福感随着早期生活环境的不同而不同。结合可可实际生产者价格的时间序列和加纳具有全国代表性的家庭调查，我们发现，与出生在其他地区的人相比，出生在可可产区的队列中，早期可可价格每上涨一个标准差，成年后严重精神痛苦的可能性就会降低3个百分点(平均患病率的一半)。对相关人格特质的影响与这一结果一致。母体营养、加强童年投资和成人环境可能是影响的有效渠道。
We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies 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 (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 circumstance are likely operative channels of impact.