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ECIN Replication Package for "Locked down in distress: a quasi-experimental estimation of the mental-health fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lina Anaya, University of Bradford; Peter Howley, University of Leeds; Muhammad Waqas, University of Bradford; Gaston Yalonetzky, University of Leeds

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Project Citation: 

Anaya, Lina, Howley, Peter, Waqas, Muhammad, and Yalonetzky, Gaston. ECIN Replication Package for “Locked down in distress: a quasi-experimental estimation of the mental-health fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-08-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193081V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary An extensive literature documents the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, while a nascent one is beginning to detail the mental health impact. A limitation of existing work is that reported findings generally cannot be taken as causal estimates. In this study, we use a large-scale longitudinal survey coupled with a differences-in-differences research design to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the United Kingdom. We report substantial increases in psychological distress for the population overall during the first wave. These impacts were, however, not uniformly distributed with the costs in terms of mental health being much more pronounced for females, younger cohorts, the BAME community, and migrants. We also looked beyond socio-demographics to identify characteristics of the individual and their living environment which can predict who was least resilient to the mental health effects associated with the first wave. We find that people with financial worries, feeling lonely or living in overcrowded dwellings experienced significantly worse mental health deterioration during the first wave, ceteris paribus.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources UKRI

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I12 Health Behavior
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Manuscript Number:  View help for Manuscript Number ECIN-Jul-2022-0307.R1
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United Kingdom

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source UK Longitudinal Household Survey
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Individuals
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit United Kingdom

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V2 [2023-09-07]

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