Anti Discrimination Laws and Mental Health

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Samuel Mann, RAND Corporation

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Mann, Samuel. Anti Discrimination Laws and Mental Health. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E210442V2

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Summary:  View help for Summary Exploiting the roll out of state level sexual orientation based Anti-Discrimination Laws over the past 25 years within a difference-in-differences model that is robust to staggered timing, I document the causal effect of Anti-Discrimination Laws on mental health for the first time. Results demonstrate that Anti-Discrimination Laws significantly improve the mental health of sexual minorities. I leverage data from several sources to explore three plausible mechanisms:  changes in labor market outcomes, changes in health insurance coverage, and changes in social and workplace climate.



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