Causal effects of mental health on food security.
Food security
Mental health
NHIS
Nonclassical measurement error
Partial identification
SNAP
Treatment effect
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN: 1879-1646
Titre abrégé: J Health Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8410622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
16
12
2022
revised:
11
07
2023
accepted:
28
08
2023
medline:
27
11
2023
pubmed:
5
10
2023
entrez:
4
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Although mental health conditions are known to be associated with socioeconomic hardships, their causal effects remain largely unexplored. Using a sample of low-income families in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we assess causal effects of serious mental illness (SMI) and related mental health conditions on family food security. We apply partial identification methods to account for fundamental endogeneity and measurement identification problems in a unified framework. To implement these methods, we combine a proxy measure of SMI in the NHIS with an estimate of the true rate of SMI from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. We also develop an innovative approach to approximate true prevalence rates when only self-reported prevalence rates are available. Applying relatively weak monotonicity assumptions on latent food security outcomes, we find that alleviating SMI would improve the food security rate by at least 9.5 percentage points, or 15 %. JEL codes: C21, I10, I38.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37793279
pii: S0167-6296(23)00081-4
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102804
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
102804Informations de copyright
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