The Effect of Mental Health on U.S. County Economic Growth Academic Article

abstract

• Poor mental health creates significant economic costs, in addition to human suffering, and is a growing world-wide concern, especially with an aging population. To estimate the cost of this disease in the U.S., we adopt a conventional economic growth model and include the number of poor mental health days (PMHD) as a right-hand side variable. Controlling for various county-level variables associated with income growth, our results suggest that one additional PMHD is associated with a 1.84 percentage point lower per capita real income growth rate, or $53 billion less total annual income, across the U.S. between 2008 and 2014. This effect is in addition to the income losses associated with the Great Recession.

authors

• Davlasheridze, Meri

published proceedings

• REVIEW OF REGIONAL STUDIES

altmetric score

• 342

author list (cited authors)

• Davlasheridze, M., Goetz, S. J., & Han, Y.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• Davlasheridze, Meri||Goetz, Stephan J||Han, Yicheol

publication date

• January 2018

publisher

• Southern Regional Science Association  Publisher

published in

• The Review of Regional Studies  Journal

keywords

• Mental Health
• Per Capita Income Growth

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.52324/001c.7997

start page

• 155

end page

• 171

volume

• 48

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.52324/001c.7997

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being