Early Life Exposure to Above Average Rainfall and Adult Mental Health

Mochamad Pasha (), Marc Rockmore and Chih Ming Tan
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Mochamad Pasha: Consultant, World Bank, Indonesia

No 1805, CINCH Working Paper Series from Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Competent in Competition and Health

Abstract: We study the effect of early life exposure to above average levels of rainfall on adult mental health. While we find no effect from pre-natal exposure, post-natal positive rainfall shocks decrease average Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CESD) mental health scores by 15 percent and increase the likelihood of depression by 5 percent, a more than 20 percent increase relative to the mean. These effects are limited to females. We rule out prenatal stress and income shocks as pathways and find evidence suggestive of increased exposure to disease.

Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction; instrumental variables; mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2018-05
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