Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth

Barbara Biasi, Michael Dahl and Petra Moser

No 29422, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative jobs than the population. Healthy siblings of people with BD, however, are consistently more likely to work in creative jobs. We also show people in the top decile of parental wealth are seven times as likely to work in creative professions compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity.

JEL-codes: I12 I14 J24 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
Note: EH LS
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published as Biasi, B., Dahl, M.S. & Moser, P. "The role of bipolar disorder and family wealth in choosing creative occupations." Sci Rep 14, 10703 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61320-y

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w29422.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29422

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w29422

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().