Replaced or depressed? The effect of automation risk on workers' mental health

Sylvie Blasco

French Stata Users' Group Meetings 2022 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: Automation may destroy jobs, change the labor demand structure and different aspects of work, and may therefore impact workers’ health. Using French survey data, I estimate the effects of automation risk on workers’ well-being and mental health. Implementing the propensity-score matching method to solve the issue of endogenous exposure to automation risk, I find that workers exposed to the risk of automation have a higher probability to declare anxiety or depression and to have a low self-assessed well-being by five to six percentage points.

Date: 2022-08-01
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