| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17252 |
| DP17252 Social Media and Mental Health | |
| Luca Braghieri; Alexey Makarin; Roee Levy | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-04-25 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across U.S. colleges. Our analysis couples data on student mental health around the years of Facebook's expansion with a generalized difference-in-differences empirical strategy. We find that the roll-out of Facebook at a college increased symptoms of poor mental health, especially depression. We also find that, among students predicted to be most susceptible to mental illness, the introduction of Facebook led to increased utilization of mental healthcare services. Lastly, we find that, after the introduction of Facebook, students were more likely to report experiencing impairments to academic performance resulting from poor mental health. Additional evidence on mechanisms suggests that the results are due to Facebook fostering unfavorable social comparisons. |
| 主题 | Political Economy ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Social media Mental health |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17252 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546261 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Luca Braghieri,Alexey Makarin,Roee Levy. DP17252 Social Media and Mental Health. 2022. |
| 条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 | |||||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
