| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29407 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29407 |
| Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana | |
| Nathan Barker; Gharad T. Bryan; Dean Karlan; Angela Ofori-Atta; Christopher R. Udry | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-10-25 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical health, cognitive and socioemotional skills, and downstream economic outcomes. We find no evidence of heterogeneity by baseline mental distress; we argue that this is because CBT can improve human capital for a general population of poor individuals through two pathways. First, CBT reduces vulnerability to deteriorating mental health; and second, CBT directly improves bandwidth, increasing cognitive and socioemotional skills and hence economic outcomes. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29407 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587081 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nathan Barker,Gharad T. Bryan,Dean Karlan,et al. Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana. 2021. |
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| w29407.pdf（410KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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