Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries' macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants' mental health

We provide the first empirical evidence that better economic performances by immigrants' countries of origin, as measured by lower consumer price index (CPI) or higher gross domestic product, improve immigrants' mental health. We use an econometrically‐robust approach that exploits exogeno...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inHealth economics Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 189 - 208
Main Authors Nguyen, Ha Trong, Connelly, Luke Brian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.01.2018
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Australia
Consumer Price Index
Economics - trends
Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology
exchange rate
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
health
Health economics
Humans
Immigrants
Inflation
Macroeconomics
Mental Health
Middle Aged
Models, Econometric
Noncitizens
Socioeconomic Factors
Unemployment
Australia
GDP
unemployment
health
Australia
exchange rate
inflation
immigrants
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:We provide the first empirical evidence that better economic performances by immigrants' countries of origin, as measured by lower consumer price index (CPI) or higher gross domestic product, improve immigrants' mental health. We use an econometrically‐robust approach that exploits exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions across immigrants' home countries over time and controls for immigrants' observable and unobservable characteristics. The CPI effect is statistically significant and sizeable. Furthermore, the CPI effect diminishes as the time since emigrating increases. By contrast, home countries' unemployment rates and exchange rate fluctuations have no impact on immigrants' mental health.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:1057-9230
1099-1050
DOI:10.1002/hec.3532