ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Urban Residents-Evidence from China.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Understanding Chinese college students' emotions and attributions during the COVID-19 epidemic: an analysis based on Sina microblog.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Mental Health in the Post-Lockdown Scenario: A Scientometric Investigation of the Main Thematic Trends of Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- The impact of using community home-based elderly care services on older adults' self-reported health: fresh evidence from China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Factors associated with status and self-perceived mental health changes in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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Based on a nationwide micro-survey in China from 2018 to 2021, this paper empirically estimates the causal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Chinese residents, by exploiting the distribution of the outflow population from Wuhan as an instrumental variable (IV). Our findings suggest that for every 10% increase in the cumulative confirmed cases, the number of mentally unhealthy days reported by urban residents in the past 30 days will increase by 2.19, an increase of 46.90% compared with the mean value. The impact is more significant among females, people aged 30 or above, and private-sector employees. Further evidence highlights the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents' expectations of future income and confidence in macroeconomic development, both of which we interpret as mechanisms related to economic concerns. In addition, application of the multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) strategy revealed that the negative impact still exists two years post-pandemic, but it has been dramatically alleviated since the initial stage.
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