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 CPI or higher GDP, improve immigrants’ mental health. We use an econometrically-robust approach that exploits exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions across immigr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nguyen, Ha, Connelly, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53360