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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| description | 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 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-533602018-07-02T00:35:17Z Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health Nguyen, Ha Connelly, L. 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 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. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53360 10.1002/hec.3532 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Nguyen, Ha Connelly, L. Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title | Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title_full | Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title_fullStr | Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title_full_unstemmed | Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title_short | Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| title_sort | out of sight but not out of mind: home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53360 |