精神健康和劳动生产率

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107075

Nigel Rice , Jennifer Roberts , Cristina Sechel

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摘要

我们通过对英国家庭纵向研究的COVID-19模块的生产力的直接测量，提出了心理健康对生产力影响的新证据。我们将COVID-19死亡的空间变化作为工具变量，并通过考虑可观察因素的系数稳定性来计算边界来补充结果，以推断不可观察因素的影响。我们的研究结果揭示了精神健康状况不佳和生产力下降之间存在实质性的正相关关系。我们的估计表明，对于那些报告心理健康状况下降的人来说，生产力平均每周损失约54分钟。

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Mental health and labour productivity

We present novel evidence of the effect of mental health on productivity using a direct measure of productivity from the COVID-19 modules of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We employ spatial variation in COVID-19 deaths as an instrumental variable and supplement results by computing bounds by considering coefficient stability to observable factors to infer the influence of unobservables. Our findings reveal a substantive positive relationship between poor mental health and decreased productivity. Our estimates suggest productivity losses of around 54 min per week (on average) for individuals who report a decline in mental health.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.