BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by
leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US …

Using a longitudinal dataset linking biometric and survey data from several cohorts of young
adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (N= 682), we document large disruptions …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

We assess evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on long-run economic
productivity and living standards in poor countries. We first document that several studies …

We combine data from longitudinal surveys in seven low-and middle-income countries (plus
the United States for comparison) to document that depressive symptoms among those aged …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental
health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by …

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies
designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner
violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, from 2005 to 2016 …