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Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital
Nathan Barker
Gharad Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher Udry
其他書名
Evidence from Ghana
出版
SSRN
, 2023
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d_cq0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We study the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical health, cognitive and socioemotional skills, and downstream economic outcomes. We find no evidence of heterogeneity by baseline mental distress; we argue that this is because CBT can improve human capital for a general population of poor individuals through two pathways. First, CBT reduces vulnerability to deteriorating mental health; and second, CBT directly improves bandwidth, increasing cognitive and socioemotional skills and hence economic outcomes.
