Mental health cost of terrorism: Study of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris
研究巴黎查理周刊恐怖袭击对法国居民心理健康的影响,发现袭击降低了主观幸福感和心理健康水平,对移民和低收入人群影响更大,对极右翼支持者影响较小。
This study examines whether a terrorist attack in a developed country, which does not cause major damage to its capital stocks, affects the mental health of its residents. By exploiting variations in survey dates of the European Social Survey, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to show that the attack adversely affects subjective well-being and mental health measures of French respondents. These negative effects are stronger for immigrants and low-income individuals. The impact is less dramatic for politically extreme right-wing supporters. The distance from origin has little impact on these measures.