Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
利用美国、澳大利亚、英国和德国的家庭面板数据，研究发现处于最低生活满意度水平的人中，最大比例遭受精神疾病困扰，且精神疾病对痛苦的解释力超过贫困或失业。
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffers from mental illness. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and without fixed effects.