Locked down in distress: A quasi‐experimental estimation of the mental‐health fallout from the COVID‐19 pandemic
利用英国大规模纵向调查和双重差分法，估计了COVID-19大流行对心理健康的影响，发现女性、年轻人、少数族裔和移民的心理困扰增加更多，且经济担忧、孤独和过度拥挤住房加剧了恶化。
Abstract We use a large‐scale longitudinal survey with a differences‐in‐differences research design to estimate the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health in the United Kingdom. We report substantial increases in psychological distress for the population overall during the first wave. These impacts were not uniformly distributed, with the mental health costs being more pronounced for females, younger cohorts, the black, Asian and minority ethnic community, and migrants. We also identified characteristics capable of predicting resilience to the mental health effects. We find that people with financial worries, loneliness or living in overcrowded dwellings experienced significantly worse mental health deterioration during the first wave.