Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects
研究针对长期依赖福利者的激活计划对劳动力市场和心理健康的影响，发现该计划未改变男女的就业结果，但减少了男性心理健康药物的使用。
In many Western countries, a sizeable group of people live on welfare benefits for a long time. Many of them suffer from mental health issues. This paper studies the labor market and mental health effects of an activation program targeting these long-term inactive people. We exploit the staggered implementation of the program in a difference-in-differences design. We find that the activation program does not affect labor market outcomes of men and women. However, among men who were on mental health medication prior to the start of the program, we find a substantial drop in mental health drug prescriptions in the years following the start of the program.