Nguyen Ha Trong, Connelly Luke Brian
Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.
Health Econ. 2018 Jan;27(1):189-208. doi: 10.1002/hec.3532. Epub 2017 Jun 15.
We provide the first empirical evidence that better economic performances by immigrants' countries of origin, as measured by lower consumer price index (CPI) or higher gross domestic product, improve immigrants' mental health. We use an econometrically-robust approach that exploits exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions across immigrants' home countries over time and controls for immigrants' observable and unobservable characteristics. The CPI effect is statistically significant and sizeable. Furthermore, the CPI effect diminishes as the time since emigrating increases. By contrast, home countries' unemployment rates and exchange rate fluctuations have no impact on immigrants' mental health.
我们提供了首个实证证据，即移民来源国更好的经济表现（以更低的消费价格指数（CPI）或更高的国内生产总值来衡量）会改善移民的心理健康。我们采用了一种计量经济学上稳健的方法，该方法利用了随着时间推移移民母国宏观经济状况的外生变化，并控制了移民的可观察和不可观察特征。CPI效应在统计上显著且规模可观。此外，CPI效应会随着移民时间的增加而减弱。相比之下，母国的失业率和汇率波动对移民的心理健康没有影响。
