Most of the global population live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs),
which have historically received a small fraction of global resources for mental health. The …

Background Lower incomes are associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing, but the
extent to which income has a causal effect is debated. We aimed to synthesise evidence …

We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by
leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US …

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last
decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project-either rooted in …

We provide one of the first systematic assessments of the development and determinants of
economic anxiety at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Using a global data set on …

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Executive summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an exponential
advance from the Millennium Development Goals, with a substantially broader agenda …

Many policies attempt to help extremely poor households build sustainable sources of
income. Although economic interventions have predominated historically,, psychosocial …

Mental health has been included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However,
uncertainty exists about the extent to which the major social determinants of mental …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The
database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it …