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SUBMITTER: Fleche S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511887 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kyklos (Online) 20170121 1
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 expla ...[more]