Some useful papers on mental health and economics

Will update on this over the next few months but a few papers that should be useful. Suggestions welcome. Thanks to Eoin O'Sullivan.

Aittomäki, A., Martikainen, P., Laaksonen, M., Lahelma, E., & Rahkonen, O. (2010). The associations of household wealth and income with self-rated health--a study on economic advantage in middle-aged Finnish men and women. Social Science and Medicine, 71(5), 1018-26. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.040

Bechtel, L., Lordan, G., & Rao, P. (2012). Income inequality and mental health- empirical evidence from Australia. Health Economics, 21(Suppl.), 4-17. doi:10.1002/hec

Carter, K. N., Blakely, T., Collings, S., Imlach Gunasekara, F., & Richardson, K. (2009). What is the association between wealth and mental health? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63(3), 221-6. doi:10.1136/jech.2008.079483

Cella, M., Dymond, S., & Cooper, A. (2010). Impaired flexible decision-making in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 124(1-2), 207-10. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2009.11.013

Fryers, T., Melzer, D., & Jenkins, R. (2003). Social inequalities and the common mental disorders: a systematic review of the evidence. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 38(5), 229-37. doi:10.1007/s00127-003-0627-2

Gibb, S. J., Fergusson, D. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2012). Childhood family income and life outcomes in adulthood: findings from a 30-year longitudinal study in New Zealand. Social Science and Medicine (1982), 74(12), 1979-86. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.028

Gilman, S E, Kawachi, I., Fitzmaurice, G. M., & Buka, L. (2003). Socio-economic status, family disruption and residential stability in childhood: relation to onset, recurrence and remission of major depression. Psychological Medicine, 33(8), 1341-55. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14672243

Gilman, Stephen E, Kawachi, I., Fitzmaurice, G. M., & Buka, S. L. (2002). Socioeconomic status in childhood and the lifetime risk of major depression. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31(2), 359-67. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11980797

Goldman, N. (2001). Social inequalities in health disentangling the underlying mechanisms. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 954, 118-39. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11797854

Goodman, A., Joyce, R., & Smith, J. P. (2011). The long shadow cast by childhood physical and mental problems on adult life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(15), 6032-7. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016970108

Hasler, G. (2012). Can the neuroeconomics revolution revolutionize psychiatry? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(1), 64-78. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.011

Headey, B., & Wooden, M. (2004). The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being *. Behaviour, 80, 24-33.

Kawakami, N., Abdulghani, E. A., Alonso, J., Bromet, E. J., Bruffaerts, R., Caldas-de-Almeida, J. M., Chiu, W. T., et al. (2012). Early-life mental disorders and adult household income in the world mental health surveys. Biological Psychiatry, 72(3), 228-37. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.03.009

Levinson, D., Lakoma, M. D., Petukhova, M., Schoenbaum, M., Zaslavsky, A. M., Angermeyer, M., Borges, G., et al. (2010). Associations of serious mental illness with earnings: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 197(2), 114-21. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.073635

Lighthall, N. R., Mather, M., & Gorlick, M. a. (2009). Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the balloon analogue risk task. PloS One, 4(7), e6002. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006002

Maner, J. K., Richey, J. A., Cromer, K., Mallott, M., Lejuez, C. W., Joiner, T. E., & Schmidt, N. B. (2007). Dispositional anxiety and risk-avoidant decision-making. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(4), 665-675. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.016

Mather, M., Gorlick, M., & Lighthall, N. (2009). To brake or accelerate when the light turns yellow? Stress reduces older adults’ risk taking in a driving game. Psychological Science, 20(2), 174-6. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02275.x

Mckenzie, S. K., Carter, K., Blakely, T., & Collings, S. (2010). The association of childhood socio-economic position and psychological distress in adulthood : is it mediated by adult socio-economic position ? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 1(4), 339-359.

Michaud, P.-C., & van Soest, A. (2008). Health and wealth of elderly couples: causality tests using dynamic panel data models. Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1312-25. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.04.002

Muntaner, C., Eaton, W., Diala, C., Kessler, R., & Sorlie, P. (1998). Social class, assets, organizational control and the prevalence of common groups of psychiatric disorders. Social Science and Medicine, 47(12), 2043-2053. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953698003098

Pollack, C. E., Chideya, S., Cubbin, C., Williams, B., Dekker, M., & Braveman, P. (2007). Should health studies measure wealth? A systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33(3), 250-64. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2007.04.033

Quesnel-Vallée, A., & Taylor, M. (2012). Socioeconomic pathways to depressive symptoms in adulthood: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Social Science and Medicine (1982), 74(5), 734-43. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.038

Randenborgh, A. V., Jong-meyer, R. D., & Hüffmeier, J. (2010). Decision Making in Depression : Differences in Decisional Confl ict between Healthy and Depressed Individuals. Clinical Psychology, 298, 285-298. doi:10.1002/cpp

Smith, D. M., Langa, K. M., Kabeto, M. U., & Ubel, P. a. (2005). Health, wealth, and happiness: financial resources buffer subjective well-being after the onset of a disability. Psychological Science, 16(9), 663-6. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01592.x

Smoski, M. J., Lynch, T. R., Rosenthal, M. Z., Cheavens, J. S., Chapman, A. L., & Krishnan, R. R. (2008). Decision-making and risk aversion among depressive adults. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39(4), 567-76. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2008.01.004

Sturm, R., & Gresenz, C. R. (2002). Relations of income inequality and family income to chronic medical conditions and mental health disorders: national survey. BMJ, 324(7328), 20-3.

Subramanyam, M., Kawachi, I., Berkman, L., & Subramanian, S. V. (2009). Relative deprivation in income and self-rated health in the United States. Social Science and Medicine (1982), 69(3), 327-34. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.008

Weich, S., Lewis, G., & Jenkins, S. (2001). Income inequality and the prevalence of common mental disorders in Britain. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 178(3), 222-227. doi:10.1192/bjp.178.3.222