IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eut/journl/v23y2019i3p533.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Poverty and Mental Health Association in Iran

Author

Listed:
  • Nima Mohamadnejad

    (Faculty of Management and Economics, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.)

  • Sajjad Faraji Dizaji

    (Faculty of Management and Economics, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.)

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of poverty, which is the direct effect of recent economic changes, on Iranians mental health to shed more light on the poverty and mental health nexus in developing countries. For the purpose of this study, we examine the existence of a possible association between poverty and mental health in urban districts of Iran by applying a double hurdle approach for the period of 2012-2014. We split our sample into 12 age cohorts: 21-25 … 76-80 within 4 major age groups: 21-30, 31-40, 41-60, and 61-80. The results show that there is a negative relationship between poverty and mental health for all gender and age groups. Our analysis indicates that the impact of poverty on female’s mental status is greater early in life but males mental health suffer from poverty at mid-life and end of life. We conclude that the economic burdens against Iranians, which has changed their poverty status, have also exacerbated their mental health status.

Suggested Citation

  • Nima Mohamadnejad & Sajjad Faraji Dizaji, 2019. "The Poverty and Mental Health Association in Iran," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 23(3), pages 533-559, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:eut:journl:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:533
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: ftp://80.66.179.253/eut/journl/20193-1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eut:journl:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:533. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: [z.rahimalipour] (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fecutir.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.