Talk Therapy and Human Capital in Adolescence: Evidence from a Low-Resource Setting
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Keywords
education; teen mental health; therapy; Nepal;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2025-06-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2025-06-16 (Health Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2025-06-16 (Neuroeconomics)
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