COVID-19 and women’s health: Examining changes in mental health and fertility

Researchers have speculated that the economic and social consequences of COVID19 will harm women’s health. This paper tests this claim in the immediate aftermath of Mexico City’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order using call-center data. We use an event-study design to track calls for fertility decisions a...

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Autores principales: Silverio-Murillo, Adan, Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren, Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto, Rodríguez, Abel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8058508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33897073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109729
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description Researchers have speculated that the economic and social consequences of COVID19 will harm women’s health. This paper tests this claim in the immediate aftermath of Mexico City’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order using call-center data. We use an event-study design to track calls for fertility decisions and mental health. Our findings indicate that mental health worsened during the pandemic. Anxiety calls increased substantially, with the effect being most pronounced for those over 45. Calls related to abortion fell in number, while pregnancy calls remained stable. The abortion effect is most pronounced for women between 15 and 30 and those with a high school degree.
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spelling pubmed-80585082021-04-21 COVID-19 and women’s health: Examining changes in mental health and fertility Silverio-Murillo, Adan Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto Rodríguez, Abel Econ Lett Article Researchers have speculated that the economic and social consequences of COVID19 will harm women’s health. This paper tests this claim in the immediate aftermath of Mexico City’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order using call-center data. We use an event-study design to track calls for fertility decisions and mental health. Our findings indicate that mental health worsened during the pandemic. Anxiety calls increased substantially, with the effect being most pronounced for those over 45. Calls related to abortion fell in number, while pregnancy calls remained stable. The abortion effect is most pronounced for women between 15 and 30 and those with a high school degree. Elsevier B.V. 2021-02 2021-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8058508/ /pubmed/33897073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109729 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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