Feeling useless: the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession

Table 8 Robustness

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(6)	(7)	(8)
	Growth in last three years as IV	Construction employment at province level as IV	Average unemployment at cell level	Including inactive population	Province/year fixed effects	Including early waves	Including early waves and male time trend
Variables	mental disorder diagnosed by doctor					reported good health
Unemployed	0.306**	0.115	0.522**	0.316**	0.365***	− 0.283**	− 0.606***
(0.138)	(0.408)	(0.217)	(0.159)	(0.132)	(0.125)	(0.156)
Cell fixed effects	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year fixed effects	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Province/yearfixed effects	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	25,544	25,544	25,544	36,563	25,544	46,330	46,330

Robust standard errors clustered at the cell level in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Cells are defined by provinces, sex and a dummy for age < 40. Columns (1) to (6) include data for years 2006 and 2011. Columns (7) and (8) include years 2001, 2003, 2006, and 2011. Column (3) uses unemployment at the cell level from the EPA instead of the dummy for unemployment from the NHS. Column (2) controls for sex, dummy for age under 40, province and year fixed effects