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

Table 9 Other health outcomes

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Variables	Chronic backpain diagnosed by doctor	Chronic headache diagnosed by doctor	Heart disease diagnosed by doctor	Stroke diagnosed by doctor	Takes medicines
Unemployed	0.275	0.254*	0.0863	− 0.00993	0.500**
	(0.230)	(0.147)	(0.0530)	(0.0191)	(0.233)
Sample mean	0.236	0.107	0.036	0.006	0.578
Observations	25,544	25,544	25,544	25,544	25,544

Robust standard errors clustered at the cell level in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. All regressions control for cell and year fixed effects. Cells are defined by provinces, sex and a dummy of age < 40. Sample: waves 2006 and 2011