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S6 Ep33: Improving mental health as a route out of poverty

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:26:13
Publish Date: 2023-08-04 10:00:00
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From the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum at the Paris School of Economics. One route out of poverty is to change external conditions: provide assets, jobs, healthcare. But can we also treat depression, or low self-esteem, or low aspirations, and does that help poverty reduction? Dean Karlan of Northwestern University tells Tim Phillips what new research is telling us – and what we don’t yet know. 
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