Exposure to risks and long-term psychological well-being afterward

时间：2022年3月9日（周三）10：00-11：30

地点：承泽园246教室

主持人：（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、雷晓燕、张丹丹、易君健
       （经院）秦雪征、石菊、王耀璟、袁野、Kevin Devereux

主讲人：马超（东南大学经济管理学院） 

论文摘要： 

Exposure to risks can negatively affect human psychological well-being. However, little is known about whether those effects are persistent and how individuals cope with the risk. In this paper, we focus on SARS-Cov-1, the first global pandemic in the 21st century, and its long-term effects on mental health and behavior. We use individuals’ life history information from a large-scale national survey (N = 12,601) to causally evaluate how exposure to pandemic risk affects long-term psychological well-being. We find that exposure to local pandemic risk, i.e., local deaths due to the pandemic, significantly reduced people’s mental health 12 years later. Consistent with the belief-based account of depression, exposure to pandemic risk resulted in more pessimistic beliefs about the future and survival probability, and people reduced savings and increased hedonic consumption, suggesting a “carpe diem” effect.

主讲人简介：

马超博士现任东南大学经济管理学院副教授，博士生导师，东南大学“至善青年学者”。他是南京大学博士，耶鲁大学公共卫生学院博士后。长期从事健康经济学、健康政策与管理等方面的研究工作。以第一作者身份在Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,《经济学（季刊）》等刊物上发表学术论文多篇。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目1项、青年项目1项。