Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
February 15, 2025
Summary:
This paper explores the relationship between work-related autonomy and mental health. Using Understanding Society data from the United Kingdom, I assess the association between mental health and autonomy, defined across five different dimensions, using a range of different controls, including person and occupation fixed effects. I find low work-related autonomy consistently associates with poor mental health. The degree of selection bias on observable controls is small. Finally, I bound causal effects under assumptions about the degree of confoundedness of unobservables, and assess the possibility of reverse causality.
Published in
Economics and Human Biology
Volume
Volume: 56
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101469
ISSN
1570677
Subjects
#588558