Mental health and abortions among young women: time-varying unobserved heterogeneity, health behaviors, and risky decisions
年轻女性的心理健康与人工流产：时变未观测异质性、健康行为和风险决策
In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpatient records from Sweden, we apply a novel grouped fixed-effects estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015) to allow for time-varying unobserved heterogeneity. We show that the positive association obtained from standard estimators shrinks to zero once we control for grouped unobserved…