I'm really interested in how income affects health, which usually manifests itself in my bleeding-heart sort of way as trying to look at how reductions in poverty improve health. I can't help but wonder how this financial crisis mess (which, for the record, I barely understand) will impact health, for better or worse.
As my advisor might interject at this point, it's important to think about the mechanisms. Here's one: Mess --> stress from not dating (mediated by "coping mechanisms" like drinking and smoking). In other words, like this story.
Okay, so the theoretical model isn't actually that simple; I just wanted to link to that story. Also, I can't believe I just tried to draw a DAG on my blog. Any shred of coolness might be permanently lost. I really been thinking a lot lately about how to measure the effect of this whole mess with decent quantitative data, and I can't seem to think of much beyond these sort of anecdotes. Something else to think about in all that spare time.
As my advisor might interject at this point, it's important to think about the mechanisms. Here's one: Mess --> stress from not dating (mediated by "coping mechanisms" like drinking and smoking). In other words, like this story.
Okay, so the theoretical model isn't actually that simple; I just wanted to link to that story. Also, I can't believe I just tried to draw a DAG on my blog. Any shred of coolness might be permanently lost. I really been thinking a lot lately about how to measure the effect of this whole mess with decent quantitative data, and I can't seem to think of much beyond these sort of anecdotes. Something else to think about in all that spare time.
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