TABLE 3.
Mental healthcare services and financial distress (Chile, 2020).
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | Treatment | Medication | ||||||||||
| Unemployment | 0.0384** | 0.0196 | 0.0210 | 0.0258* | 0.0139 | 0.0022 | 0.0013 | 0.0029 | 0.0323* | 0.0190 | 0.0247* | 0.0271** |
| (0.0188) | (0.0144) | (0.0134) | (0.0133) | (0.0165) | (0.0119) | (0.0111) | (0.0109) | (0.0187) | (0.0142) | (0.0135) | (0.0133) | |
| Female | 0.0261** | 0.0196* | 0.0229** | 0.0212** | 0.0362*** | 0.0251*** | 0.0270*** | 0.0271*** | 0.0302** | 0.0182* | 0.0180* | 0.0165* |
| (0.0131) | (0.0106) | (0.0099) | (0.0099) | (0.0127) | (0.0096) | (0.0092) | (0.0091) | (0.0130) | (0.0105) | (0.00987) | (0.0098) | |
| Age | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | −0.0001 | −0.0001 | −0.0005 | −0.0006* | −0.0006** | −0.0006** | 0.0006 | 0.0002 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 |
| (0.0004) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | (0.0002) | (0.0002) | (0.0004) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | (0.0003) | |
| Migrant | −0.0144 | −0.0051 | −0.0102 | −0.0099 | 0.0427 | 0.0233 | 0.0258 | 0.0261 | −0.0311 | −0.0084 | −0.0113 | −0.0112 |
| (0.0221) | (0.0195) | (0.0173) | (0.0169) | (0.0316) | (0.0229) | (0.0218) | (0.0211) | (0.0191) | (0.0193) | (0.0171) | (0.0167) | |
| Children in household | −0.0046 | 0.0075 | 0.0029 | 0.0036 | −0.0137 | −0.0015 | −0.00545 | −0.0045 | −0.0189 | −0.0020 | −0.0023 | −0.0015 |
| (0.0135) | (0.0117) | (0.0111) | (0.0110) | (0.0129) | (0.0107) | (0.0102) | (0.0099) | (0.0128) | (0.0110) | (0.0106) | (0.0103) | |
| Household head | 0.0219 | 0.0163 | 0.0224** | 0.0225** | 0.0157 | 0.0087 | 0.0110 | 0.0108 | 0.0001 | −0.0006 | 0.0022 | 0.0024 |
| (0.0138) | (0.0111) | (0.0107) | (0.0106) | (0.0129) | (0.0099) | (0.0095) | (0.0095) | (0.0139) | (0.0109) | (0.0103) | (0.0102) | |
| ln (1 + Income pre-pandemic) | 0.0018 | 0.0028 | 0.0031 | 0.0027 | 0.0023 | 0.0029 | 0.0032* | 0.0030* | 0.0071*** | 0.0064*** | 0.0059*** | 0.0056*** |
| (0.0036) | (0.0024) | (0.0020) | (0.0020) | (0.0031) | (0.0020) | (0.0017) | (0.0017) | (0.0018) | (0.0013) | (0.0011) | (0.0010) | |
| Mortgage loans | 0.0239 | 0.0172 | 0.0302** | |||||||||
| (0.0146) | (0.0137) | (0.0153) | ||||||||||
| Consumer debt | 0.0234** | 0.0078 | 0.0275*** | |||||||||
| (0.0097) | (0.0092) | (0.0106) | ||||||||||
| Basic goods and services | 0.0098** | 0.0032 | 0.0053 | |||||||||
| (0.0047) | (0.0037) | (0.0045) | ||||||||||
| Lack of savings | 0.0172* | −0.0013 | 0.0116 | |||||||||
| (0.0092) | (0.0089) | (0.0100) | ||||||||||
| Observations | 1,201 | 1,736 | 1,919 | 1,947 | 1,201 | 1,736 | 1,919 | 1,947 | 1,201 | 1,736 | 1,919 | 1,947 |
| R-squared | 0.030 | 0.025 | 0.023 | 0.021 | 0.033 | 0.031 | 0.027 | 0.028 | 0.044 | 0.026 | 0.022 | 0.021 |
| Education level | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Region fixed effects | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
Note: This table reports estimates from a linear probability model (LPM) of the probability of utilizing a range of mental healthcare services against the independent variables. We measure utilization of mental healthcare services with a set of indicator variables that capture a new diagnosis, new treatment, and/or new medication (for a mental health condition), after the start of the pandemic (1 = yes, 0 = no). All regressions control for education and region dummy variables. Heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors are in parentheses. ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.