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Study: Mental Illness Causes More Misery Than Anything Else
28 February 2017
“We keep on finding in every country that the mental health problems are the biggest causes of misery,” says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, who along with colleague Sarah Flèche analyzed happiness and satisfaction surveys from around the world. In a paper published in January in the journal Kyklos, Flèche and Layard found that the correlation between mental illness and misery was strong even when poverty and unemployment were controlled for.
Related publications
‘Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?’, Sarah Fléche and Richard Layard, Kyklos (International Review for Social Sciences), 70(1), February 2017