Episode Description

This episode’s guest is Vahid, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics. His work is focused on the intersection between labor and health economics. In this episode, he presents his working paper on childhood mental health effects of early life exposure to paternal job loss. The discussion sheds light on a critical aspect of job loss and how this scenario can hit harder on families by emotional and psychological challenges.  

Guest: Vahid Moghani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus School of Economics.

Host: Fanny Tallgren

Timestamps:

(06:02) Introduction to the study: job loss and effects on people

(10:14) Details on the dataset used (e.g., sample characteristics)

(21:40) Main findings of the study related to children’s medication use

(29:51) Reflections on policy implications

(35:50) Causal random forest as an alternative method to assess heterogeneity

(42:18) Recommendations on the use of AI in the scientific field