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Session

Egg-timer session: Environment and health
Location: Auditorium H
Session Chair: Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Universidad del Desarrollo

Presentation 1

Doom and Gloom? The Impact of Environmental News on Mental Health

Philip Carthy^1,2, Seraphim Dempsey^1,2,3

1: Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland; 2: Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 3: Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg

Does environmental media discourse impact our mental health? This paper examines the relationship between environment-related television news broadcasts and individual-level well-being in the United Kingdom. Relevant news content is identified using quantitative text analysis and recent advances in semi-supervised keyword-assisted topic modelling. The estimated prevalence of environment-related information is linked to a longitudinal household survey in which its associations with contemporaneously collected individual mental health measures can be tested. The empirical strategy relies on within-individual variation and is aided by continuously rolling data collection throughout the analysis period: 2014-2019. Our results do not suggest empirical support for the hypothesis that environmental news adversely affects mental health. We also find limited evidence that heterogeneity across socioeconomic or demographic groups masks an effect or that a potential impact is moderated by the overall sentiment of the relevant news broadcasts.