Economics of Mental Health and Homelessness

Harvard FAS

How does society influence mental health? How does mental health influence the economy? How do economic theory and econometrics illuminate, and obfuscate, the challenges of mental illness? Mental health has quickly become one of the most important topics in global policymaking. Yet the links between influential fields of social science – especially economics – and behavioral medicine remain underdeveloped. This course will first explore the frontier of concepts in psychopathology, including…