Replication Data for: The Emergence of the Poverty-Mental Health Gradient and the Great Pakistan Earthquake of 2005

Replication package for the forthcoming Journal of Development Economics paper by Andrabi, Daniels, and Das. Abstract. The relationship between poverty and mental health is of fundamental interest, both because of the equity implications of public investments in mental health and because mental health may be an important channel through which poverty traps persist. However consensus on this link has been difficult to establish, with substantial heterogeneity in the poverty-mental health gradient observed across studies. Taking the heterogeneity in the poverty-mental health gradient as our object of empirical interest, we use data collected four years after a devastating earthquake struck the Northern reaches of Pakistan to show that, in regions unaffected by the earthquake, there is no correlation between poverty and mental health. By contrast, a strong gradient between consumption poverty and mental health emerged in regions exposed to the earthquake. To the extent that this gradient can be interpreted causally, and we present a number of tests within the confines of our cross-sectional data in support of such a causal interpretation, our results suggest that associations between poverty and mental health gradient arise in populations subjected to large adverse shocks. The link between poverty and mental health is therefore crucially mediated by the extent of overall distress in the local ecology. Data. Five de-identified Stata .dta files (2,456 survey households; 10,538 mental-health respondents; 156,775 census individuals across 150 villages in four earthquake-affected districts of northern Pakistan: Abbottabad, Bagh, Mansehra, Muzaffarabad). Only variables actually referenced in the analysis do-files are retained. Codebooks (.xlsx) and integrity signatures (-sig.txt) ship with each .dta. Code. All Stata do-files that produce the paper's exhibits end-to-end (figures F1-F5, tables T1-T3, appendix A-D) plus vendored third-party Stata packages. Run do runfile.do; approximately 2 minutes on Stata 18 MP. Ethics. IRB exemption granted by Georgetown-MedStar IRB, study ID STUDY00002237. License. Code: MIT. Data: Restricted-access, governed by this deposit's access conditions.本文件为Andrabi、Daniels与Das合著的即将发表于《Journal of Development Economics》的论文复现包。 【摘要】贫困与心理健康的关联具有根本性研究价值，既源于心理健康公共投入的公平性考量，也因心理健康可能是贫困陷阱持续存在的重要传导渠道。然而学界此前难以就二者的关联达成共识，不同研究观测到的贫困-心理健康梯度（poverty-mental health gradient）存在显著异质性。本研究以该梯度的异质性为实证研究对象，利用巴基斯坦北部地区遭遇毁灭性地震四年后收集的数据开展分析，结果显示：在未受地震影响的区域，贫困与心理健康之间不存在相关性；与之形成鲜明对比的是，在受地震影响的区域，消费贫困与心理健康之间呈现出显著的梯度关联。若该梯度可被赋予因果解释——本研究在横截面数据框架内开展了多项检验以支持这一因果解读，本研究结果表明，贫困与心理健康的关联会在遭受重大负面冲击的人群中显现。因此，贫困与心理健康的关联本质上由当地整体窘迫程度所介导。 【数据】包含5份已去标识化的Stata .dta格式文件，覆盖巴基斯坦北部4个受地震影响的地区（阿伯塔巴德Abbottabad、巴格Bagh、曼塞拉Mansehra、穆扎法拉巴德Muzaffarabad）的150个村庄，涉及2456户受访家庭、10538名心理健康受访者、156775名普查个体。本数据集仅保留分析do文件中实际引用的变量。每份.dta文件均附带代码手册（.xlsx格式）与完整性校验签名文件（-sig.txt格式）。 【代码】包含所有可端到端生成论文所有展示内容（含图F1-F5、表T1-T3及附录A-D）的Stata do文件，以及已打包引入的第三方Stata扩展包。在Stata 18 MP环境下执行`runfile.do`命令即可完成全部运行，耗时约2分钟。 【伦理审查】本研究获得乔治敦-梅德斯塔伦理审查委员会（Georgetown-MedStar IRB）批准豁免伦理审查，研究编号为STUDY00002237。 【许可协议】代码：MIT开源许可。数据：受限访问，需遵循本存档的访问使用条款。