Job Market Paper by alumnus Roger Prudon published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
The paper ‘Is Delayed Mental Health Treatment Detrimental to Employment?' by alumnus Roger Prudon (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics. The research paper was initially the job market paper of Roger.
In this study, he finds that each additional month of waiting time reduces a patient’s likelihood of staying employed by 2 percentage points. The consequences are even more severe for individuals with lower educational attainment or a migration background, further increasing existing inequalities. These negative impacts translate into at least 300 million of unemployment-related costs to the Dutch society each year.
The key findings are also featured in The Guardian (May 21, 2025).
Article citation
Roger Prudon, ‘Is Delayed Mental Health Treatment Detrimental to Employment?', The Review of Economics and Statistics, doi.org/10.1162/rest.a.257
About
Roger is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Economics of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the interplay between (mental) health, employment and disability insurance.
Before joining Lancaster, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Retirement and Disability Policy Research Center at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER), United States. He obtained his PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of research fellows Pierre Koning and Paul Muller. Roger is also an alumnus of Tinbergen Institute's research master's program in Economics.