Social Media and Mental Health
[ABSTRACT AND THE PUBLISHER'S OWN PRINTED CITATION LINE READ IN FULL at the American Economic Association's article page, from which author order is taken. FULL TEXT NOT READ] Braghieri, L., Levy, R., & Makarin, A. (2022). 'Social Media and Mental Health.' American Economic Review, 112(11), 3660-3693. doi:10.1257/aer.20211218. THE STRONGEST QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL SUPPORT THE HARM CASE HAS. Design: generalised difference-in-differences on the staggered introduction of Facebook across United States colleges, 2004 to 2006, coupled with student mental-health survey data from the same years. Sample: United States college students. A National College Health Assessment response count appears in secondary coverage, was NOT verified at the publisher page, and IS NOT PRINTED HERE. RESULT, VERBATIM FROM THE PUBLISHED ABSTRACT: 'We find that the rollout of Facebook at a college had a negative impact on student mental health. It also increased the likelihood with which students reported experiencing impairments to academic performance due to poor mental health. Additional evidence on mechanisms suggests the results are due to Facebook fostering unfavorable social comparisons.' THE LOAD-BEARING LIMIT, WHICH IS ABOUT THE DESIGN AND NOT ABOUT THE WORK: undergraduates, not adolescents, and Facebook in 2004 to 2006, which is before the smartphone, before the front-facing camera, before algorithmic feeds and before Instagram. The technology the seed book's claim concerns had not been built. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE TO THE SEED BOOK'S AUTHOR: his own notes point readers to a published critique of this very study and then explain why he still accepts the design. That critique was NOT retrieved and this batch may not say what it argues.
[ABSTRACT AND THE PUBLISHER'S OWN PRINTED CITATION LINE READ IN FULL at the American Economic Association's article page, from which author order is taken. FULL TEXT NOT READ] Braghieri, L., Levy, R., & Makarin, A. (2022). 'Social Media and Mental Health.' American Economic Review, 112(11), 3660-3693. doi:10.1257/aer.20211218. THE STRONGEST QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL SUPPORT THE HARM CASE HAS. Design: generalised difference-in-differences on the staggered introduction of Facebook across United States colleges, 2004 to 2006, coupled with student mental-health survey data from the same years. Sample: United States college students. A National College Health Assessment response count appears in secondary coverage, was NOT verified at the publisher page, and IS NOT PRINTED HERE. RESULT, VERBATIM FROM THE PUBLISHED ABSTRACT: 'We find that the rollout of Facebook at a college had a negative impact on student mental health. It also increased the likelihood with which students reported experiencing impairments to academic performance due to poor mental health. Additional evidence on mechanisms suggests the results are due to Facebook fostering unfavorable social comparisons.' THE LOAD-BEARING LIMIT, WHICH IS ABOUT THE DESIGN AND NOT ABOUT THE WORK: undergraduates, not adolescents, and Facebook in 2004 to 2006, which is before the smartphone, before the front-facing camera, before algorithmic feeds and before Instagram. The technology the seed book's claim concerns had not been built. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE TO THE SEED BOOK'S AUTHOR: his own notes point readers to a published critique of this very study and then explain why he still accepts the design. That critique was NOT retrieved and this batch may not say what it argues.
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Braghieri, L., Levy, R., & Makarin, A. (2022). Social Media and Mental Health. American Economic Review, 112(11), 3660-3693. doi:10.1257/aer.20211218