Can Destigmatizing Mental Health Increase Willingness to Seek Help? Experimental Evidence from Nepal
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Keywords
mental health; stigma; prejudice; seeking help; celebrity; Nepal;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2024-08-26 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-EXP-2024-08-26 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2024-08-26 (Health Economics)
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