Research
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Health at Birth, Later Life Achievement, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage.” with Sarah Miller and Laura Wherry
We link detailed birth certificate records to data on hospitalizations in the first year of life, educational performance in high school, earnings, mortality, and public assistance use for all individuals born in California between 1960 and 2019, allowing us to observe measures of health at birth and long-run economic outcomes for over 26 million individuals. For a large subset of these individuals, we are also able to observe outcomes for their children, allowing us to trace the transmissions of health and advantage across generations. We analyze how variation in health endowment within twin pairs, and within siblings, predicts long run and intergenerational health and achievement.
"Labor Market Policies and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Substance Use" with Will Dow, Michael Reich and Chris Lowenstein
This study examines whether minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) reduce racial and ethnic disparities in a set of adverse mental health and substance use outcomes that have been increasing in prevalence over the past two decades. We use a quasi-experimental causal approach leveraging the substantial variation in state-level minimum wages and EITC supplements during the 2003-2019 period. We draw on data from two nationawide surveys that provide national and state-level representative estimates of mental health and substance use outcomes among US adults: the restricted-use files of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the National Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance System (BRFSS).
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Schess, Jaclyn, Lydia Bennett-Li, Richard Velleman, Urvita Bhatia, Alexander Catalano, Abhijeet Jambhale, Abhijit Nadkarni. “Alcohol policy in India: a scoping review.” PLOS ONE 18 no. 11 (2023): e0294392. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294392
Kumar, Sonali, Jaclyn Schess, Richard Velleman, Abhijit Nadkarni. “Stigma towards dependent drinking and its role on caregiving burden: A qualitative study from Goa, India.” Drug Alcohol Rev 41 no. 4 (2022): 778-786. 10.1111/dar.13438
Lee, Yong Yi, Dan Chisholm, Michael Eddelston, David Gunnell, Alexandra Fleischmann, Flemming Konradsen, Melanie Bertram, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Richard Brown, Damian Santomauro, Jaclyn Schess, Mark van Ommeren. “The cost-effectiveness of banning highly hazardous pesticides to prevent suicides due to pesticide self-ingestion across 14 countries: a model-based economic evaluation” The Lancet Psychiatry 9 no. 3 (2021): 291-300. 10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30493-9
Steele, Megan Carla Meurk, Jaclyn Schess et al. “Substance use patterns, help-seeking, and their associations among justice-involved young people in Queensland and Western Australia: A cross-sectional survey of 14-17 year olds.” Drug Alcohol Rev 40 no. 4 (2021): 617-626. 10.1111/dar.13238
Schess, Jaclyn, Sonali Kumar, Richard Velleman, Achyuta Adhvaryu, and Abhijit Nadkarni.“‘He was trapped in his own web’-- Dependent drinking as a poverty trap: Qualitative evidence from Goa, India.” Drug Alcohol Rev 36 no. 6 (2020): 713-720. 10.1111/dar.13082
Charlson, Fiona, Odille Chang, Ilisapeci Kubuabola, Jaclyn Schess, Catherine Latu, Ernest Hunter, Isimeli Tukana, Sefanaia Qaloewai and Rahul Shidhaye. “Implementation of the mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) within the Fijian Healthcare System: a mixed-methods evaluation.” Int J Ment Health Syst 13 (2019). 10.1186/s13033-019-0301-z
Schess, Jaclyn, Sandra Diminic, Emily Hielscher, Meredith Harris, Yong Yi Lee, Jan Kealton, and Harvey A. Whiteford. “Investment in Australian mental health carer services: how much and does it reflect evidence of effectiveness?” Australian Health Review 44 (2018): 104-113. 10.1071/ah18065
Schess, Jaclyn, Abhijeet Jambhale, Urvita Bhatia, Richard Velleman, Abhijit Nadkarni. “Policy environment impacting the societal harm caused by alcohol in India: protocol for a scoping review.” BMJ Open 8 no.12 (2018). 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020854
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Buchmueller, Thomas, Helen Levy, Jordan Rhodes and Jaclyn Schess. “The Healthy Michigan Plan 2018 Report on Uncompensated Care.” Michigan Department of Health (2019).
Meurk C, Steele M, Yap L, Jones J, Heffernan E, Davidson S, Nathan S, Donovan B, Sullivan L, Schess J, Harden S, Amin J, Butler T. “Changing Direction: mental health needs of justice-involved young people in Australia.” Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney. 2019.
Diminic, Sandra, Emily Hielscher, Yong Yi Lee, Meredith Harris, Jaclyn Schess, Jan Kealton and Harvey A. Whiteford. “The economic value of informal mental health caring in Australia: technical report.” Brisbane: The University of Queensland 2016.
PRESENTATIONS
Stewart, Hannah L. N., Jaclyn Schess, Erica Esposito, Anju Joy, Mariel Sander, Lydia Bennett-Li. "Research and Policy Self-Efficacy of Mental Health Advocates in the Global South." National Institutes of Mental Health, 12th Global Mental Health Research Without Borders Conference, October 2023.
Schess, Jaclyn, Yong Yi Lee, David Gunnell, Michael Eddelston, Alexandra Fleischmann, Daniel Chisholm. "Methodological insights in developing a model on the cost-effectiveness of a suicide prevention intervention restricting access to pesticides in India." International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Fourteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, March 2019.