Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth / Barbara Biasi, Michael S. Dahl, Petra Moser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biasi, Barbara.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dahl, Michael S.

Moser, Petra.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29422.

NBER working paper series no. w29422

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative jobs than the population. Healthy siblings of people with BD, however, are consistently more likely to work in creative jobs. We also show people in the top decile of parental wealth are seven times as likely to work in creative professions compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2021.