Gender, Health and Wellbeing

Mental health issues represent a considerable challenge for personal wellbeing, parenting and economic productivity.

Our research programme on gender, health and wellbeing covers two key areas:

A comprehensive analysis of the impacts of mental health treatment on human capital, economic productivity and intergenerational outcomes across countries.
The evolution of female careers with a focus on the role of workplace institutions and the interaction of careers with family responsibilities.

Project Contacts:

Sonia Bhalotra

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Natalia Zinovyeva

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Project News

Early antibiotics delivered lifelong economic gains - but only where opportunity followed

In the late 1930s and early 1940s pneumonia was the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for one in ten deaths. It remains the ...

Thursday 25 Jun 2026

Antidepressant treatment in childhood linked to better education, employment and mental health outcomes, new study finds

Large-scale research suggests carefully managed treatment can improve life chances, particularly for disadvantaged children

Wednesday 24 Jun 2026

Literary gender norms and household economics

Do the fields of economics and fiction overlap when analysing human behaviour? A new book demonstrates that the two areas have more in common than we might t...

Wednesday 15 Oct 2025

Why do boys and girls still choose different careers? New research points to childhood friendships

Despite decades of progress toward gender equality, boys and girls across the developed world continue to choose very different educational paths. Women rema...

Tuesday 5 Aug 2025

Economics CAGE Research Centre

Gender, Health and Wellbeing