Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129390 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2015:22
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper exploits a government initiative to analyze the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals with mild or moderate mental illness and multidisciplinary treatment (MDT) for individuals with pain in back and shoulders. We employ a propensity score matching approach to study the effects on sick leave, health care consumption and drug prescriptions. We find that CBT improved health and prevented sick leave for individuals who were not on sick leave when treatment was initiated but had no effect for individuals who were on sick leave when the treatment was initiated. MDT was a failure regardless of the individual's sick leave status at the time of treatment. MDT increased sick leave while having no long term impact on either health care visits or drug prescriptions.
Subjects: 
mental diseases
chronic pain
sick leave
propensity score matching
JEL: 
H43
I13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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