We estimate the treatment effect of UC on the mental health and labour supply of the partner, interactions between the parent and child and on the child’s mental health (where a partner or child exist). [...] To identify the treatment effect of UC on the mental health of participants, we exploit a stag- gered roll-out across areas of the UK between 2013–2018 which started in the North of England and slowly moved across the whole country. [...] We combine the eligibility variable with an indicator for unemployment in a panel data model across individuals, to identify the effect of entering unemployment whilst satisfying the eligibility criteria for UC in the same month of the survey. [...] Instead, the purpose of our analysis is to estimate whether the UC welfare reform can affect the treatment effects from 12Eligibility for UC is defined in Section 3.1 and takes the value of 1 if the individual lives in a roll-out region and meets the eligibility criteria in that time period. [...] 5.4 Sensitivity and heterogeneity In this section, we test for the sensitivity of our benchmark estimates to the assumptions of treat- ment effect homogeneity across time in the staggered roll-out; and to the sensitivity of the set of controls.
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