Sports, Smoking and Drinking as Channels to Mitigate Depression: the Russian Experience

Student: Dmitry Karasev

Educational Programme: Joint HSE-NES Undergraduate Program in Economics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

In the paper we study channels to mitigate stress like sports, smoking, and drinking. They are studied using a Russian monitoring survey RLMS HSE. The paper utilizes ideas of the rational addiction model and the simultaneous equations model while also trying to tackle censorship of the individual data from RLMS HSE using Tobit regression. The study shows that in response to depression people with low income and good education tend to start smoking more, younger people with bad education tend to start drinking more, and elder people who have a job tend to start exercising more.

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